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INDI Library v2.0.6 is Released (02 Feb 2024)

Bi-monthly release with minor bug fixes and improvements

Automatic Plate solving and slew with a push button

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Hello

How could I add a push button that sends the order to take a picture, plate solve and slew to target?
Also the same question to start guiding with an auto-selected star.

Can this be done with a Joystick in Ekos?

Further, can I get feedback of the result?. Planning to use a RaspberryPi3 and maybe those I/O are useful (Despite I don't know, yet, how to use them).

My intention: I would like to make an easy-use setup for visitors at our observatory, so it's only matter of selecting the object with Skysafari in a Tablet, and pushing a button (if not found), also guiding easily in case anyone wants to make DSO.

Thank you in advance
5 years 11 months ago #25335

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Yes it can be done, but requires customizing INDI. Need to subclass the INDI::Telescope class for your mount and overwrite processButton(...) function to call a python script. This script should uses DBus to send such commands to Ekos to execute the desired function.
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Thank you for your time and reply

Pity, that seems too far away from my knowledge or possibilities. Anyway gives me a direction to go and will investigate it

Again, Thank you.
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