geehalel/npindi

Native Python INDI package

npindi's Issues

INDI.py crashed

Dear Geehalel,

First let me thank you for the awesome work you did. Before looking at the projet, I did not even know that PyQt featured such awesome capabilities.
You basically rebuilt a basic mechanical simulation render engine + planetarium software from scratch, I think it is really outstanding work, and I am probably going to use this a lot.

Although I found that it is a great idea to have a native indi python client, I fear a bit more about the maintainability of such approach, and I will try to see if I can reimplement the simulator your wrote with the regular swig version of the client.
I think I managed to connect some things correctly for now, but I did not managed to launch the view3D app to run in a new thread (using Threading, I got a dark window), I think there is a lot more for me to understand about your software.

Back to npindi apps, when I try to run the mount3d app with the indi telescope simulator, it ends up crashing with:

npindi: Telescope Simulator: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/projects/npindi/apps/mount3D/view3D.py", line 83, in setCoord
pon = INDI.IUFindOnSwitch(self.pierside)
File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/npindi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/indi/INDI.py", line 154, in IUFindOnSwitch
for sp in svp.vp.values():
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'vp'
Aborted (core dumped)

Am I doing something wrong here ?
Thank you in advance for your help, but I wanted to let you know that I am not in a hurry of getting an answer though, I need quite a bit of time to understand how you wrote the simulator.

What is GAST

Dear Geehalel,

I am still working on the telescope simulator. However I discovered that there is a webpage referenced in one of you comment that is not available anymore:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/GAST.php

I am trying to understand what the getGAST method is doing. It looks like it has to do with geometrical calibration, but I don't know what is corresponds to.

Thank you in advance for your help

Take a picture

i have a canon 5d mark II on the indi server. And i can connect to it. But what must be done to take picture wit the client lib ;o)
I toggle switch but my cam doesnt take a picture. Has anyone a simple example without GUI ?

Thank you
Hexxter