Hi,

this is my first post here, thank you for the indi project, the tools are a pleasure to use!

But now for my question:

I have upgraded my Astroberry to latest software with apt-get dist-upgrade and I have also upgraded my kernel to latest/greatest with rpi-update.

This now gives me two new things:
an alias for the Star Adventurer in Ekos and because of the kernel update I am able to communicate with the USB-to-Serial converter on the Star Adventurer.

I set communication to the Star Adventurer to 115200 bps, this setting works fine for me to connect to the Star Adventurer with the screen command:
screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
I can then manuall enter
:e1
and get back the firmware version of my Star Adventurer (=030B0A)
so communication over serial works.

However, when I try to connect via Ekos I get an error and this log:

astroberry@astroberry:~/.indi/logs/2021-08-01/indi_skywatcherAltAzMount $ cat *
INFO    77.542968 sec    : Session log file /home/astroberry/.indi/logs/2021-08-01/indi_skywatcherAltAzMount/indi_skywatcherAltAzMount_13:29:47.log
DEBUG    90.162609 sec    : Configuration successfully saved.
DEBUG    94.399163 sec    : Connecting to /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Prolific_Technology_Inc._USB-Serial_Controller_DZBCb19B616-if00-port0 @ 115200
DEBUG    94.403656 sec    : Port FD 4
DEBUG    94.403884 sec    : Connection successful, attempting handshake...
DEBUG    96.411632 sec    : Handshake failed.

I could find very little comments in this forum on using Star Adventurer, what is the status of the driver, anything I can help with?

I have already grabbed most of the communication of the app with the device via WiFi, as most of the protocol seems to be documented I am not sure if those captures are of any use or if the AltAzMount already has everything necessary implemented....

Thank you,

Michael

 

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