INDI driver editing

[Astrofriend]

Hi,
I had to do some modifications to my INDI EQMOD driver to let it accept custom gear ratio. Difficult but with help from a friend I could managed it. I have written down how I did it, these instruction can be used for other INDI drivers too.

Here it is:
http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/projects/project-indi-drivers/01-project-indi-driver.html

Hope it can be of some help.

Lars

[mswhin63]

Something I would like to do as well. I use the TICFocuser_ng focuser and I am looking at creating a new driver for INDI by applying the same motor controller for a Telescope Rotator. I am not much on software, mostly hardware.

[Astrofriend]

Hi Malcolm,
It's already very complicated to make small changes to an old INDI driver, to create a new one is much more complicated. At least when not a software developer which I'm not.

I'm working an a new focuser, I will use the open source project MyFocuserPro2 and control it from an Arduino device. Yesterday I setup the Arduino system and got it to run okay. Now I just have to change the code to let it do how I want the focuser to work.

I have it documented here how it proceed:

http://www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/projects/project-motor-focus-driver/01-project-motor-focus-driver.html

Lars