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How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

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How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry was created by Steve Conway

Hi I did have the focuser working on astroberry, but unfortunately I have blown the chip on the Adafruit motor hat.
I have proved that the second connection M2 is working Ok with a simple python script but I don't know how to tell astroberry to use M2 / stepper2.

I would really appreciate any help! Then all i need is clear skies.

Thanks in advance
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Replied by Paul on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Slowlearn,

Can you reprogram the Arduino to swap the ports?

Paul
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Replied by Steve Conway on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Hi Paul

Thanks for the reply but I am not using an Arduino, I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with an Adafruit motor HAT directly attached to the GPIO pins.

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Replied by Paul on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Steve,

What controls the HAT?
Is it something in INDI?

Paul
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Replied by Steve Conway on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Hi Paul
I am using Astroberry which has an inbuilt driver for the Focuser using the Adafruit motor hat. That is what I need to change, but i don't know how.
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Replied by Radek Kaczorek on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

The driver handles only stepper 1. However you can recompile it, forcing to use stepper 2.
Source files and instruction is located here: github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-amh
After downloading the sources code change line 62 in the file amh_focuser.h so it says:
Adafruit_StepperMotor myStepper = hat.getStepper(2);

Then, compile, install and have fun
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Replied by Steve Conway on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Thanks Radek this looks like solution I was looking for.

This will save me buying a new Motor Hat

Thanks for your help

Steve
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Replied by Steve Conway on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Worked a treat thanks.

Just as a note to others that follow instructions.

Cmake was not on Astroberry image had to install it, and had to run Cmake as sudo, but still very easy and quick to sort out.
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Replied by Radek Kaczorek on topic How can I select stepper2 on Adafruit Motor Hat on Astroberry

Thanks for the feedback Steve
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