rkaczorek / indi-jolohub

Astrohub driver provides support for Jolo AstroHub 3.0

indi-jolohub

Astrohub driver provides support for AstroHub 3.0, which can handle:

• 2x stepper motors Robofocus compatible
• 1x DC motor Skywatcher motofocus compatible
• 4x regulated PWMs
• 4x 12V switchable power lines
• 2x DHT22 temperature and humidity sensors
• 1x DS1820 temperature sensor

Additionally Astrohub 3.0 provides support for:

• Hand controler for manual focus control
• 5V power line
• regulated power line eg. for powering your DSLR
• COMM expansion slot with access to Arduino Serial2 and I2C and 5V power line, which supports addon modules such as:
  • MLX sky temperature sensor
  • TSL237 skyglow sensor
  • Atmospheric pressure sensor
  • GPS module
  • Gyro and compass module
  • Relays module
  • WLAN/BT wireless module

How to start?

First, you need to download and install INDI server and libraries. See INDI site for more details. In most cases it's enough to run:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libindi1

Second, download and install indi-jolohub.

Compiling from source:

sudo apt-get install indilib-dev
git clone https://github.com/rkaczorek/indi-jolohub.git
cd indi-jolohub
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

#How to use it? Start your INDI server with Astrohub drivers:

indiserver -l /var/log/indi -f /var/run/indi -p 7624 indi_jolohub

Start KStars with Ekos, connect to your INDI server and enjoy!