Please forgive a newbie question relating to PHD guiding on Astroberry. I've just swapped my PC-based observatory to an Astroberry to see how stable things are with this solution.
I use a Meade DSI as an autoguider and would like to continue to keep using this for the moment, but there is no option for a DSI under the PHD imaging equipment connect devices. Can someone just point me in the right direction as to how to install the driver here - I can see my DSI under EKOS, but I want to use PHD if possible.
You are using PHD or PHD2?
In PHD2, on the 'Connect Equipment' chose INID Camera (DSI CCD) (or close to this string).
This assumes you do have the INDI_DSI_CCD driver loaded, as you mention "I can see my DSI under EKOS"
I have installed the entire latest Indi library, including indi_dsi_ccd, which is in the ./user/bin directory as default installation for Astroberry.
I’m also using the default install of PHD2 that comes with Astroberry package, but I see no option for DSI under the camera options in PHD2, nor in the Indi option under the same menu.
I’m just confused as to where PHD2 might need to see the dsi driver - it’s obviously not the same as for EKOS.
So, I’ve just worked out that PHD2 needs to be running before EKOS is started and running. I can see the cameras under the Indi option in PHD2 once this sequence of events is rigorously followed.
Unfortunately it has now thrown up another problem - the system is now reporting that the DSI driver is crashing and so won’t start!
I’m assuming the driver for Meade DSI includes DSI1 osc?
Indi, via EKOS, should be running with the indi_dsi_ccd loaded and running prior to starting PHD2 Connect.
You can try just launching indiserver with indi_dsi_ccd, no Kstars or Ekos, to get there
Open a terminal window
Then run
/usr/bin/indiserver /usr/bin/indi_dsi_ccd (given the paths you provided above).
Does this error out for you?
Then launch PHD2 and do the Connect.
Unfortunately I am about 1k miles from my astro equipment for the next few days, and I have 3 various flavors of DSI (1 mono, 1 color, 2 mono) to walk it all through.