I have an untested driver for DDW done, just haven't had time to go to our astronomy club's observatory to actually test it. If someone is adventurous enough to try, the code can be found in github.com/jpaana/indi/tree/ddw_driver (ie. ddw_driver branch in my fork of main indi repo). Any reports if it can even find the controller, let alone do something with it would be welcome. I can't promise it won't break anything, so being present to physically stop things might be a good idea :)

As for the pointing model, KStars/Ekos has a tool for creating mount model in the alignment tab, but I haven't had the need as I just plate solve the targets anyway.

I'll let you go first

Seriously, my dome is in s/w New Mexico and I'm currently at home in northern Virginia hunkered down until probably mid-January.

As for Ekos/Indi, thanks -- I'll give it a try. We also have a roll-off with a C-14 Edge and a 140 mm refractor for visual work. I'd like to see if I can control both scopes with one computer.

I might have some time to try it on a raspberry pi.....Any issues you foresee? I'm new to the pi experience.

I don't see there would be any PI specific issues, the driver is using very basic serial communication like most INDI drivers. So if you can compile INDI from source and connect the PI to the controller, that should be enough.

Any progress? I'm confident I cant get everything else in my chain to run under INDI (mount, camera, filter wheel, etc).

Unfortunately no progress from my side, the driver should be feature complete, but I haven't been able to go to our club observatory to actually test it (due to covid, general family busyness and pure laziness due to bad weather)

I'm at my observatory now for at least a month. Is there someway you can send me the code?

Thanks,
Bob

The code is available as a branch in my INDI fork at github.com/jpaana/indi/tree/ddw_driver

If the code is almost feature complete, maybe submit it to INDI? At least it would make it to the nightly PPA which would make testing it a lot more accessible.

I would love to (maintaining a separate branch is a chore), but I'd also like to run it with actual hardware at least once before releasing something with my name on it

On another front, I manged to get DDW loaded under wine. It "starts" OK in that the usual image appears. However, I can't get the program to connect to the control box using a COM device. It should work (famous last words). The dos devices (like COM1, OOM2, etc) are automatically mapped to the /dev/ttyS* devices.

I'll give jpaana's code a shot.

So now I need guidance. I've created a "shallow clone" of indi in a separate directory. There are two main directories: build & indi.
I've downloaded jpaana's directory of indi-ddw_driver.

What's the process of the configure/make/make install?

Thanks.