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Hi,

I am hoping someone can give me some recommendations.

I'm running Astroberry/Kstars and have been using NetGPS on my  android phone to get my location .  Unfortunately I've had to swap my Android phone for an iPhone and I cannot get NetGPS.  

Can anyone using an iPhone give any recommendations on a GPS App to use.

Thanks

Doug

Great Talk and images.

Thanks Nik and everyone else involved in bringing the talks to us.

Doug

Hi,

I was unable to get to watch the live talk last week so it was great to watch it today.

Thanks for uploading this video

Doug

12 hours ago, wimvb said:

https://indilib.org/forum/ekos/2602-simulator-profiles-not-removable.html

May be of interest. I don't know the background for this decision. Maybe Ekos needs a profile present at first startup. But you can create a profile that is not called "simulator", and edit that. Eg, "myTestProfile". Just populate that with simulator drivers. It's also possible to mix "real" hardware drivers with simulator drivers for test purposes.

Thanks,

Once I realised I could not get rid of the simulator profiles I then did as you suggested and labelled them up as 'Test' and then I could p[lay around with my equipment etc and delete at the end.

Unfortunately I'm left with a couple of Simulator Profiles, I'll just have to live with them, a small price to pay for a great bit of software.

Doug 

On 26/05/2020 at 23:12, wimvb said:

The simulator profile can not be deleted in Ekos, because it is used for development purposes. "It's a feature, not a bug."

Hi,

I set up my own profile and called it Simulator and this profile can't be removed even though I set it up.  

Doug

11 minutes ago, noah4x4 said:

A simple Jennov POE (3MP) is a remarkably good bit of kit for merely £35.90 (it's an Amazon "Choice"). The joy is that being POE one cable carries both power and data.  The unit itself is tiny.

However, the issue you need to consider with any CCTV camera is data storage. It will soon fill up a hard drive if continuously recording (say) a 28 day cycle. Ideally, you need a network video recorder (about £100). 

Thanks,

Ill have a look

Doug

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Only reason I'm looking into it is due to the fact that I've had a coupe of near misses with my equipment  and software going mental so I thought there may be a way to keep my eye on my equipment from the warmth of my house.

I don't know how people can set everything up, leave it then go to bed, I wouldn't sleep.

I've seen a few Bullet type weather proof CCTV cameras that I may look into as they cost less than £30.00 and I don't need anything fancy.

Doug

Hi,

I'm setting up my imaging rig at the bottom of my garden and I'm thinking about setting up a CCTV type camera to give me an overview of my telescope/mount etc.

I'm thinking of setting this up so I can see my telescope etc on my laptop instead of running out of the house every 10mins to check everything is working properly.

I have a few spare USB 3.0 ports on my powered hub and I was thinking of using one of these.

Has anyone done something similar to this and if so what type of camera did you use.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Doug

Hi,

Thanks for the replies, I've tried hitting the minus button and it doesn't work, for some reason simulator profiles appear to be locked.

I'll live with them for now it would have been nice to tidy everything up.

Doug

Just set mine up using the Flirc case and so far it's great.

A big learning curve for me but I've got time on my hands at the moment.

I'm sure you'll enjoy using the Rpi.

Doug

Great idea, I'll be there

Doug

39 minutes ago, wornish said:

I have been running my RPi4 off USB3 SSD for almost year.  Yes it still has a small (cheap)  SD card as well but then that is only used for the initial firmware loading.  The performance difference is massive.

I have made a few posts on this topic that give links and storage benchmark info.

I will wait until it comes out in the next release of Raspbian though rather than risk a Beta.

 

I'm doing the same and waiting, in the meantime I'll run my SSD via the micro SD.

Doug

Hi,

Whilst learning to use Astroberry on my laptop, I ended up setting up a number of Simulators Profiles in Ekos.  Now that I've hopefully got all my equipment working I was wondering if there is a way to remove some of these profiles as I cannot remove or edit them as they appear to be locked.

I'm just trying to tidy up the profile list in Ekos.

Thanks

Doug  

Hi,

I'm new to all this so don't fully understand it so won't be able to do it yet but here is the link to the forum discussing it.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=274595

Doug

I see there is now a beta update for the Rpi4 so you can boot from the Usb3. 0 port without the SD card. 

Doug 

Hi Radek,

Somehow and I don't exactly know how I've managed to get my phone NMEA GPS picked up by Kstars/Ekos, it identifies my location which is the main thing I want and the GPS panel is also showing Liverpool where I live which is fine with me.

Now that I've got this working I will leave it as it is.

I've got a couple of back-up SD cards with everything on them and I will use one of these over the next couple of days to try using my phone as a GPS data source and system-wide GPSD service as per your comments above, we will see what happens

Doug

35 minutes ago, RadekK said:

Yes, you are almost done. Just disable Virtual GPS by running: sudo systemctl stop virtualgps.service && sudo systemctl disable virtualgps.service

Hi Radek,

I've just done the above and rebooted my Rpi4.

After stopping the virtual GPS I went back into KStars/Ekos and started my test file with NMEA drivers selected.  Ekos loaded everything correctly and I got a GPS fix for my location however the GPS Information did not change it just kept flashing up 'waiting'.  I kept my GPS on for about 20 minutes with a 60 second update and still the GPS information failed to change.

So I'll either have to move to Warsaw or forget about it, I take it wont interfere with anything in Kstars / Ekos.

Once I have the initial GPS fix for Ekos can I stop/disable the GPS app on my phone as it is very power intensive.

Thanks

Doug

19 minutes ago, RadekK said:

Yes, you are almost done. Just disable Virtual GPS by running: sudo systemctl stop virtualgps.service && sudo systemctl disable virtualgps.service

Thanks very much for your help.

Astroberry is great and just what I want but it has been a massive learning curve.

I had to start learning some basic coding  and have started to work my way around the software and all the protocols etc.   Once up and running the softwate appears to be very similar to software I've used in the past.

Thaks again for all your hard work

Doug

2 hours ago, stash_old said:

 And I have 1 hairless pink Chiwawa that eats Rottweilers(all 10) for breakfeast - Police trained or not - and then spits out the bones to make an Astroberry Focuser.

Also its a trained thief and has a nick name - "The Pink Panther" LOL

LOL, I have a Border Terrier that will lick you to death.

Hi Radek & Stash,

Ok, so the below is correct and I've managed to set up the GPS app on my phone to work correctly with Kstars / Ekos

Do I need to change anything else within Kstars/Ekos for the GPS information in Astroberry to change to show my location and the GPS info.  At the moment it is just flashing away with the words 'waiting'.  

May I have to disable Virtual GPS.

Doug

Hi,

Yesterday evening I bought two GPS apps for my phone (ShareGPS & NetGPS) to try with Astroberry.

I followed some posts/videos on how to set these up and I managed to connect them to Astroberry.

When I started Ekos using a test profile with the  NMEA driver everything loaded and a fix was obtained however when the information came up in Ekos the longnitude details were wrong instead of it being -2.xxxx it was showing 357.xxxx. the time and  date were also wrong.  It did exactly the same with both GPS Apps.

Does anyone know why this is happening.

I've nearly got it sorted but something is just not right.

Doug

9 hours ago, RadekK said:

I promise that I will add nice looking GUI to edit location in the next release!

In the meantime run

sudo nano /etc/location.conf

When asked enter astroberry password.

When finished editing your location use Ctrl+o to save and Ctrl+x to exit. Reboot and you will be at home 😉

Thanks

Doug

51 minutes ago, fozzybear said:

have a look at your /etc/location.conf file and change the settings to your locale...

mine is like this

[default]
latitude  = 49.3901
longitude = -1.5327
elevation = 30
 

Dam just gave away my location nothing to steal from me anyway.... I,ve got 10 Rottweilers  by the way and all police trained....

 

Hi, 

Tried this and it stated permission denied

Doug

Hi,

Can anyone provide me with details of a GPS dongle that works with Astroberry.

I'm fed up seeing Warsaw and I have been unable to change the virtual GPS to show my location.  I've changed my Geographical Location and rebooted my system but it just keeps showing Warsaw and flashes up 'waiting'.

The GPS will be handy when out and about.

Thanks

Doug