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fcsonline / node-telescope-server

A Nodejs server to control telescopes remotely, like Nexstar
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Bogus coordinates when controlling Nexstar 8SE #6

Open IvantheDugtrio opened 9 years ago

IvantheDugtrio commented 9 years ago

I've tested the telescope control in Stellarium with a serial-usb connection directly to my x86 workstation and it works as expected. When I control the telescope over the same serial-usb connection to my Raspberry Pi B+ it goes in all sorts of nonsensical directions. When I tell it to go from Polaris to Vega and back to Polaris, it just goes to 3 random coordinates, often below the horizon. I haven't seen any pattern in the directions it slews. I have left the telescope connection configuration in Stellarium as instructed in the guide.

Raspberry Pi stats: node: v0.10.36 npm: v1.4.28

fcsonline commented 8 years ago

I received some patches that maybe fix your problems about random coordinates. Waiting for https://github.com/fcsonline/node-telescope-server/issues/7 to review the pull request.