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Wanderer astro

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Replied by sunny_s on topic Wanderer astro

Absolutely the same behaviour for me. I suggest you also to write email to Frank Wang and ask him about writing driver for Mini V2 for libindi or opening specification to do this by community.
3 months 1 day ago #98884

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Here's what he kindly responded:
The INDIGO driver for WandererRotator will be released soon, the INDI driver is also in progress. I believe they will be ready in less than 2 months.
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3 months 1 day ago #98885

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Replied by Miguel on topic Wanderer astro

any experience with the flat panel?
2 months 3 weeks ago #99068

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Replied by Miguel on topic Wanderer astro

by the way, any plan to support the V4 flat panel?
2 months 3 weeks ago #99069

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Replied by sunny_s on topic Wanderer astro

github.com/indilib/indi/pull/2000

It has happened, driver for WandererRotator Mini V1&V2 was added
2 months 2 weeks ago #99314

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Hoping to give it a test tonight, although not under the sky as the winds are a bit crazy today.
2 months 1 week ago #99331

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Here's what I did and observed.

1. Connected. Current angle is loaded as 110.
Backlash is disabled, reverse is also disabled.
Limits are set to 0.

2. I click “Mechanical Zero”
Log: Virtual Mechanical Angle is set to zero.
Current angle is also reset to 0.00.

3. I try to make it go to 90.
It rotates CCW by 90 degrees, and as it is moving the current angle field is updated accordingly.
However, when it stops, the current value is set to 9.00 instead of 90.

4. I try to make it go to 0.
It rotates CW, but only by a tiny bit (I suspect by 9 degrees).
And the current angle field is set to 8.10 instead of 81 (I am starting to see a pattern here)

Looks like there is a bug that sets the current angle to only 0.1 of the actual value.

The logs only say what its rotation targets are, together with the commands, but one can see that the second move command parameter (-10278) is only -0.1 of the first one (102780).
[2024-02-27T00:19:48.966 JST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 : "[DEBUG] CMD: 1500002 "
[2024-02-27T00:19:48.967 JST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 :  "[INFO] Virtual Mechanical Angle is set to zero. "
[2024-02-27T00:21:28.310 JST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 : "[DEBUG] CMD <102780> "
[2024-02-27T00:21:28.311 JST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 :  "[INFO] Rotator moving to 90.00 degrees... "
[2024-02-27T00:22:59.032 JST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 : "[DEBUG] CMD <-10278> "
[2024-02-27T00:22:59.066 JST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 :  "[INFO] Rotator moving to 0.00 degrees... "
2 months 1 week ago #99341

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Wanderer astro

Please report this issue on Github and we'll ask WandererAstro to take a look
2 months 1 week ago #99343

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

I've already contacted Frank regrading this, so he is aware.
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2 months 1 week ago #99345

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Replied by Wanderer on topic Wanderer astro

It is because the firmware is outdated. Firmware version 20240208 is needed.
2 months 1 week ago #99347

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Thanks! Updating firmware indeed helped, and the problem is resolved.
BTW, since the official update instructions are only for Windows users, here is the command I ran in case it is useful for others using Linux:
avrdude -v -c arduino -P /dev/ttyUSB1 -b 115200 -p m168p -D -U flash:w:WandererRotatorM54.20240208.hex:i
This of course assumes avrdude is installed, and /dev/ttyUSB1 should be matched to whatever port the system assigns to the rotator when it is connected (this can be looked up in the system log by disconnecting the device and reconnecting it again).
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2 months 1 week ago #99348

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Replied by Gord Tulloch on topic Wanderer astro

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.
2 months 1 week ago #99360

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