I have just finished building a sneak preview of Astroberry Server and prepared a video teaser for it.
Astroberry Server is a preconfigured desktop for Raspberry Pi 3 with KStars, Ekos and INDI server just ready to use. It is based on Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and it's accessible from your browser, VNC client or SSH. It works as a virtual wireless access point (VAS) and WLAN client at the same time. So you can use it to control your setup in the field without any additional device. Let me know of your thoughts.
Visit
github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-server/ for system image download and installation directions.
The system features:
- Ubuntu Mate 16.04 Desktop
- Virtual Access Point (VAP) allowing to access the system without external wireless network
- Remote desktop accessible over VNC at astroberry.local:5900 or a web browser at
astroberry.local
- KStars and Ekos with all available device drivers
- Astrometry with basic index files
- PHD2 for autoguiding
- Gnome Predict for satellite tracking
- StarPlot for 3-dimensional positions of stars in space
- oaCapture and wxAstroCapture for planetary imaging
- Astroberry PiFace drivers for a relay and focuser control
- Samba server sharing Pictures directory for easy access to captured images
UPDATE:
For version 1.0.20170505 please download
astroberry-update
script to /usr/local/bin and run it to update Astroberry Server. You don't need to do this for future releases - it will be included in the release.
UPDATE2:
Starting from version 1.0.1 system upgrade is available without need to download full system image. Just download the latest version of the image file, flash your microSD and boot your raspberry pi 3 from it, after booting start terminal window and run astroberry-update and astroberry-upgrade. It will upgrade your system to the latest release of Astroberry Server.
UPDATE3:
Version 1.0.3 release
here
UPDATE4
Version 1.0.4 release
here
UPDATE5:
Version 1.1.0 release
here
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ support available!