Gina
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No worries Dave - been out anyway - so I apologise for not replying or posting Been out with our local village social group to a Wurlitzer Organ concert at Beer in East Devon preceded by lunch at a local restaurant. A refurbished cinema organ installed in a church - the oldest in the U.K. Wonderful
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Oops - missed a bit. After the wget and much fiddling here's the first part of the proper bit .
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Sorted it out - finger trouble I thought that for a while, however it works Here's a screenshot of the commands and part of the processing.
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The RPi HAT has arrived in the post this morning - looks good Connections from connector brought out to power lines and numbered GPIO pads. Should save a fair bit of work as compared with just stripboard and hence worth the price I'll order another. Also in the post - the Netgear gigabit HomePlug WiFi access point - PLW1000 and a couple of 8GB micro SD cards.
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Think I'm getting confused again - time for a cuppa!!
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Have a problem.
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sudo wget http://indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi/send/6-raspberry-pi/9-indi-library-for-raspberry-pi.html worked
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http://indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi/send/6-raspberry-pi/9-indi-library-for-raspberry-pi.html
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Thanks Dave - thought I was missing something File name looks like being libindi_1.2.0_rpi.tar.gz
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Installed the dependences - fine - but next stage came up against a problem... INDI info tells you to download the library in rpi.tar.gz format from web site - don't know how to do that from the CLI
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Blink is working Now to install the INDI library...
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bcm2835 library added using wget http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.50.tar.gz tar xvfz bcm2835-1.50.tar.gz cd bcm2835-1.50 ./configure make sudo make install Next to try Blink...
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That's it for my fiddling for tonight - I shall now shut down using sudo shutdown -h -P now as recommended in this article. Night all
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After changing options I did :- sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && reboot
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Regarding setting up headless or using the GUI and disabling the GUI later, I think overall I would prefer setting up headless. But then I was brought up on machine code, assembler and the CLI Always my overriding consideration with programming was to avoid bloat. This resulted in my software being smaller and faster than most
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Seems to me if you have a static IP set up and use the CLI to shut down and reboot properly the SD card should not be trashed - but what do I know about it I don't remove the power to reboot I use sudo reboot in the CLI (or if available, the GUI). And now I shall use sudo shutdown -h now to shut down. Using windoze a fair bit has got me used to not just pulling the plug to shut down or reboot.
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Thoughts on which imaging rigs to concentrate on
Gina replied to Gina's topic in Imaging - Discussion
Quite so My thought too. -
A modicum of success Installed Putty in my Win7 desktop and connected RPi 3 running Raspbian Jessie Lite to the router by Ethernet cable. Using desktop, logged into router with FireFox and read the IP address it had assigned to the RPi 3. Ran Putty and put the IP address into Putty, confirmed that I was connecting to the right computer and the RPi CLI window came up. Logged into the RPi using default username and password (pi and raspberry) and - voila! - connected and logged in to RPi from the desktop. Now I can copy/paste command lines from web pages to RPi CLI. Next operations I have in mind are to change user to root with NOPASSWORD to save fiddling with permissions and set up WiFi with fixed IP. Then I can install bcm2835 library followed by INDI library and Astroberry. No need for GUI or TeamViewer nor other apps such as FireFox as I presume the CLI will automatically connect to the net and download apps and libraries as required.
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Thoughts on which imaging rigs to concentrate on
Gina replied to Gina's topic in Imaging - Discussion
Been looking into the axle bearings and fixings for the east end fold down flap/window on my observatory. Originally had 3D printed brackets with plain bearings. The wind got up the other night and ripped off the polycarbonate window & frame, breaking the brackets. I have decided that ABS is not strong enough to hold the window (8ft long by 2ft high) against high winds (catches the wind like a sail!!) and have decided to spare no expense and buy a pair of pillow block bearings. These will bolt through the framework of the observatory. UCP206-18 Imperial Cast Iron Two Bolt Pillow / Plummer Block Housing with 1-1/8 inch Bore Insert Using sealed ball bearings and cast iron pillow blocks may seem over engineering (which it is) but thirty quid spent on a pair of brackets is not that much and would save me a lot of work if I were to make something strong enough myself. -
Remote control :- From Linux ssh From Windows Putty
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Install and configure Raspbian Jessie Lite How to setup WiFi on Raspbian Jessie Lite
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Bit better now thank you Dave Not going to try anything heavy but might just have a play. May try Raspbian Jessie Lite which I gather is a headless distro and tiny - downloading it now and it's only a few hundred megabytes. Seems it will fit in just 2BG micro SD card but other stuff like INDI library etc. will add to it. I'm quite used to CLI working so headless should be OK - just a couple of things I need to know to set things up. Setting up WiFi but I think you covered that earlier - if I can get it to work. And I would like to control and install stuff remotely - wonder if TeamViewer would work Doesn't matter very much - I can sit at the table and use the human interface hardware rather than working from my main desktop PC
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No - it's not a cheapo card it's a Kingston Class 10
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Looks like it's just no good trying to get anything at all to work today coz' it just won't. I could do with going out and getting some groceries but I don't feel up to driving Back on topic... I thought I'd do a fresh Ubuntu Mate system and wrote the image to a micro SD card. That worked but when I tried the card in the RPi 3 nothing worked properly. First job was to get WiFi working which I did after five attempts with lots of rebooting. The tried starting FireFox to download TeamViewer so that I can set up remotely with my decent monitor. I had to reboot twice before FireFox would start. Also, everything is running extremely slowly - even slower than windoze and that's saying something!!! Previous RPi systems have flown compared with windoze. I just don't know what to do - I'm fed up
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I guess I ought to do something really but I don't feel up to much today...
