#STELLARIUM CELESTRON NEXSTAR SERIAL#

Now, connect your USB to Serial port adaptor to one of your available ports in the Raspberry Pi and connect the other side to the telescope. Identify the device uid assigned by the kernel to the serial port, aka ttyUSB0 Usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic Usb 1-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: generic converter detected Run dmesg command and you shall see lines like $ dmesg Run the next lsusb command to identify the USB device to be $ lsusbīus 001 Device 002: ID $ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x4358 product=0x2523 Remote stellarium control server running at port 5000 to a nextar telescope You should specify -t and -i arguments with your telescope type and file to the device file $ nts -s stellarium -p 5050 -t nexstar -i /dev/ttyS0 Start a nts instance to control your telescope. This command starts a Stellarium control server listenning at port 5050 connected to a Nexstar (Celestron telescopes) sending commands to /dev/ttyS0 device. Now the Node Telescope Server (nts) is ready to receive instructions to move your telescope to the desired target.

Next step is to connect this nts instance with the Stellarium software. Open Stellarium and press Ctrl+0 or go to the telescopes window. Add a new telescope and choose the External software or remote computer.

Then choose a desired name for your telescope, for example 'NodeJS-RaspberryPI'. Then specify the ip assigned to the RaspberryPI and the port listening by nts instance, in my case 192.168.5. Telescope Nexstar: Remote stellarium control server running at port 5000 to a nexstar telescopeĭisabled remote web control server running at port 5001 to a nextar telescope Telescope Stellarium Dummy: Remote stellarium control server running at port 4001 to a dummy telescope Telescope Dummy: Remote dummy control server running at port 4000 to a dummy telescope (because my Raspberry is configured as a AP gateway). This command starts several servers defined in the config.json file.

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