Gina

Thanks Ken - I'll try that

Created a file SSH without extension in Windows and copied it to my Linux box ready to copy to the SD card. The file list in TeamViewer showed the type as "File" but when I listed it in Linux it had grown a ".txt" extension And SSH.txt will NOT enable SSH. This is silly!!!! One last thing to try before ordering a NOOBS micro SD card for the RPi - NOOBS includes Raspbian and has SSH enabled by default - and that's to download NOOBS and write that to the card. Wish me luck... I wonder why they decided to turn SSH OFF by default

Found this Can't find out how to create a file without an extension though Stuck again - guess it must be bedtime!!!!!!

Checked the RPi LAN connection - fine. Tried all these :- gina@gina-mint-PI ~ $ ssh pi@raspberrypi ssh: connect to host raspberrypi port 22: Connection refused gina@gina-mint-PI ~ $ ssh pi@192.168.1.80 ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.80 port 22: Connection refused gina@gina-mint-PI ~ $ sudo ssh pi@192.168.1.80 [sudo] password for gina: ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.80 port 22: Connection refused gina@gina-mint-PI ~ $

Well, I installed Raspbian onto the card and put the card into the RPi and tried to SSH into it but it wouldn't I dunno - why won't anything work? Guess I'll have to give up Maybe try again tomorrow but don't know if that will make any difference - think I need help...

Taking the plunge - going to install on a new 8GB card. Now downloading Raspbian Jessie Lite January 2017.

Unpacked and installed using the commands:- $ tar -xzf libindi_1.3.1_rpi.tar.gz $ cd libindi_1.3.1_rpi $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb Then tried :- $ indiserver -m 100 -vv indi_rpifocus indi_rpibrd indi_asi_ccd indi_asi_wheel But only the camera worked and showed in Ekos. I have a feeling that some of the stuff already installed is upsetting things. Starting completely afresh now seems best.

Making sense of it now... I had the new libindi in the wrong place - now moved it to /home/pi.

Directory structure is the same as any Linux distro as expected.

This is getting really depressing I wonder if I can would out a plan of attack then see if it works. One thing that seems to confuse is the directory structure of the RPi software installation. Must see if I can sort this out.

Tried installing latest libindi but it didn't work Looks like I shall have to wipe the clone SD and install Raspbian Jessie and the all the INDI stuff etc. I don't know why this keeps going wrong, I've set up several RPi from scratch. Though it was with an earlier version of libindi before indi_asi_wheel driver was added.

That looks like just what I want once I get my RPi set up correctly - thank you very much

Realised I didn't actually need the FW connected to check for the driver so just ran indiserver -m 100 -vv indi_rpifocus indi_rpibrd indi_asi_ccd indi_asi_wheel and got this :- So not installed. Then did an update, upgrade and reboot and tried again but still get the same result I would have thought that an upgrade would get the latest libindi but it seems not. Aarrgghh!! Back to square one Should I start again with a clean OS and install libindi and all the rest again? Or is there a quicker way? I now have one system with Astroberry stuff and no ZWO EFW and another with ZWO EFW and no Astroberry

So far so good - have camera, Astroberry focus and Astroberry card working Next will be to upgrade libindi to include the ZWO EFW which wasn't included when this system was set up I don't think. I'll try it first though as I don't know whether the new driver was available on my last upgrade. The EFW is currently out in the observatory and it's raining heavily so won't be getting it until the rain stops.

I've backed up the system from my ASC Mark 6 and written onto a new micro SD card. Tried same size at first (8GB) but the source was very slightly bigger than the destination so wouldn't fit so I had to use a bigger card. Now to try it...

I'll do that tomorrow. Either Win32DiskImager in Windows or dd in Linux. Just need to be sure I understand dd - looks simple

Had a better thought - clone the micro SD card in the ASC and put the clone in the imaging rig RPi.

For the scope rig I shall only want the Astroberry Focuser driver apart from all the standard ones. There's plenty of room so I can use an already made HAT with Pololu stepper driver module and buck converter.

Had a thought. ATM I'm not using any of the Astroberry controls in my ASC Mark 6 - the new lens is so much better in illuminating the camera sensor that I don't need long exposures and camera cooling (which I provided myself with a Peltier TEC controlled with Astroberry Board driver). Without the cooling the camera seems to generate enough heat to keep the dome clear of dew so I'm not currently using the dew heaters. So the thought is to swap the micro SD between ASC and imaging rig. That should give me GPIO for my imaging rig. Second thought - if I do that I'll need to set up WiFi in the new RPi system, which it hasn't got ATM.

Yes there are some in there - three now I think whereas there was only one when I first started using PI. Haven't looked to see what they do yet - need to get INDI working first. I have INDI working fine with the ASC including Astroberry drivers and GPIO but having problem with the latest RPi setup.

Actually, I think the clouds are starting to come in. When I went out I looked up at the sky and there was Orion shining brightly in a clear area of sky. After shutting up and proceeding westwards towards the house I could see lots of clouds in the west. All the same I'm totally fed up with the Win7 laptop and not very keen on windoze generally. Must see if I can sort out that permissions problem with the Astroberry drivers and accessing the BCM2835. Apparently the problem is that the BCM GPIO driver uses direct memory access to connect the GPIO lines and that needs administrator permissions. I tried running indiserver with sudo but that didn't do it. I feel I'm nearly there with INDI but struggling to get that last mile!

I suppose I'd better go out, close the roof and shut everything down in the observatory There goes another clear night

Took imaging rig out to observatory and set everything up. At first things worked and I was able to focus the scope on the far trees with the remote focussing system. SharpCap was working as was CdC and mount controls. Started off with Lum filter for speed as it was getting dark then changed to Ha 3nm and upped the exposure to 10s and refocused. Then tried to slew to Andromeda Nebula to see how good the pointing was. At that point SharpCap stopped working properly - exposing for 30s or more when set to 4s and not updating the image. Tried APT and that wasn't working It's obviously wasting my time even trying to work with the Win7 laptop. I shall just have to give up any ideas of imaging until I get the RPi system working.

FF to camera = 46.5mm Add 6.5 = 53mm Ah!!! Needs another 1.9mm. There are four M42 size connections so Baader Delrin spacers could make that up. Can't find mine so I'll order another lot!! 3x0.6mm would probably do or 2x0.6+1x0.8. Mix and match for fine adjustment I think it's sorted!!!

Yesssss Got them apart