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Yeah, I did that, but it feels a bit hacky that I can't set the backlash to its true value, and then add some overscan on top.

Thanks.

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John replied to the topic 'Focus backlash limited at 1000 steps' in the forum. 34 minutes ago

Hi Nelson,

You can set Overscan upto 10000 ticks.

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John replied to the topic 'focusing rasa 8' in the forum. 38 minutes ago

Hi Bruce,

Looks good!

One of the things I'm trying to improve is defaulting of step size. When you get a chance could you please post a screenshot of your CFZ screen please (launched by pressing the CFZ button on Focus).

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John replied to the topic 'New ZWO EAF - questions' in the forum. 44 minutes ago

Thanks Ron,

Hopefully things will work well for you, but If not just post again.

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Nelson replied to the topic 'Kstars 3.6.9' in the forum. 1 hour 44 minutes ago

Same here. Upgrading to Sonoma solves the problem. A bit weird that kstars is the app that is most demanding with my keeping things up to date, but it is what it is.

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FWIW, in a Bookworm Raspberry Pi OS aberration inspector crashes Kstars all the time and the way around it is to launch Kstars from the command line first setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11.

First seen here: www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/14456-aberrat...rashing-on-rpi4.html

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Bruce Morrell replied to the topic 'focusing rasa 8' in the forum. 8 hours 40 minutes ago

John,
Success, although I also changed the step size to 500. Thanks for your help!



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John,
Thanks again. Yes that was going to be my next step, uncheck everything. I will check it out (bad pun) the next time I am under the stars.

I have lots to learn about using your Auto Focus tool, but what I have used so far has been working great for establishing a good focus.

Ron

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Thank you John for this tool: it replaces Hocus Focus for me. What about adding the labels for Camera and Telescope too? Sometimes I forget where is the correct side and have to listen your video youtu.be/IbbxJJS9W48?si=r3TkxJdIpM7hODd_&t=835

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If it helps, this is what ChatGPT had to say on the subject:
The issue seems to be related to the use of the super keyword within the Package class. The error message "type object 'super' has no attribute 'install'" indicates that Python is unable to find an install method within the superclass of Package.

In Python, when you use super() without arguments inside a class, it is typically used to call methods from the superclass. However, in your Package class, there is no superclass method named install, which is causing the error.

To resolve this issue, you have a couple of options:

Override the install method from the superclass: If CMakePackageBase defines an install method, you can override it in the Package class and provide the necessary implementation.
Ensure the superclass has an install method: If CMakePackageBase does not define an install method, you should not attempt to call super().install() in your Package class.

Make sure to review the superclass (CMakePackageBase) to see if it defines an install method. If it does, you can override it as shown above. If it doesn't, you'll need to remove the super().install() call and implement the install method according to your requirements.

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It turned out to be much more work than I expected to get the R-Pi version working. CloudWatcher on the Mac uses scripting for many features which, in an INDI environment, will be handled directly by a client. So I've stripped them out, which removes a potential major headache oil porting.
But, it's been in development for well over a decade and uses various things which are now defunct, or were never available on R-Pi (these are mostly to do with preferences, of which there are hundreds). So I've had to rewrite quite large bits of it. Now it's working, but it still has the GUI peculiarities which will need tuning and adjustment. So, a work in progress, but, there is progress !

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Welcome to the forum, Nathan!

I have built a very simple pan-tilt Controller for my weather camera. Maybe its code is helpful for you: pan_tilt_controller.py

Cheers
Wolfgang

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Howdy all,

I do Radio Astronomy at home using a custom built 1 meter antenna. I am experimenting with drives and controls to eventually add tracking capability to my scope. I 3D printed a slew drive which had good results moving the scope in elevation; I suspect it will do even better in azimuth based on my testing.

docs.google.com/presentation/d/10aHnodI9...7&rtpof=true&sd=true

I am using the Waveshare motor hat to manually drive the motors but would like to integrate with KStars, Stellarium, or the like. I have reviewed some projects already, and other literature (like Radek's github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-diy, and Kevin's www.indilib.org/forum/focusers-filter-wh...or-raspberry-pi.html), but they seem focused on focusers (ba-dump). Also I've read that the microstepping has been a concern.

However, for my application pointing errors are not critical as my beamwidth is so large. Can anyone offer any help on how to modify some of the offerings so that I can control two motors in an Alt-Az configuration for slewing and tracking purposes?

Thanks,

Nathan

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