The cool thing about computers is if you start something running and go to bed it'll be done when you wake up 
I'd encourage you to get Stellarmate X and support Jasem, I have both RPi and X licenses and X is far and away more useful than the RPi version, just because I can compile things like Siril on X, and hardware like my Pegasus Bluetooth EQMOD box actually work!
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Considering AstroArch has one maintainer as well, it would seem to be a better idea to use Stellarmate, vanilla Raspian or Ubuntu and just use Nou's scripts to compile the latest versions of everything from scratch:
gitea.nouspiro.space/nou/astro-soft-build
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Hi there - looks interesting, what would the use cases be for this client versus using PyIndi?
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Everything working great on my dev box, waiting for some decent weather to get it out to the observatory and try it under the stars. Thanks!
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The avrdude update worked great on my RPi400.
I downloaded nou's astrosoft software to rebuild INDI and KStars with the nightly build, it's easy and it works. Just do the following:
sudo apt install git
cd ..
git clone gitea.nouspiro.space/nou/astro-soft-build
cd astro-soft-build
./install-dependencies.sh
./build-soft-latest.sh
Go for a liesurely coffee, read a novel etc. and it'll finish eventually
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Thanks for the Linux command line! I'm looking for the WandererAstro Lite V2 driver and Frank tells me it's a few days away.
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Hi there:
I just updated my IOS version of the Stellarmate app and when it tried to connect to Stellarmate.com it failed with a |getaddrinfo: ENOTFOUND www.stellarmate.com. This is a bit wierd since it would seem to be a DNS issue vs the server actually being down. Is this the same for everyone or perhaps there's an upstream DNS issue thats preventing resolution for me?
Regards,
Gord
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I heard from her (my apologies for misgendering you Nicola!) who indicated she didn't intend to either monetize nor open source DMXCapture.
As a sometime planetary imager, I tend to agree with Axel that adding real planetary imaging to the already overly complex EKOS UI seems to be wasted effort, versus perhaps a UI update (although honestly I find the EKOS UI perfectly fine versus trying to cram everything on a single screen) or adding livestacking to the desktop interface (right now I livestack with ASTAP which is also fine but a hassle with filters and calibration etc.) There are lots of excellent planetary imaging packages out there including FireCapture and AstroDMX so it's not like we don't have something. Honestly, planetary imaging is so different than DSO imaging (finicky to position the planet on the sensor for example) that right now I don't do planets because it's a hassle to dismantle my DSO rig and assembly a planetary rig with different filters, ADC, Barlow etc.)
That being said to meet the OP requirement it just sounds like the ability to capture a SER file instead of a FITS is a pretty simple requirement that won't require much change. From what I can tell there just needs to be a change to the Capture tab to include SER in the Format field instead of FITS, 8 or 16-bit. I guess there would need to be a duration field as well since the exposure would be needed.
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I'm shocked to say you're right, it's not open source. I thought it was - certainly it doesn't look like Nicola has tried to monetize the software so wonder why he hasn't open sourced it?
I'll ask him...
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This seems to be a rather significant effort when AstroDMX Capture (www.astrodmx-capture.org.uk/) as of version 2.0.2, support now includes INDI mount, camera, focuser and filter wheels. Also, EKOS is pretty complicated as is?
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