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Yet another installer for Raspberry Pi, now with Ubuntu 18.04 support

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Hi All,

Wanted to share my installer for Raspberry Pi, now with Ubuntu 18.04 support.
It is a very simple shell script, all in one file.
I also have a makefile which does the same job, but it is more of an experiment at this time.

Here what it does:
  1. Installs most commonly used Astrophotography software: INDI, Kstars,PHD2,CCDCiel,Skychart,Astrometry with sextractor.
  2. Sets up Wireless Access Point using create_ap method
  3. Sets up x11vnc to be started automatically
  4. Configures screen to be 1920x1080 for headless operation
  5. Configures USB to provide up to 1A of current to connected devices
  6. Configures the onboard serial port for controlling an external device
Here is the link to the project on Github:
github.com/avarakin/astropi
Feel free to clone, test and fork.
Comments and Constructive Criticism are welcome.

Alex
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4 years 11 months ago #38100

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I have done some testing of the 18.04 build and here are some results:
1. For some reason display has very low resolution in headless mode despite all the settings in /boot/config.txt
2. Kstars is prone to crashing, especially in autofocus tab. Here is a stack trace I captured:

(gdb)
#0 __memcpy_neon () at ../sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memcpy_impl.S:633
#1 0x005c4bec in memcpy (__len=128, __src=0x6be78a2a, __dest=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bits/string_fortified.h:34
#2 FITSData::findCannyStar<unsigned short> (data=data@entry=0x33210a0, boundary=...) at ./kstars/fitsviewer/fitsdata.cpp:1135
#3 0x005c6f34 in FITSData::findCannyStar (data=data@entry=0x33210a0, boundary=...) at ./kstars/fitsviewer/fitsdata.cpp:1031
#4 0x005c7012 in FITSData::findStars (this=0x33210a0, algorithm=ALGORITHM_GRADIENT, trackingBox=...) at ./kstars/fitsviewer/fitsdata.cpp:1070
#5 0x0058d20c in FITSView::findStars (this=<optimized out>, algorithm=<optimized out>, searchBox=...) at ./kstars/fitsviewer/fitsview.cpp:1557
#6 0x007044f0 in Ekos::Focus::setCaptureComplete (this=this@entry=0x38b5a08) at ./kstars/ekos/focus/focus.cpp:1281
#7 0x00705a74 in Ekos::Focus::newFITS (this=0x38b5a08, bp=<optimized out>) at ./kstars/ekos/focus/focus.cpp:1208
#8 0x7584983a in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5
#9 0x005e10aa in ISD::GDInterface::BLOBUpdated (this=<optimized out>, _t1=<optimized out>) at ./obj-arm-linux-gnueabihf/kstars/KStarsLib_autogen/FRI4DANIHA/moc_indistd.cpp:394
#10 0x7584983a in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5
#11 0x00596a4a in FITSView::loadInFrame (this=0x371f448) at ./kstars/fitsviewer/fitsview.cpp:423
#12 0x7584983a in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5
#13 0x756ee0d2 in QFutureWatcherBase::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Core.so.5
#14 0x75f33af2 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Widgets.so.5
#15 0x75f392d8 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libQt5Widgets.so.5
#16 0x0371f474 in ?? ()
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Is anyone able to run Ekos on RPI under Ubuntu 18.04 without crashes?
I see that other forum members have the issue with crashes.
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