Hi Kaczorek,
2 questions
1. Can you post a screen shot where to find the enable overlay, as well as a screenshot showing Kstars Planetarium with an image overlay s.v.p?
2. Can I script this with a python script - assuming kstars has an API for that?

merci
Pat

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Hi Sebastian,
Thanks for the tip - it certainly reduces the bandwidth load. 1 second, full frame was probably unrealistic!

Question related to the general topic - running Astroberry,
What is the easiest way to solve an image locally and display it in a planetarium program? Kstars doesn.t have that capability.
CDC (Skychart) definitely does - however it doesn't take images.

I'm wondering if I can script the solve and upload of a file to a planetarium program to get it to overlay in realtime?


Thanks
Pat

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Hi,
I'm running full remote, INDI webserver, Ekos, and hopefully ccdCiel/Skychart, but at the moment EKOS and Kstars.

My camera is an SBIG STF-402, and I'm using a telescope simulator to take the place of a barndoor mount (homebrew).

However, when I try to focus at 1 sec updates, the screen freezes for several seconds... This occurs randomly.
I am using the astroberry hotspot .

Question, Is there a way to decrease the latency, by perhaps stopping certain processes that may be causing the delay in the update to my screen on the tablet?

Thanks
Pat Browne

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sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade .... without specifiying any package?

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Hi Radek
Has this been fixed in the new load? If so, can you provide a link to download this version of astroberry?

thanks
Pat

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My friend Jim helped me find the sbig driver and query the version as follows:

strings /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libsbig.so.4|grep LINUX
libsbigudrv Ver 4.84-LINUX

On the raspian system with INDI installed (but not astroberry):

pi@raspberrypi:~/barnDoor $ strings /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libsbig.so.4|grep LINUX
libsbigudrv Ver 4.99-LINUX

4.99 is a must!


I scp'd it from raspian to astroberry and replaced the 4.84 version.
This fixed the problem . The device SBIG-STF402 is recognized and is fully functional

Pat Browne

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My astroberry server cannot connect to my SBIG-402.

Message indicates Device not implemented. Do I need an old driver?

Here is the output from dmesg on the astroberry terminal. The device is working fine:

6470.703424] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 13 using dwc_otg
[16470.833690] usb 1-1.2: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x81 has invalid maxpacket 64
[16470.833703] usb 1-1.2: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x1 has invalid maxpacket 64
[16470.833949] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0d97, idProduct=0102, bcdDevice= 0.01
[16470.833956] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[16470.833960] usb 1-1.2: Product: USB8-CAM Engine
[16470.833965] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: SBIG


Here's the output from INDI when I try to connect to this camera
020-08-22T00:49:16: [ERROR] Failed to connect CCD at port USB 1
2020-08-22T00:49:16: [ERROR] EstablishLink: CC_ESTABLISH_LINK -> (Device not Implemented)
2020-08-22T00:49:08: [ERROR] Failed to connect CCD at port USB 1

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