Hi guys! Now that the camera situation is mostly handled, I'm getting ready to start version 2 of my telescope mount system and wanted to see if I could get a jump start on the code.
I've been using an arduino mega and dc/encoder motors for a long time but motor lope makes them too unstable for high magnification AP such as planetary. I've decided to make the switch to steppers and figured I might as well ditch the redundant and unreliable Arduino controller at the same time opting instead to use the gpio on the rpi already running on the mount. (Thanks to Kaczorek for pointing this out previously) I'm currently in the parts/info gathering phase.
No sense re-inventing the wheel, (or in this case the EQ controls) if someone has already laid the ground work. One problem i'm head scratching about is that the mount drivers I've been using are for serial connections to existing commercial mounts.
Does anyone have a link to some rpi code that interfaces mount RA and DEC steppers to indi directly using an Rpi/gpio for control?
I've been using an arduino mega and dc/encoder motors for a long time but motor lope makes them too unstable for high magnification AP such as planetary. I've decided to make the switch to steppers and figured I might as well ditch the redundant and unreliable Arduino controller at the same time opting instead to use the gpio on the rpi already running on the mount. (Thanks to Kaczorek for pointing this out previously) I'm currently in the parts/info gathering phase.
No sense re-inventing the wheel, (or in this case the EQ controls) if someone has already laid the ground work. One problem i'm head scratching about is that the mount drivers I've been using are for serial connections to existing commercial mounts.
Does anyone have a link to some rpi code that interfaces mount RA and DEC steppers to indi directly using an Rpi/gpio for control?