herseyc / raspastro

Raspberry Pi Astronomy Stuff

RaspAstro

Just a place to put some of my Raspberry Pi Astronomy Stuff

Base directory contains a set of scripts I use to build out my Raspberry Pi with the software necessary for Electronically Assisted Astronomy or EAA.

I am testing these scripts on Raspberry Pi 64-bit OS, but they should also work on Raspberry Pi 32-bit OS.

I have also tested RaspAstro on Libre Computer Renegade SBC running Armbian Jammy.

RaspAstroWeb

RaspAstroWeb has moved to a dedicated git repository. https://github.com/herseyc/RaspAstroWeb

Visit a live site running RaspAstroWeb at http://vhersey.hopto.org:5000/

Visit my Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA) and Astrophotography site at: http://www.suffolksky.com/

Clone the git repository

mkdir -p ~/Projects
cd ~/Projects
git clone https://github.com/herseyc/raspastro.git
cd ~/Projects/raspastro

In all scripts BUILDDIR is set to Projects by default so if you do the above it will already be set. This downloads the repositories to ~/Projects and does the work in ~/Projects/build

install-raspastro-dependencies.sh

If this is a new Raspberry Pi OS build you will need to install the dependencies.

./install-raspastro-dependencies.sh

This updates the Raspberry Pi and installs the dependencies for INDI, INDI 3rd-Party, PHD2, StellarSolver, and KStars,

install-gpsd.sh

Installs and configures GPSD

./install-gpsd.sh

install-indi.sh

Builds and installs indi-core, selected indi-3rdparty drivers and libraries, and indiwebmanager

Set BUILDDIR, LOGFILE, INDILIBRARIES and INDIDRIVERS in install-indi.sh Set JOBS to 2 if Raspberry Pi has < 4 GB of RAM Only install indi libraries and drivers set in INDILIBRARIES and INDIDRIVERS Cross your fingers...

./install-indi.sh

I install libasi, libqhy, indi-asi, indi-qhy, indi-eqmod, and indi-gpsd since these are the indi drivers I need for my set up. Just add the ones you need to INDILIBRARIES and INDIDRIVERS. OR you can use install-fullindi.sh to install ALL the INDI 3rd-Party Libraries and Drivers.

install-fullindi.sh

Builds and installs indi core, all indi 3rd-party libraries and drivers, and indiwebmanager

Set BUILDDIR and LOGFILE in install-fullindi.sh Set JOBS to 2 if Raspberry Pi has < 4 GB of RAM Cross your fingers...

./install-fullindi.sh

install-indi-driver.sh

Installs an indi-3rdparty driver or library based on user input. Helpful to adding new indi drivers after initial build.

./install-indi-driver.sh

install-phd2.sh

Builds and installs PHD2

./install-phd2.sh

install-kstars.sh

Build and Installs StellarSolver and KStars

Edit script to configure BUILDDIR and LOGFILE (or just use the defaults) Set JOBS to 2 if Raspberry Pi has < 4 GB of RAM

./install-kstars.sh

Shoutout to https://gitea.nouspiro.space/nou/astro-soft-build/ for the great scripts which helped get me going in the right direction.

raspastro's Issues

Asking for information

Hello,
Few months ago i have discovered your site www.suffolksky.com and it contains exactly what i need: articles and tests for EAA with a raspberry pi working as INDI server.

At first i tried to install and use kstars/Ekos on Rpi 3 but it wasn't powerful enough and some compilation of INDI drivers failed, and i destroyed my rpi camera x)...I switched to Rpi 4 and try again. Installation of INDI and drivers succesfull exept for rpicam_driver. My RPi is running on Ubuntu 22.04 but i can't get my camera (ASI 120MC) to work. So, like Obiwan, you seems to be my last hope ^^. I have few questions :

• Should I remove Ubuntu and install raspbian instead. Which OS did you use ?
• I saw in this article you are talking about AstroDMX: can i use it in remote like with INDI and INDI Web manager ?
• Did you try RPI camera ? If yes, what do you think about NoIR version ?
• Have tou ever try this: https://github.com/gehelem/als ? I'm thinking using this software

I think i will have more questions later :). Thank you very much for your work