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peterjc / longsight

Python code for capturing images from a webcam etc
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Stellarium and SOCAT #1

Closed manelvelasco closed 10 years ago

manelvelasco commented 10 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to use your amazing code to make a "push to" camera system. I try to use stellarium as visualizer, but there is no way to configure lx200 protocol over TCP/IP protocol. After reading your suggestion in the code to use socat GOPEN:/dev/ptyp0,ignoreeof TCP:raspberrypi8:4030

i get an error indicating that stellarium is unable to open dev/ptyp0, even using it as root.

Could you please make me any suggestioon to solve the problem?

Thanks

manelvelasco commented 10 years ago

I answer myself, after some efforts I'm able to redirect the serial port to TCP, the command line is: sudo socat pty,link=/dev/vmodem0,waitslave tcp:SERVER-IP:SERVER-PORT

You have to do it with sudo, otherwise you don't have permission to create the vmodem0 at /dev To allow stellarium to access it you have two options: 1- change the permissions of /dev/vmodem0 with chmod 2.- Start stellarium as root