Getting started with Astroberry for the Raspberry Pi (beginners guide)

[Ian McCallum]

4 hours ago, gilesco said:

Most Raspberry Pi OS images are in this range, once installed you will also want to download the astrometry data, which is few more gigabytes in itself.

I'm glad I've got a large download package on my 4G mobile network! 

[gilesco]

4 minutes ago, Ian McCallum said:

as that's all that's available from the PI Hut, just now. 

That is what is in stock right now.

Would suggest that read their methods of requisitioning equipment, and get on their waiting list, buying out of stock Pi4 stuff is different from going to get eggs at the supermarket.

[Ian McCallum]

31 minutes ago, gilesco said:

That is what is in stock right now.

Would suggest that read their methods of requisitioning equipment, and get on their waiting list, buying out of stock Pi4 stuff is different from going to get eggs at the supermarket.

That's what I ordered the other day and arrived today, so that will have to suffice (for the moment).  I can always get a larger one later and use this one to learn on, or do other projects with it.

[astrojon77]

FYI I have Astroberry running on my RPi4 with 4GB RAM right now: Ekos and Kstars are loaded, PHD2 has just finished calibrating and the imaging is in progress. Memory usage comes in at ~900MB, so about 25% of my system.

So it seems to me that a 2GB RPi system should be fine, unless you do something I don’t with Astroberry

Edited January 19, 2022 by astrojon77

[BigBobbyD]

I need some help.  the first thing I tried on Astroberry was a sudo apt-get update and upgrade and receive the following error:

astroberry@astroberry:~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Done

The following packages have been kept back:

  indi-astroberry-diy indi-bin indi-toupbase libindi-dev libindi1

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

 

 

Okay, Running sudo apt-get install distro upgrade corrected most of the problem, still have one package not upgrading so instead of fighting this mess, I am doing a new image.  I guess this is mostly solved..😂

Edited January 28, 2023 by BigBobbyD
mostly solved

[Ian McCallum]

7 hours ago, BigBobbyD said:

I need some help.  the first thing I tried on Astroberry was a sudo apt-get update and upgrade and receive the following error:

astroberry@astroberry:~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Done

The following packages have been kept back:

  indi-astroberry-diy indi-bin indi-toupbase libindi-dev libindi1

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

 

 

Okay, Running sudo apt-get install distro upgrade corrected most of the problem, still have one package not upgrading so instead of fighting this mess, I am doing a new image.  I guess this is mostly solved..😂

I'd try this...  sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade