Are you using mains power for your Mac? One advantage to remote-desktop-ing in to a low-power PC, vs. exploiting INDI's remote-client setup, is that your photography can last as long as your Ubuntu box has power. If you're running KStars/Ekos in the field from a MacBook, say, then when the laptop's battery goes, so does your session. If you're using VNC or some such, your Mac only has to last long enough to get things started and peek in once in awhile. Not as elegant technically, but IMHO more robust in practice.

BTW the Apple Screen Sharing app works fine too.

I typically run my raspberry pi and imaging setup off a 100 amp hour battery. I have a separate battery for my mac, but it also has decent battery life to start with. But i have never really had to test that theory yet because just about everywhere i have been observing, i have been able to connect my laptop somewhere on site to ac power and connect wirelessly to the pi/scope.

Absolutely! When I am out in the field, far from commercial power (which is basically everywhere in Uganda, where 94% of the country has none), then I use Kstars/Ekos on the NanoPC and it works fine. But here at my house, I get to image from my roof, and I just wanted to try running KStars directly off the MacBook - which is so much faster than going through VNC. And yes, I use Apple's screen sharing ap that comes with OSX. The "Chicken of the VNC" ap has much faster screen updates, but messes up when you try to zoom and out.

No, you're not missing anything. I was missing coffee at 2:30am last night. I realized today that I was using the wrong IP address in EKOS on the Mac, which is why it couldn't find Indi Web Manager. Today, after some strong Ugandan coffee - it's running perfectly!
Thanks!

Problem solved! I just needed more coffee at 2:30am. I had the wrong IP address! System working perfectly now!

It’s a nice clear tonight tonight so I’m up on the roof and all is working perfectly. I’m capturing the Seagull Nebuka in NB. The MacBook is connected and running the show without a flaw, and the NanoPC is saving the 32mb files on it’s internal 480gb SSD, which is virtually instantaneous. Much better than having the files download to the Mac.

I wish the Ubuntu version of EKOS was as stable on the NanoPC as the OSC version is on my MacBook Air. But all month I have been struggling with frequent crashes that are new, and I haven’t seen a pattern to hint at why. Additionally on the NanoPC my ASI1600 would occasionally lock up when running EKOS on it. So far tonight, not a single problem even though the camera is still connected to the same Ubuntu box and running under the same version of INDI. So the issue was with EKOS not INDI or the PC.

Glad to hear it worked out.

Sorry guys, i have to hang in at this point here, because that does NOT work for me.

Let me recap. You say i only have to start my linux machine. Do nothing there. And then i start KStars on my mac and go to indi webmanager and connect? The only thing i get then is "this website is not reachable"...

If i start the indiserver via "indi-web" command on the linux machine, it works.

So it seems I am missing something here, or not?

cheers
Niki

I have coded in an autostart so that when my Linux box boots, it starts the web server automatically. Additionally, I have set up my Linux box to start a WIFI network automatically - which is how I am able to connect to it from my Macbook. So..

1. Set up the Linux machine to start a WIFI network upon booting. Note what this wifi network IP address is.

2. Download the IndiWebManager.service file to your Linux box, then copy it to /etc/systemd/system. Instructions are here:

github.com/knro/indiwebmanager

Once installed, follow the directions to AUTOSTART this server upon booting. The instructions are on the same page above.

3. Reboot the Linux box and then go to your Mac.
4. Wait and select the new wifi network that the Linux box just created.
5. Launch KSTars on the Mac.
6. Set up the INDI server configuration on the Mac, with all your equipment. Be sure to select web manager and to enter the IP address of the Linux Box's new wifi network.

Are you guys missing the INDI Web Manager checkbox - just below the word "guiding" ?

No i am not missing the checkbox. But PK says it clearly. He is starting the indiserver on startup automatically. So, the server HAS to be started somehow before...
Not a Problem for me since my Indiserver is a Laptop running Linux.
When i set up my system, i have to start my laptop anyway, so its not a thing to type "indi-web" into it.
Didn´t chek how to make a autostarting script until now on my KDE-Plasma system, have to learn that before.
Just wanted to know if the server has to be started before somehow, and looks like it has...

cheers
Niki

Yes I think you are missing something, you should not have to do that,
Start Linux machine with INdI and INdI web manger installed....you have that by the sound of it...
start MAC and then Kstars / Ekos, then in your Ekos profile you have it set to remote, and put the Linux PC network name or IP address in the box, check the auto start box, and save, then connect and that’s it...simples...