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Astroberry Server is a ready to use system for Raspberry Pi for controlling all your astronomy equipment
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My Experience and help Setting up KSTARS in Astroberry #140

Open bbillp opened 3 years ago

bbillp commented 3 years ago

Astroberry 2.03 or the latest download in March 2021 Raspberry Pi 4b 8gb memory and POWERED USB Hub for the Cameras. previous Pi experience

No problems with WiFi from Windows PC out of the box Added the $2.50 Real Time Clock from ‘the robot shop’ and followed OH8STN installation procedure. Added the recommended U-Blox USB GPS following OH8STN procedure This GPS IS NOT recommended , poor sensitivity INDI Drivers for GPSD and GPSNMEA, Celestron AVX mount, ZWO CCD camera (guide Camera) , Nikon DSLR for the Nikon D5600. Firefox and VNCViewer for headless access

Desktop Size has to be adjusted in Raspi-Config separate for Firefox web browser and VNCViewr

Celestron AVX mount driver is ALSO CelestronGPS driver so I struggled to fix that then I read somewhere that the driver has 1 or 2 or 3 different names but are all the same. anyway that work in Astroberry PHD2.

1) How is the ASTROBERRY password changed to something else ?????? I changed the Pi password but do not see how to change the astroberry password.

2) My big issue was setting up KSTARS, INDI drivers are setup and STarted in the INDI server (little arrow on the left margin of the desktop) I have KSTARS working to GoTo an object with the Celestron AVX mount but I am not sure HOW I got KSTARS configured for the drivers in the first place. The Celestron AVX Nexstar + controller has a USB connection to the Pi-4 powered hub. INDI driver is CelestronGPS which someone said is also Celestron AVX. It seems that a cold reboot is required, I cannot be sure how I got KSTARS connected to the Celestron so Can anyone give me a clear cut 1,2,3, step setup.

3) KSTARS astro map display is terrible, any hints to get the horizon and brighter DSS and Planets to appear?

Thanks to everyone who made this project possible, I wanted to dump my PC as a Astro-Controller and the Pi-4 with VNCViewer is a FAST combination. My gear is outside remote controlled from the Kitchen and everything is battery powered.

Phylastik commented 3 years ago

For question 1, yes i have the same issue, i was able to change the password for Pi (root user) and i used it for updates. But the password used for vnc is still the default one.

For question 2, it seems to be to more an issue with Kstars than with astroberry. So you should better have a look on the INDI librairy FAQ and forum to get more advices.

Question 3 : same thing

etfloyd commented 3 years ago
  1. From the astroberry desktop (I use the browser-based VNC desktop: https://<your Pi's IP address>/desktop) just click the VNC icon in the upper-right corner just to the left of the signal strength indicator and a dialog box will appear that gives you a link to change the VNC password: image

2.a. Using the Indi Web Manager (only available in the browser-based desktop afaik), I configure to start the indi drivers at astroberry start-up, then create a profile in Ekos and configure them as "Mode: remote" to localhost: image Having the indi drivers always running lets me connect directly from a remote kstars if I want. (Note: The other way to do it is not configure the indi drivers to start automatically on start-up, but set them up in Ekos as "Mode: local". That way they start when kstars starts and shut down when kstars shuts down.)

b. In KStars settings, set your geographic location (or if you have a GPS, make sure it's correct and not somewhere in Poland!) and in INDI, set "KStars updates all devices". image

c. Switch on your mount but don't set the time, location, or align with the handset, plug in in your USB cables and start the Ekos profile. It will set the AVX clock and location, which it won't do if you've already aligned the mount. Now, using the Indi control panel, disconnect your mount (leave the USB connections plugged in) and using the AVX handset, click through the time and location settings (don't change!) and align it (I usually just do quick align if I'm pretty close to polar.)

d. Then re-connect the AVX using the Indi control panel. This time, it will pick up your mount parameters. You can then do a more rigorous polar alignment using Ekos, if you want. (Note: If you're doing autoguiding with your AVX, you should know that the indi v1.8.9 Celestron GPS driver has a known issue. See: https://github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-server/issues/138 for the link.)

  1. Can't help you with this one. :(.
rkaczorek commented 3 years ago

Regarding 3 - this needs to be addressed to KStars development team, not here.

bbillp commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the replies. The sky has been terrible so progress is very slow but PHD2 and Firecapture are working with a ZWO ASI120 for guiding and a ZWO ASI178 for imaging using the Pi USB-3 . Also Celestron CGX and Celestron AVX are working fine. NIKON DSLR Testing is next.