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Custom tracking rate in PMC 8 EXOS II INDIGO driver not available. #480

Closed rohan5sep closed 7 months ago

rohan5sep commented 1 year ago

Not sure if this is the right place to post this issue...I a newbie here. So apologies if this is the not the correct place. I come from NINA (ASCOM) and after testing INDIGO for few days I am seriously considering making a switch to INDIGO. Everything is working as expected except I do not see the option to set custom tracking rate in the mount driver/agent. It just lists the standard sidereal, solar and lunar rates. Please see the attached image. To be able to set custom track rates is important to me as my mount has a huge RA drift. I compensate that by decreasing the tracking rate by -1.502. My equipment –

  1. PMC 8 EXOS II mount.
  2. Explore scientific 102mm refractor. ASCOM driver for PMC 8 EXOS II has “offset” setting where I can do this adjustment. Is there a similar setting for INDIGO driver too? INDIGO Version 2.0-240 INDIGO Server: Service indigosky running on Raspberry PI 4 (8 gigabytes memory), connected over Gigabit LAN INDIGO Client: Ain INDIGO Imager Version 1.0-1 (64 bit) Windows 10 PC, connected over Gigabit LAN

PMC8_custom_track_rate

polakovic commented 1 year ago

Yep, this is the right place :) There is no such setting in INDIGO driver, but I'll check what we can do.

rohan5sep commented 1 year ago

Yep, this is the right place :) There is no such setting in INDIGO driver, but I'll check what we can do.

Thanks for replying...OK -- until that happens I was wondering if I could just tweak the driver code and hardcode the settings I need? How do I build the code? Any build instructions? Would you recommend doing this?

polakovic commented 1 year ago

Hi, instructions are at the end of top level README or here:

https://www.indigo-astronomy.org/for-developers.html

Just make sure you will load the right driver (that built one, not the one distributed with INDIGO Sky).

rohan5sep commented 11 months ago

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the information. I was able to successfully build and make the desired changes the PMC 8 driver -- really happy that I was to do this given that I am totally new to Linux. I have just one question: Is there a way to install indigo on RPM based systems like Fedora 38? I did not find the libs in DNF.

polakovic commented 11 months ago

Well, I'm afraid the only way for RP based systems is to build it from source now. @rumengb, any other idea?

rumengb commented 11 months ago

Currently we build DEBs only and we do not have RPM build support yet. However we are looking for somebody to build and amaintaing indigo on RPM distributions...

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Well, I'm afraid the only way for RP based systems is to build it from source now. @rumengb https://github.com/rumengb, any other idea?

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rohan5sep commented 11 months ago

Thanks! I would give it a try.