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Ekos not supported with Linux Mint 17.2 ? - by: ptitjack

August 1, 2015, 1:53 am
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Hi all,

I am working with Linux Mint 17.2 and installed Kstars with Indi libraries.
I can't find any Ekos application in the kstars menu.
Is it possible to get Ekos working with Mint 17.2 ?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

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Jacques
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Virtual Address Space AsiCam - by: Horand

June 21, 2015, 1:00 pm
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Hi,

I wanted to use a ASI120MC-S as GuidingCam with ekos and indiserver. The indiserver (+3rdparty) should run on a Banana Pi with Arch Linux and is build from the latest svn sources. Guiding and everything else runs quite well for the first few minutes, but then the Asi cam hangs on Exposure done, Downloading Image. I monitored the virtual memory used by indi_asi_ccd and running a few times it always hang a little bit over 3GB virt memory used, which I think is the maximum the 32bit Arm architecture can address.
At the moment the Asi cam runs directly on my Sony Vaio (64bit Ubuntu 15.04, Ekos and server installed from PPA) and with now 3,5k continuous Frames in the focus tab the indi_asi_ccd uses 29GB virtual memory adding 8MB for each new picture.
As I'm new to indi I'm not quite sure where I have to look in the source code to free the used memory and make continuous exposures and guiding possible.

cs

Markus
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Stepper focusser directly from Raspberry - by: mrpraline

June 26, 2015, 12:07 pm
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Hi,

I recently mounted a cheap stepper motor like belt drive to my Baader steeldrive focuser. It's the BYJ28-48 motor that comes with a driver board and can be bought at many places for a few dollars. Whith the driver board I can run it nicely with a python script directly from 4 of the the Raspberry Pi 2's GPIO pins.
My plan is to drive the motor via indi drectly from the Raspberry 2, in addition to the other astro hardware. It means some software will have to be written and my plan is to make this my little contribution to INDI astronomy.

As I see it there are some ways to achieve what I want:
  • I could write an indi driver from scratch that directly manages the GPIO pins to drive the motor
  • I could run a separate (C/python) process that talks to indi via a FIFO and emulates some existing focuser that has a simple to understand protocol
  • I could do something inbetween

At first site the second option seems to be the easiest to implement, however I'm not sure which focuser would be the easiest to emulate. Also I don't know what the implications of this approach will be on the performance of the raspberry.

However I may also be totally on the wrong path here and as I am not very experienced in software writing I would greatly appreciate any comments before I delve deeper into this project.
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TinyAstro - ARM LInux with Kstars/INDI [Download] - by: max

June 17, 2015, 7:23 am
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TinyAstro is a Linux system for ametuer astronomer which install in ARM
mini PC.With INDI, Kstars/Ekos, OpenSkyImager, Lin_guider, Open
PHD2, TinyAstro will support a large rang of hardware.

ta_kstars.png


ta_lg.png


ta_osi.png


ta_phd2.png


With your mobile phone or tablet, you can control your gears without a computer.

Thank you knro for the great work on Kstars and INDI to make this happen.

[ Hareware support ]
1.RK3188+AP6210 or rtl8192cu
2.Odroid C1+rtl8192cu
3.Odroid U3+rtl8192cu
4.Raspberry Pi 2 + rtl8192cu

the wifi chip is used as an access point

[ Customize ]
you can fork the build script from github and customize the system
github.com/trlsmax/TinyAstro

[ Download ]
下载
RK3188
pan.baidu.com/s/1c0czNYo
Raspberry Pi 2
pan.baidu.com/s/1ntsw1df
Odroid C1
pan.baidu.com/s/1jGrM7PG
Odroid U3
pan.baidu.com/s/1qWOKsHm

[ How to download from baidu ]

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baidu_2.png
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Ekos, minumum exposure time - by: carlos

May 28, 2015, 3:22 pm
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Hello,

I'm trying to create a few bias frames, but encountering a problem with the CCD exposure setup.
I'm using a Atik460 , which supports exposures down to 0.001.
If I try to enter 0.001 , the ekos gui resets it to 0.01 . No matter if 0.002 0.003 , everything below 0.01 is set to 0.01
It doesn't seems to be a driver problem, see here:
indilib.org/forum/ccds-dslrs/244-minimum...-atik-314l.html#4290

can somebody help ?

thank you
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FS-2 won't slew - by: Herrhausen

August 6, 2015, 4:13 pm
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Hi, I'm currently re-activating equipment that was stowed away for a couple of years. Got a FS-2 (V1.21) control box and an Alt AD-5 mount. Kstars and Stellarium both have the same problem, SLEW doesn't work. Crosshairs move along nicely when I move the mount using the FS-2 handbox though. As soon as I try to SLEW in KStars or Stellarium, the FS-2 displays "schwenke" (=slew) for maybe 1/10th of a second and then nothing happens. I can repeat that as often as I want. All conncections are OK, INDI says everything was OK, too.

I remember the same problem had occurred many years ago when I first tried INDI. At the time I made a slight modification to the source code after which INDI worked perfectly. I had forwarded my modification to the maintainer but somehow the old version must have made its way back. Unfortunately I can't remember as to what the modification was.

Are there any other FS-2 users out there who can confirm my problem? Many thanks for replies.

CS
Alfred
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Polar Alignment tool not waiting for mount to stop - by: seanhoughton

August 7, 2015, 12:44 pm
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I'm unable to use the polar alignment tool because the second exposure is always taken before the mount stops moving. The initial exposure is fine, but the second is always just streaks. I'm still working on getting the development environment working so I can debug this kind of thing, but after looking at the code I can see two cases where this could happen:

1. It may be that there is a race condition if the telescope's "isSlewing()" doesn't return true immediately after a "slew()" command is issued. If this was true the alignment state would transition directly to taking the second image without waiting. This seems unlikely since the Telescope::Slew state is set immediately in Ekos and then sent to the "SLEW" switch. If the switch was somehow

2. There isn't any error checking on the Slew() result, so it's possible that an error condition while requesting the slew happened silently. There are a lot of places that return "false" without any error logging. However, the slew does actually happen which is why I'm seeing streaks so this might not be it.

I haven't tried running any of the other lx200 drivers yet. I'm using a Losmandy Gemini 2 plugged into an RPi running indiserver. It's all connected over wired Ethernet to the Ekos VM running in VirtualBox on a Mac. I tried to make it as complicated as possible!

Any debugging ideas would be welcome.
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Fitsviewer histogram autostretch - by: MtoAstro

August 10, 2015, 2:33 am
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While preparing things for the coming dark nights, I noted that the fitsviewer is not autostretching the images while focusing (focus module -> start framing).
Is anybody else having this issue? I seem to recall that it used to autostretch before, or am I mistaken?

I'm imaging with a Canon DSLR (1000D)
Running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 with the latest Kstars/Indi/Ekos updates from the ppa.
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Trouble with QSI camera - by: yphrate

August 10, 2015, 11:13 am
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Hello,
i try to use my QSI640 on ubuntu/mate 15.04, i have install Kstar/Ekos by ppa.
When i try to connect in Indi, i have this message: "Error:put_Connected(true) failed. 0xc8:Cannot open camera connection."

If someone have an issue.
Thanks
maxime
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Ekos / Motion Control ~ missing custom slew rate - by: Gonzothegreat

August 10, 2015, 12:43 pm
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I seem to be missing the option to pick Custom speed in the drop menu "Slew Rate" under "Motion Control" in Ekos.
Running the latest Ekos and Indiserver to this date.

As it been removed?
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Astroberry Distro - by: Kaczorek

May 10, 2015, 3:29 am
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Astroberry Distro is ready to use SD card image for controlling your astronomical observatory.
It enables you to remote control your mount, telescope, focuser, ccd and more.
It has been prepared for all of you who do not want to play with installation and compilation. Instead it provides ready to use system, which is fully functional just after flashing your SD card.

You can find it here.
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yet more trouble with the QHY5 - by: Gonzothegreat

August 11, 2015, 2:02 pm
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Just installed a raspberry pi with raspbian, standard install.
plugged in the QHY5 (works fine on my Odroid C1 and worked before on that RPI), and I get this :




yes I'm using the latest QHY driver.

No idea what's going on this time :(
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dual Atik - by: Gonzothegreat

August 12, 2015, 12:43 am
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To my surprise last night, I've plugged back my Atik Titan (if you do a search for Titan here, you'll know that I had great troubles with it... lol) and it worked quite fine :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Now, I do have a 314L+ as the primary CCD, and was thinking of using the Titan as a guider as the QHY5 is getting on my nerves.
How can I run two Atik CCD? Is there a trick with the indiserver command?
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Moravian G3-11000C1FW indi driver - by: sarkkipas

April 27, 2015, 11:49 am
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Could anyone compile a indi driver for Moravian ccd cameras with internal filterwheel, more accurately Moravian G3-1100.
Moravian has a driver for linux to download, but i think its not for indi. Thou it has all the needed information for driver, i don't know how to do it.

Link to driver download provided, and also the driver files as attachment.

www.gxccd.com/cat?id=148&lang=409

File Attachment:

File Name: libmiccd-0.7-i386.tar.gz
File Size: 260 KB
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Time lapse astrophotography with INDI/Python issue - by: eboily

August 15, 2015, 11:43 am
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Hi,

There is a tutorial listed on the front page titled 'Time lapse astrophotography with INDI & Python' where Marcus Degenkolbe describes how to install and use the Python wrapper for INDI. I exactly followed the instructions to download, compile and install the wrappers and I get the following error message when starting the client:




It seems that the BaseDevice class doesn't have the method lastMessage() defined.

Any idea someone?

I run the Ekos VM 1.3 with all software updates applied.

Thanks!

- Edouard
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Ekos without KDE possible? - by: gerardvs

August 18, 2015, 1:22 pm
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Hi All,

Since this is my first post here I would start with a great “thank you” to the developper(s) of Indi and Ekos. You are doing a really great job and after many years I finally can and will leave the windows platform for astrophotograpy.

At the moment I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 (x86), INDI 1.1.0 and Kstars 2.3.0.
I had (or have) issues with KDE in combination of the NVIDIA graphics adaptor. Crashes of Ekos are still present and therefore I would like to know if KDE is really a requirement for running Ekos.

Can anyone clarify if it is possible to run Ekos without the (buggy) KDE interface?

Thanks in advance,
--Gerard
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Raspberry image download duration? - by: pauledd

August 19, 2015, 2:46 am
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Is this normal that it take ~1 minute to preview fits image from my DSLR? From the point "Exposure done, downloading image..." it needs 50 seconds for the image to arrive in the fitsviewer, previewing/sequence native image takes ~ 30 seconds. I guess this is due the image conversion is done on the raspi, cant this be done on the client side?
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Parking eqmod - by: vtanguay

July 26, 2015, 10:03 pm
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Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me with the following. I thought that if I parked eqmod, it would remember it's position next time I fire everything off. This does not seem to be the case.

Couple of notes about my setup:

Boot up the raspberry pi and other devices. Start indi server. Launch kstars and ekos. Start indi and connect devices. The mount had been parked so it is still parked. But kstars thinks it is pointing to ncp (I've defined my park position to be all horizontal to fit in the observatory). I have to manually set the scope near ncp and then I can do my things. When I park, it does park it in the correct position.

I thought if I parked it, it would not only remember that it is parked but also where it is parked.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Vince
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Qhy5ii - by: vtanguay

July 30, 2015, 7:22 am
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Hi all,
I've seen a lot of discussion on qhy CCDs here but was wondering if anyone has successfully gotten the qhy5-ii to work with indi on a raspberry pi? I could sure use some help.
Thanks
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Ekos not supported with Linux Mint 17.2 ? - by: ptitjack

August 1, 2015, 1:53 am
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Hi all,

I am working with Linux Mint 17.2 and installed Kstars with Indi libraries.
I can't find any Ekos application in the kstars menu.
Is it possible to get Ekos working with Mint 17.2 ?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

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Jacques
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