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Indi driver support for Pegasus Pocket Powerbox

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I have a new Pegasus Pocket Powerbox Advance and am having trouble getting it talking to ekos. When I add it to my profile it goes through the port mapping exercise and says it is now mapped to /dev/pegasusppba. The web interface shows the mapping also. When I try and run I get the message:

[ERROR] Failed to connect to port (/dev/pegasusppba). Error: Port failure Error: No such file or directory. Check if device is connected to this port.

if I ls /dev/p* I don't see the device. rebooting rPi4, power cycling ppba doesn't fix it. If I start over and use the web interface to do port mapping I get same result?

If I enable auto search then try and connect it works provided my mount is connected direct to the rPi. If the mount is connected to the usb hub in the pegasus I cannot establish communication with the pegasus or the mount even with auto search enabled. This can be fixed by pointing directly to the device in /dev/serial/by-id

If I remap the mount (Rainbow Astro) I can get it working except it will not sync time, location works. Maybe this is normal due to the hub??
Last edit: 3 years 1 month ago by Thomas Mason. Reason: learned more
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A simple restart didn't fix it just to confirm?
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I used to have this issue with my UPB, I stopped using the serial mapper with it, and it’s worked ever since, for some reason it does not work with the serial port it assigns....
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I was able to get it working by ignoring the serial mapper and just putting the /dev/serial/by-id name in directly. I also found I had to redo mapping of my mount when it was plugged in to the Pegasus usb hub.

My residual issues, which persist over reboots, are that ekos no longer is able to get time from my mount although it still grabs location. Ekos also complains the RST-135 is not connected even though it is and I can drive the mount as usual. I have a GPS dongle so can use that for time also although it only works connected directly to the rPi, not via Pegasus hub.

The hub does appear to confuse things a bit. (note cameras not connected so that is expected)

2021-02-14T11:47:01 Unable to establish remote devices:
+ Canon DSLR
+ ZWO CCD
+ Rainbow RST-135
Please ensure remote device name corresponds to actual device name.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Guider port from Rainbow RST-135 is ready.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Rainbow RST-135 is online.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Rainbow RST-135 is online.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Rainbow RST-135 is online.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Pegasus PPBA is online.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Manual Filter filter is online.
2021-02-14T11:46:47 INDI services started. Connection to remote INDI server is successful. Waiting for devices...
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Connecting to remote INDI server at stellarmatew.macgmason.us on port 7,624 ...
2021-02-14T11:46:47 Starting profile on remote INDI Web Manager...
2021-02-14T11:46:46 Establishing communication with remote INDI Web Manager...

from RST-135:

2021-02-14T18:46:51: [INFO] Observer location updated: Latitude 35:40:26.8 (35.6741) Longitude -105:55:37.7 (-105.927)
2021-02-14T18:46:49: [INFO] Observer location updated: Latitude 35:40:26.8 (35.6741) Longitude -105:55:37.7 (-105.927)
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Device configuration saved.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Saving device configuration...
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Device configuration saved.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Saving device configuration...
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Device configuration saved.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Saving device configuration...
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Device configuration applied.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Simulating Pier Side disabled.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [WARNING] Telescope is Parked, Unpark before changing track mode.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Observer location updated: Latitude 35:40:26.8 (35.6741) Longitude -105:55:37.5 (-105.927)
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Dome Policy set to: Dome ignored. Mount can park or unpark regardless of dome parking state.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Loading device configuration...
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [WARNING] Could not process mount date and time: :GC02/14/21T00:00:00
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [WARNING] Failed to get site latitude from device.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Mount is parked.
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Detected firmware 201218
2021-02-14T18:46:48: [INFO] Rainbow RST-135 is online.
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I have manually changed all my serial devices to the symlinks that you find on /dev/serial/by-id/ folder.

Additionally I have reconfigured GPSD to a manual serial device as I found that by default it seemed to open any serial device to see if it was a GPS device.

Since doing the above all my devices consistently open correctly.
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