Tutorial: Remote INDI and INDIWeb on a Raspberry Pi 4

[@jeffpurcell6096]

Useful tutorial, just wish the screens/fonts were larger.

[@RussellValentine]

I'll keep that in mind for other tutorials. Thanks!

[@dlgustavus]

Thanks for the help! I am at the stage of testing the wifi connection from my linux box to a pi on the patio. I can get the indi web manager, so I guess that part is working. I installed astroberry before finding your video, but am afraid it will be too much work on the pi 3b, so would rather use kstars from my linux system. I think I would like to use some of the simulators to test before I consider this step complete. Is there something I can do with no telescope hardware to verify the installation?

[@RussellValentine]

You should be able to use simulators through indiweb and kstars. Indiweb just a nice api to startup drivers for you that kstars is able to use. Just pick the simulators instead of real stuff.

[@profmichaelhuster3268]

I started with a new install of buster on my RPi4. Every thing went fine until I tested by running indi-web -h. It failed with a message "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/indi-web", line 6, in from indiweb.main import main File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/indiweb/main.py", line 11, in from importlib_metadata import version ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'importlib_metadata' What went wring? What can I do from here?

[@RussellValentine]

I've not ran into that one before you can try: `sudo apt install python3-importlib-metadata` OR `sudo pip3 install importlib-metadata`

[@profmichaelhuster3268]

@@RussellValentine I'll give it a try in a day or two. BTW, do you run buster? Is it compatible with new OS versions, bullseye and bookworm?

[@RussellValentine]

@@profmichaelhuster3268 Good point, I don't think these steps will work on bookworm because lack of indi deb packages from astroberry, but I think they should work on bullseye. Lately for my projects, I ended up having some specific version requirements and so have been building everything from source on the Pi's.

[@freddylq67]

How would you connect to Indi if you're out in the field?

[@RussellValentine]

You can set the PI to have a static IP address (ethernet or as wifi accesspoint) then connect to it with your laptop on the same local laptoppi network.

[@freddylq67]

@@RussellValentine Regarding your video, you don't happen to have a write up for us Linux newbies?

[@RussellValentine]

@@freddylq67 I do not, I'll keep that in mind when I try to make other tutorials. I originally just made this quickly for someone in my astronomy club and thought I can put it on youtube in case anyone else found it useful. I don't know that the astronomy club member found it all that useful either. I eventually just gave them a sdcard with all the steps done.

[@freddylq67]

@@RussellValentine Since this is just an Indi server I'd like to try to get this running on a RPi zero 2 w.