Hi Paul
Robert here. Am willing to help or further develop the INDI driver you started. Am author of myFocuserPro and Pro2. If you still have the sources/time would like to progress this.

Regards
Robert

Hi Robert,

that is great. Only one problem... I am in hospital at the moment and don't have access to my main computer and sources. Might take a while before they release me here, I will contact you via PM on this forum when I am back in business. (Would like to discuss a few things with you anyway).

Kind regards,

Paul

Get well soon, Paul. I hope it’s nothing serious.


Wouter

No problem, get well and rest
regards
Robert

Hi Paul
If you are up to it, I would like to see what can be done to progress the INDI driver for myFocuserPro2.

I can be contacted on Yahoo e-mail at brown_rb
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Regards
Robert

Hi guys, I was following this thread with interest, but decided to have a go myself. The hardest part so far was getting a development environment working, which I eventually achieved!

Since then I have created a MyFocuserPro2 driver that is based on the moonlite and currently implements the following
Move functions (In, Out, Target, Sync, Current Position, Max position)
Step mode (full - 1/32),
Coil Power (On Off)
Motor speed (1,2,3)
Display (On Off)

I will try and implement "Reverse Direction" tomorrow time permitting.

I have not done anything regarding temperature, as I have not got this option enabled on my focuser, and so cannot test it.

The biggest issue I will have is actually getting this code into the project, and any help with would be greatly received, but not quite there yet.

What would people suggest are the 2nd layer functions that perhaps I should try to implement, if any, that MyFocuserPro2 supports?

Hi Alan,

Thanks a lot for your work, it's greatly appreciated! Can you tell us why setting the development environment was difficult? If it is difficult, we need to improve documentation and HOWTOs to make it easier.

I have just spent 5 minutes writing a response, including some of the install issues and an update to progress, to only loose the reply when submitting!!!!!

I clicked "I'm not a robot", then "Submit". Next a Captcha popped up, which I clicked. The captcha disappeared, and so did my post, and I was presented with an infuriating message to complete "Captcha" before posting!!!

I think I have found a bug in this forum interface. If you click "I'm not a robot", followed by submit (before the captcha appears, then the post is lost. Interestingly, I don't have the "Captcha" visible for this post.

Anyway, back to the important stuff, I have coded the "Reverse motor" function, and plan on doing some pre-sets on the main page for 1,10,100,500.

I am developing on a desktop, intel processor, (I did try and do it on my raspberry Pi, but struggled, and will start a new thread about this). I would like to test my code on the Raspberry Pi, but not sure how to proceed. Can I just take the intel compiled code and run it on the Raspberry Pi (arm processor)? If so what files do I actually need (I have an extensive Windows programming background, but almost zero Linux programming).

No you need to recompile on the raspberry pi, or use a cross-compiler. So just use sftp or git clone (if you are using git to host your code) and then run cmake and then make.

Ok, So very pleased with progress, see attached screen grabs (the only thing not working is Temperature Calibration (think this is supposed to be just an offset to the rad temperature, but can't find any offset in the MFP2 arduino code).

That's amazing progress Alan, great work!

Looking forward to the PR!