So I would definitely recommend making sure everything works with simulators before going out in the field.

I can’t do much at the moment because I am on vacation right now and don’t have very good internet, which is why it has taken me awhile to respond. But I will be able to do more after the 14th of July.

I would like to know why the automated installer failed to install astropy, because it should have worked unless you have something odd about your python installation.

I would recommend checking to see that it works now using the ccd and telescope simulators in offline mode. If it doesn’t, check to see that the index files are installed gsc is installed, and where python3 is installed. If there is a problem, Ekos should print the error messages to the log now because I changed it. You should not have to paste the commands to terminal anymore.

I just updated to 3.1 tonight, and ran into the same issue. When attempting to install the software through the button, it failed on the first step. "Python failed to install". I hadn't read this thread yet, so I didn't attempt to do it again before reverting back to 3.0.

The first step is installing homebrew. Are you saying that didn’t work or are you saying brew install python didn’t work?

I'm not really sure, I didn't see any progress indicator or system messages. But Ekos said "Python failed to install". So I don't specifically know where it failed.

OK, i figured it out. I already had Python 3 installed through another means, so it was somehow causing the script to fail from within EKOS. I had to create a link to brew from my install, and that still caused the script to not work. So then I told brew to reinstall python. After doing that, the EKSO script finished working to install the other component, and plate solving now works.

Gotcha, what was your means of installing python3? When I was working on this last month, everything I found said that the best way to do it was to use homebrew. I was hoping to find a simple installer, which I know I did several years ago, but as far as I could tell the new way is to use homebrew.

Obviously anyway it gets installed would be fine and the simpler the better. I will look at the interface again to make sure we are supporting people with alternate locations for python 3.

After I worked on this for kstars I made the INDI web manager app last month and i had to do something similar and I think I improved on it a little. I will see if I can apply that to KStars.

So I just looked back at what I did. KStars is running astrometry and INDI Web Manager app is running Indi-web, but they are both using python so that basics are the same. Note that there is no way to force astrometry.net to use a particular python executable. It just uses whatever python it finds first in your PATH. It is preferable that it uses python 3 instead of python 2. Basically the way I tell astrometry.net how to find python is to add whatever folder is specified to astrometry's PATH environment variable when it runs. For both KStars and INDI Web Manager App, I have left both the option to install and configure your own python setup as well as use an automated set of installation steps. For homebrew, python 3 once it is installed can be found at either /usr/local/bin/python3 or /usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin/python.

For KStars, I have a button to setup everything automatically. But then if you uncheck the default checkbox, you can enter the path where python can be found and set up everything yourself as shown in these screenshots.




For INDI Web Manager App, I have a slightly different design. I have a green/red indicator that determines if everything is setup properly next to an install button. Then below that, I have the box where you can enter the path where python can be found. This box can be edited if you uncheck the default checkbox and you can enter whatever path python can be found at.



Is the current method in KStars sufficient for both people who want to install python themselves and people who want to use my automated installer, or is the way I did it in INDI Web Manager App better?

Thanks,

Rob

i have same issue but i have the following error where in the pip3 configuration can i check this on mac

pip3 install astropy
Collecting astropy
Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 503 Service Unavailable',))': /artifactory/api/pypi/pypi_python_org/simple/astropy/
Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 503 Service Unavailable',))': /artifactory/api/pypi/pypi_python_org/simple/astropy/
Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 503 Service Unavailable',))': /artifactory/api/pypi/pypi_python_org/simple/astropy/
Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 503 Service Unavailable',))': /artifactory/api/pypi/pypi_python_org/simple/astropy/
Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 503 Service Unavailable',))': /artifactory/api/pypi/pypi_python_org/simple/astropy/
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement astropy (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for astropy

Chris

Sounds like a server is down perhaps? Maybe try again later?

Another possibility from searching online is that you might have an older version of pip3 because they moved servers:
to try upgrading type this into the terminal:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Or maybe a proxy issue?

I fixed it it was caused by my company setup of python, arfactory setup it looks our company servers
But still i have issue with solving offline not possible will it dit work i found a other thread of you with local install of atromery.net (binaries are missing) but still no success

chris

I am having some issue trying to get the astropy to work as well. I am NOT a computer guy. I am kind of amazed Ive been able to get this far. I have installed everything under the sun, or so I think I have. Here is the error message I get when ekos starts up. I am also getting this message after I run your setup. Everything has been installed as far as I can tell. And I entered your commands in the earlier post into terminal. not sure if thats where Im even supposed to put it. Any help would be great! Thanks!!