Ekos & INDI on Rasbperry PI


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INDI Library v2.0.7 is Released (01 Apr 2024)

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I tried INDI server on Beaglebone Black. It worked pretty well with ATIK camera. I didn't try it with other gear yet.

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I just received a raspberry pi for christmas. I'm totally newbie, but I would install kstars with Ekos (kstars-bleeding). How could I do this? Thank you in advance !
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I added a tutorial on running INDI on Raspberry PI here:

indilib.org/support/tutorials/139-indi-l...on-raspberry-pi.html
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I'm actually working on a driver to use the raspberry pi camera as a ccd, and a driver to use the GPIO pins to control an ST4 interface. I have the ST4 driver working (I think), and I think I'm close on the CCD driver.
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As the bad weather continues here (for over a month ...), I continue my tests at home. I connected a powered hub on the Raspberry. On this hub, I plugged the Lodestar for autoguiding, the DMK (CCD), the Starlight Xpress filter wheel (to DMK), EQ6 (and HEQ5) mount with a eqdirect cable or a cable connected between the hand controler and PC, and finally a logitech wireless controller. I logged in RPi ad-hoc wireless network in a first time, then rj45.
All my tests worked well with my different configurations (EQMOD, Celestron_GPS, SynScan, wifi or ethernet connection ...) except for one thing: Ekos refuses to open the guide tab. By cons, if I plug the hub directly on the PC (with USB extension cable), the guide tab opens for Lodestar. Where is the problem? Cable, hub (D-Link 7-Port), RPi, driver ... ? Does anyone encountered the same problem?
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What's the name you put for the Lodestar in Ekos remote options? It needs to be "SX CCD LodeStar" exactly like that. Check here for more details:

indilib.org/about/ekos/setup.html
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Ok, next time I 'll RTFM ! :lol:
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Milosz , I'd like to use a BB or BBB too. Any words of wisdom?
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It just works :) I don't know about Beagle Board (I assume XM) because I didn't try. With Beaglebone Black it works just fine. The CPU is the same architecture as for R Pi, so the binaries from Peter work fine. I think they should work with OpenEmbedded image that is shipped with the board, but I used Ubuntu from Linaro. There is no pre-built image. You have to grab hwpack [1] and rootfs (preferrably 'developer') [2] and using linaro-image-tools [3] create the image for Beaglebone Black. Than you boot from SD card that you used with linaro-media-create (part of image tools). Copy debian packages prepared by Peter (make sure it's armhf) and install it with dpkg. I think some dependencies for INDI are missing, but I just built them on the target. I will try to post detailed step-by-step instructions, but it might take a while. I'm now super busy at work and this will only change around mid March.

[1] snapshots.linaro.org/ubuntu/hwpacks/beaglebone/latest
[2] snapshots.linaro.org/ubuntu/images/developer/latest
[3] launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools & wiki.linaro.org/Linaro-Image-Tools (wiki is a bit outdated, but still valid in the docs part)

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Milosz,
Thanks for the quick reply. I have an original BeagleBone I'd like to use up. I'm waiting, like everyone else, for the BBB's to get back in stock. The BB still has Angstrom Linux which uses a different package system which is lacking key items. I'm in the middle of a compile to build a new kernel and Ubuntu RFS. I'll see how that goes, then try your suggestions as well.

Larry
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