Nexstar Raspberry Pi Controller

[Gina]

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

Edited October 7, 2016 by Gina

[Gina]

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...

[Gina]

Blink is working   Now to install the INDI library...

Edited October 8, 2016 by Gina

[Gina]

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

Edited October 8, 2016 by Gina

[tekkydave]

Use wget followed by the url

Then to extract:

tar xvfz <filename.tar.gz>

this is same as method used for bcm2385. To work out the url find the download link in a browser and hover over it or right click - there is usually a way to discover it.

[Gina]

Thanks Dave - thought I was missing something    File name looks like being libindi_1.2.0_rpi.tar.gz

[Gina]

http://indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi/send/6-raspberry-pi/9-indi-library-for-raspberry-pi.html

[tekkydave]

I often download to my ubuntu desktop then transfer to pi using scp

cd to wherever the file has been downoaded to, then

scp file.tar.gz pi@192.168.1.95:

You will need to enter Pi's password when prompted. It will put file in /home/pi

 

[tekkydave]

Off to work now. 

[Gina]

sudo wget http://indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi/send/6-raspberry-pi/9-indi-library-for-raspberry-pi.html  worked

[Gina]

Have a problem.

[Gina]

Think I'm getting confused again - time for a cuppa!!

[Gina]

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.

[tekkydave]

I think u have d'loaded web page not file.

[Gina]

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.

Edited October 8, 2016 by Gina

[tekkydave]

You are in root dir too

cd

To get to yr home dir

[Gina]

Oops - missed a bit.  After the wget and much fiddling here's the first part of the proper bit .

[tekkydave]

Sorry for terse replies Im on phone browser with tiny keyboard.

[Mick J]

Great thread from you two, nice to follow 

[Gina]

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

[Gina]

Beer Wurlitzer Organ  

 

[Gina]

Right then... where was I?  Process so far :-

1. Downloaded Raspian Jessie Lite
2. Wrote Raspbian image to 8GB micro SD card
3. Downloaded Putty (for windoze) and installed on W7 desktop
4. Ran Putty, set up, and connected to RPi
5. Ran the rasp-config and expanded the partition to fill the card
6. Downloaded and installed bcm2385 library
7. Ran blink and checked that the GPIO pin wiggled between 0v and 1.3v
8. Downloaded INDI-full library and installed plus dependencies.

[Gina]

Now trying to install Astroberry driver.

On 07/10/2016 at 10:17, tekkydave said:

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/astroberry/svn/trunk/ astroberry-svn
mkdir indi-astroberry cd indi-astroberry
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../astroberry-svn
make
sudo make install

Went so far through and then got a couple of errors

[Gina]

Seem to be lacking file - RTIMULib.h

[tekkydave]

You are missing a library. Not sure how to get it. My install didn't fail on this. I think it's mentioned in the INSTALL file in the astroberry directory.