How does EKos know the current position of the focuser - by: Steve Cohen
Does it do some kind of query to the focuser device to learn the present position? Is there some action that can force this to happen? Or does it just record where it last was and imagine that it's...
View ArticlePolar alignment crashing in sm app on android latest release - by: Chris Duthie
Polar alignment crashing in sm app on android latest release
View ArticleApparent inconsistencies in Analyze graphs - by: Michael Evans
Hi everyone System is Stellarmate OS 1.8.1 running on an rpi4 and using VNC to access from Macbook. First, I would like to say everything is working and I am getting good results. My concerns are with...
View ArticleINDI driver "indi_toupcam_ccd" crashed! - by: Thomas Jäger
Hello, I got a new CMOS (Omegon vtec571 = ToupTek ATR3CMOS26000KMA). The INDI Touptek (2.1) driver crashed immediately. I have generated a logfile. What can I do? Thomas
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Esatto 2" not connecting to ekos - by: William Bendick
Hello I am trying to connect some astro equiptment to kstars through ekos and indi on a fresh install of astroberry on a rpi4. Most of it is connecting fine but I am not able to connect to my 2" Esatto...
View ArticleMele Quieter & Windows - No Pi? - by: David Diaz
Hello is it possible to run Stellarmate on a Mele Quieter 4 running Win 11 on the Scope, and run the Stellarmate ‘remote’ program on a tablet or phone, having no Pi hardware at all? Thanks! David Diaz
View ArticleThe state of Astroberry - by: Aaron Morris
I was wondering if it might be time to add a sticky post to the Astroberry forum to recommend not using Astroberry for new deployments. I really do appreciate all of the effort Radek put into...
View ArticleSpecific parameter for flat screen in an EKOS sequence - by: Cedric62
Good morning, Is it possible to indicate a light intensity value in an EKOS sequence? Knowing that this property exists in the hardware settings of indi. Thanks in advance
View ArticleUse INDI driver for the FLI ML4240 camera - by: Ed Mullen
IDEX is shutting down FLI and not providing any support for customers who bought their cameras. The FLI driver that came with the camera has been acting up and not performing correctly so I am looking...
View ArticleMeridian Flip woes - by: justin Whitaker
Hi All, I'm running Kstars/Ekos via an Astroberry installation (which I understand is quite outdated) with an EQ6-R Mount, using EQ-Mod, and have a torrid time with MF. I have it set to flip at 3...
View ArticleStellarmate on Multiple Raspberry Pis - by: justin Whitaker
Hi, I'm looking to move away from Astroberry and am torn between the AstroArch offering or stellarmate. While I don't mind paying for a solution, with 2 scopes running, I begrudge paying twice. So If I...
View ArticleMoving Stellarmate OS to an NVME SSD - by: Peter Kennett
I have a new Raspberry Pi5 with an M.2 NVME SSD adapter. Does anyone have instructions to move my entire Stellarmate OS that is running well on the Pi5 over to the SSD drive so I can boot from that? Peter
View ArticleWiFi issues on Pi5. How to log? - by: Steve Cohen
I seem to have solved most of my port instability issues. They seem to have been power-related. Turned out my idea of powering the Pi using a 100W USB-C port on my power supply was a bad one. Instead,...
View ArticleUsing post capture sequence scripts for EAA / live stacking - by: RubberToe
Does anyone here do EAA through kstars this way? I think you can feed images to siril that way. There's other linux based live stacker apps that can monitor a directory as well. I figure you can use...
View ArticlePossible bug with indi_celestron_gps PEC Upload / Monitoring - by: Marco
Hi, when experimenting with PEC on a CGEM DX, I found out two behaviors that might be bugs, but I wanted to ask if any of this is expected 1) This mount was never trained before. I recorded 12 periods,...
View ArticleStellarMate on Mele Quieter 3Q -> WiFi speed fix - by: Jens
If anybody is facing the same problem: after installing StellarMate on a Mele Quieter 3Q, I found out, that WiFi speed of the device was only 802.11g (54mbit/s). The WiFi hardware of the mele supports...
View ArticleTracking satellites with ekos scheduler in kstars - by: Sandeep Kumar
Hi everyone! I am new to using Kstars/INDI and to this forum as well. So at my uni, we have an observatory which we want to use to track satellites according to a schedule using "Ekos scheduler" in...
View ArticleRun Kstars on remote PC or from Stellarmate? - by: Tony Healey
Up to now I've been running Kstars / Ekos on my desktop PC and connecting to Stellarmate via the remote connection setup. However, what are the pros and cons of running Kstars on Stellarmate instead? I...
View ArticleASI120MM configured, connected, but NOT selected? - by: Paul Nixon
I am new to AstroArch (long-time Astroberry/Ekos/Kstars user). I just received an XAGYL motorized filter wheel yesterday that I am trying to test. I figured I'd test it with my ASI120MM as my test CCD....
View ArticleEstimate required disk space - by: Richard Francis
I have just spent several hours trying to figure out why the cal frames I'm taking end up on disk with zero bytes. Eventually I discovered that it was because the target volume had run out of space...
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ASI EAF focus motor recently throwing errors in the indi panel and is...
I've been successfully using ekos and indi to control my ZWO eaf focus motors, I have three of them. One of them has worked fine for three other sessions and is fairly new, but is now throwing errors...
View ArticleKstars not able to install add-ons - by: Boris Stromar
Hi all, I have a problem with Kstars on my new Win 11 laptop - I'm unable to install any additional data or catalogs. It reports "file not found" but it seems the data is downloaded somewhere. Maybe I...
View ArticleWuestion - by: Peter Kennett
Question about PHD2 installed on Stellarmate: I like the internal autoguider but decided to try PHD2 as a friend of mine told me that PHD2 can work with my rotator and correct the guide calibrations...
View ArticleNo driver for Star Adventurer Gti - by: Arie Nouwen
I'm using Astroberry (latest version) on a Raspberry Pi 4B. I've connected two CCD's cameras (ZWO mini and PlayerOne Neptune II) and they work correct. Problem is my mount: a Star Adventure GtI of...
View ArticlePyINDI client fails to build - by: Akarsh
Has anyone managed to build `pyindi-client` recently against the stable 2.0.0 release? I'm getting a bunch of errors that I don't have enough context to understand / debug: ``` $ python setup.py...
View ArticleStellarMate App: Invalid username or password - by: Peter Möstl
Hi, I purchased StellarMate OS from the website a few days befor and installed StellarMate App for Android v2.6.95. Then I followd the instruction on...
View ArticleGPS using UART mode? - by: Paul Nixon
I'm coming from Astroberry on Raspberry Pi4 and use UART GPS. I have a Pi4 on the bench with AstroArch installed and am wondering if it supports GPS UART mode and, if so, how do I tell AstroArch about...
View ArticleHow to register new Stellarmate on a computer - by: Steve Cohen
Just got my brand-new Stellarmate. I'd heard the UI was bad but that doesn't even begin to describe the user interface on an IPhone. I've heard it's better on a tablet, but on an IPhone it's absolutely...
View ArticleHelp with seeing new NVMe SD drive on Stellarmate - by: Peter Kennett
I just added a new NVMe drive to my Raspberry Pi5 (which is running Stellarmate OS). I just want to use this as extra storage space. I enabled the PCIe function by editing /boot/firmware/config.txt as...
View ArticleHow to Prevent Camera Abort When Tracking Fails w/ PHD2 - by: Robert Miller
I'm attempting to take a long spectral image using PHD2 as a guide. Every so often you'll get the message that PHD2 has lost contact with the camera. Why I don't know. Sometimes, not all the times, the...
View ArticleOrion SSAG Pro Guide Camera images are white even with a closed cap. - by:...
I recently purchased and set up stellarmate on my RPi4 and my optical trains are Canon 5D MarkIV and Orion SSAG Pro as guider. I took some guide camera shots and they came fully exposed as a white...
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get/set GAIN and OFFSET in camera via Python bindings - by: Charles Wright
Hi all, It's been a while since I've written some Python to access INDI devices. I have a script that works great for a CCD (KAF8300). Now I have a CMOS camera (IMX571), and I'd like to...
View ArticleHow to configgure power ports on Stellarmate Pro without using the app? - by:...
I don't own a tablet. The app will load onto an IPhone but the user experience there is too miserable to be used. It was never my intent to use the app, as the promotional materials mentioned that it...
View ArticleSBIG driver crash - by: Mahayarrahh Livingstone
SBIG CCD driver crashes on startup. Stellarmate X. SBIG ST 8300 camera. Everything is updated.
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AstroArch slow compared w/Astroberry?? - by: Paul Nixon
I am trying to adopt AstroArch for RPi4. I basically created the image, booted, did updates, and am running. I feel I have something misconfigured because using VNC with AstroArch in one window and...
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Why wont EKOS show AAG Cloudwatcher data when my Pegasus powerbox is...
I have both AAG Cloudwatcher and a Pegasus Powerbox - both connect fine in INDI. But EKOS (version 3.7) is only showing data for the Powerbox (Temp, Humidity and Dew Point). The Cloudwatcher shows...
View Articlenew ASI220mm config, won't expose for less than 1 second? - by: Walter Knesel
Hi, I bought an ASI220mm for my zwo standard size oag recently. I am trying to test it in daylight to see that it works and focus it a bit. Using it in my real system with ekos. I upgraded stellarmate...
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Scheduler doesnt take dawn offset into account - by: JuergenN
Hi all, due to the short nights in summer I take pictures until the sun reached 15° under horizon. To get that I change the dusk and dawn offset. In yesterdays session I changed dawn offset to +0.5h....
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Guide camera simulator pixel size is incorrectly set - by: John Pillar
Dear Kstars/Ekos - just a small thing - I’m trying to use he camera simulators while I work through mechanical issues on my Mount - and have found that the guide camera simulator is stuck with an...
View ArticleInstallation issues - by: Mika Suoperä
Hi everyone, I am running in to issues when trying to install Indi from the stable ppa on ubuntu 24.04 LTS. I have added the repository and such as per instructions for ubuntu. When I am trying to run...
View ArticleCamera errors after last upgrade - by: Scorpy Dasgupta
For almost a year, I have been running indiserver/ekos without any issues to drive a Player One Uranus-C uncooled camera (plus a Star Adventurer GTi mount). The camera is connected to a Raspberry Pi 4...
View ArticleModify Celestron Indi Driver - by: Ronald Scotti
I have a couple of issues with the current Indi Driver for the Celestron CGEM mount. One, I am experiencing latency in using the mount motion control panel which did not exist in earlier versions of...
View ArticleKstars 3.7.0 does not start up on Mac 10.15.7 - by: Paul
I recently decided to bring my Mac version of Kstars up to date as I was previously running a version from December 2023. It now fails to run and raises an error message to send to Apple. Are there any...
View ArticleLooking for a good way to get to rough focus - by: Steve Cohen
I'm having a devil of a time getting my ZWO-ASI533 camera and ZWO-EAF focuser to rough focus with Ekos (running now on Stellarmate but it was just as hard when I was using an RPi with Astroarch). I'm...
View ArticleZWO-EAF driver not functioning as documented - by: Steve Cohen
I have been having much trouble obtaining rough focus (good enough for autofocus to be usable) with my ZWO-EAF autofocuser. Today I thought it might be a good idea to finally read the driver manual ....
View ArticleOptical trains - kstars now just crashes - by: Paul Nixon
My Raspberry Pi running AstroArch is in a state now that it just crashes every time after I connect to equipment. From: indilib.org/forum/general/13144-solved-k...l-train-profile.html it seems there is...
View ArticleAre INDI Driver Docunentation docs on this website under source control? -...
Sometimes I notice errors in driver docs. Perhaps they were correct for previous versions but development has moved on withou updating them. If these pages were under source control, users could raise...
View ArticleHow do I reverse the direction of the Ekos autofocus routine? - by: Bret
Hi Folks, I have an Edge 11" with the Celestron Electronic Focuser attached. For these scopes, my understanding is that focusing should always finish in the CCW direction so that the primary mirror is...
View ArticleEkos: TELESCOP, OBSERVER and OBJECT names in FITS header? - by: Adrien Barrajon
Hi everyone, I know this is supposed to work if you've filled in the "Observer" and optical train sections in Ekos, but I still have "Unknown" or wrong values to the FITS headers TELESCOP (shows the...
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