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Lightweight INDI client tools for embedded use
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Questions about your workflow #1

Open umi-neko opened 7 years ago

umi-neko commented 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing your workflow. It's just what I want to do. But I still have a question, how about guiding in this workflow? I want to run raspberry pi without X11, and want to know your solution. Thank you.

GuLinux commented 7 years ago

Hi, glad it's useful to someone else :)

In my setup I don't guide, I have a star adventurer with a few lenses, max 200mm, so guiding is not really necessary (although it would be useful sometimes).

The best way to do it would be to implement some guiding application in python using the same indi module, and possibly command line only. Maybe adding a web interface to actually see the images would be a plus.

But in the meantime, I guess you could start a virtual X11 display, using vnc, just for the guiding, and starting lin-guider. I know it's not ideal, but at least it should work. Lin-guider should also be able to talk to other applications, so you could also dither, or get notification if you loose the guiding star.

You might also try to ask the lin-guider developer if he has plans of building a GUI-less daemon someday :)

umi-neko commented 7 years ago

Thank you for answer my question. :D

In fact I also use star adventurer. I want to mount a 350mm OTA on it, so I think guiding is needed.

I use a raspberry pi to running indi now. My current solution is using vnc and virtual X11, it worked, but I want to make it more simple. My camera is d5300, so I can do focus and preview on that, then use web base manager control the sequence job. I think if there is a GUI-less guider, maybe can make it work as SG-4 autoguider, life may get more happy.

Maybe I can ask the lin-guider guys. ;)

gnthibault commented 6 years ago

Just commenting here to say thank you as well. Your classes are just exactly what I was looking for 😀

GuLinux commented 6 years ago

Thanks :D I'm not sure what to do with this project yet...

The python scripts work relatively fine now, but I don't know how to evolve it. An idea could be to develop a web interface, so you can create sequences using a browser.

Plus, they are a bit too slow.. not sure if it's python, pyindi-client, or the raspberry pi.. Any ideas?

tdaiber commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I too am glad I found this project :) My goal is to set up an All Sky camera controlled by a Pi Zero W. Thus I don't need a GUI, KStars and so on. In fact, my application is even more simple than your's since I do not need to check on focus, aiming and such. Owning an AAGCloudwatcher, I am thinking of running a shell script checking the Cloudwatchers status for OK, start a ~20 min sequence and then start over. A simple web interface to check/set exposure time, gain and such would sure be very nice for this application. On the speed I cannot comment so far, having just managed to install the scripts but not started using them yet...

GuLinux commented 6 years ago

Hi, glad it can be of use :) Actually a simple web interface is already there, in the "dashboard" directory. It's not well documented (particularly the setup part), but if you run from raspbian/ubuntu the provisioning scripts in the provisioning directory everything should be setup for you.

I'm actually working on an enhanced web interface, with much more features (creating and managing sequences, setting INDI device properties, possibly even previewing shots), ideally a web version Ekos. Hope to be able to get a first working prototype soon!