Patrick, As for INDI, I found a modified version of INDI for Mac OSX at:
https://malgeril.web.cern.ch/malgeril/Software.html It appears that someone had tried to get the INDI lib to work with XEphem on OSX, so I just grabbed the INDI source and it compiled easily with gcc 4.0.1. I believe this is the version that comes with OSX 10.4.10. So, as you suggested, I modified my .cartesduciel file to call out... IndiAutostart=1 IndiServerHost=localhost IndiServerPort=7624 IndiServerCmd=indiserver IndiDriver=celestrongps IndiPort=/dev/cu.usbserial IndiDevice=LX200 Basic IndiTelescope=1 PluginTelescope=0 ManualTelescope=0 The indi server definitely saw the incoming connection from CdC (echoed to terminal since I started indiserver with verbose logging). However, CdC never acknowledged that a connection was made (always reported 'Telescope not connected'). Perhaps I need to set the IndiDevice variable to a different value? I was using a Celestron Nexstar 8i, so maybe the 'indiDevice=LX200 Basic' needs to change to utilize a different command set to the telescope before CdC can verify a connection was made? I am sure that the serial connection was good. I manually sent Nexstar 8i commands to the telescope via a serial terminal program and was able to make the telescope slew, report it's status, etc. A Nexstar 8i communication protocol documentation can be found here: http://www.nexstarsite.com/PCControl/ProgrammingNexStar.htm If it's helpful at all, I can capture the logs from indiserver and send them to you. Thanks, Tony --- In [email protected], Patrick Chevalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > I am very pleased by your message as you are one of the first to confirm that > CdC work on other Mac than mine! > > I have some display problem with the full configuration dialog on Mac so I > disable it for this very first version. I hope it is present in a future > update. > > The temporary solution is to update the configuration using a text editor. > Open the file .cartesduciel.ini in you home directory and change the > following > lines: > IndiAutostart=1 > IndiServerHost=localhost > IndiServerPort=7624 > IndiServerCmd=indiserver > IndiDriver=lx200basic > IndiPort=/dev/ttyS0 > IndiDevice=LX200 Basic > IndiTelescope=1 > PluginTelescope=0 > ManualTelescope=0 > > Change the driver by the one you are using and check how the serial port is > named on the Mac, this config is from Linux. After that the "Connect > telescope" button must work. > > BTW I am interested to know how you compile INDI on the Mac, do you use gcc? > any change to the makefile? > > Patrick >
