Thanks - I got a working version of the SestoSenso2 driver now. The limiting factor for me at the moment appears to be my knowledge of the Linux build/distro system. I tried to pull master for the git repo indilib:

git clone github.com/indilib/indi.git --depth=1

I was getting wierd curl errors without the --depth=1 param - probably because I am running the pi on a sketchy wifi link. Once I got the source I could compile/install fine but indiserver would just die on launch.

astroberry@astroberry:~/Projects/master/build/indi $ indiserver -p 7624 -l .indi/logs -vvv -f /tmp/indiFIFO
2020-04-18T22:53:20: startup: indiserver -p 7624 -l .indi/logs -vvv -f /tmp/indiFIFO
2020-04-18T22:53:20: listening to port 7624 on fd 3
Killed

Eventually I resorted to updating the astroberry distribution via apt-get:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libindi1 indi-bin
ls -latr /usr/bin/indi_sestosenso2_focus
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42504 Mar 7 16:00 /usr/bin/indi_sestosenso2_focus

Obviously this is quite an old version and I think I probably lost the fixes that Jasem applied for the trutech wheel recently. I would really have liked to have just installed the sestosenso2 driver.

Why couldn't I build / install from the git sources I wonder? There was no log for the crashed indiserver.

Anyway at least now I know there is a driver for my focuser that works - I confirmed by running the calibration just now. Will see how it performs once fitted to the scope - I noticed it seemed to home itself on disconnect.

Thanks!

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