Renzo created a new topic ' launch Indiserver on linux laptop' in the forum. 1 year ago

Hi everyone.
I have an EQ6 mount and other devices compatible with INDI, which I usually use with an Astroberry RPi4. However, this post is about connecting them via a laptop with Linux (sometimes I have to use this setup), by using EKOS.
My laptop runs Opensuse Tumbleweed, updated, with kernel 6.2.10, latest version of Kstars and libindi (indiserver says version 2.0.1, Protocol 1.7).
In order to connect my EQ6 mount (old version, black, serial port, handset version 3) and bypass the handset, I have to use a serial-to-usb EQDIR cable with the FTDI R232 chipset. The "ftdi_sio" module (and also modules "usbcore" and "usbserial" as dependencies) is loaded at startup, and the dmesg command correctly recognises plugging in and unplugging of the cable: see screenshot.


Also, the stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 command spits out the following:
Speed 9600 baud, line = 0;
-brkint -imaxbel
I'm not an expert of stty, but it seems to me this is quite standard and there should not be any big issue.
Anyway, when I start Ekos and try to connect the mount with the correct EQmod driver, the Indi log at the bottom is stuck on just the first line, saying: “Starting INDI services…” and nothing else happens. Also, looking at the text Log files in “/home/user/.local/share/kstars/logs”, there’s a constant line printed by INDI: [ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Driver "EQMod Mount" failed to start. Retrying in 5 seconds…” and of course after 5 seconds the same warning again.

I also tried to launch the command “sudo service indiserver status” before running ekos, but and it says “no such service indiserver”.
Therefore I think the problem may be that INDI is not started and I cannot start it for some reason.
Any suggestion on this, please?

Thanks in advance
Renzo

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