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HOWTO Enable SkySafari in ASIAIR with EQMod

Enable indi_skysafari diriver - Modify ASIAIR SD card

Install Raspbian

• First, back up your ASIAIR SD card !!!
• Install Raspbian Buster Lite on another SD card to download here
• Insert the Rasbinan SD card into the Raspberry Pi3 and switch power on
• Connect to Rasbina use hdmi display or TV and USB keyboard

login: pi
password: raspberry
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.57-v7+ #1244 SMP Thu Jul 4 18:45:25 BST 2019 armv7l

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Last login: Sun Aug 18 09:08:20 2019 from 10.104.11.10

SSH is enabled and the default password for the 'pi' user has not been changed.
This is a security risk - please login as the 'pi' user and type 'passwd' to set a new password.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Mount ASIAIR SD card in Raspbian

• Insert the ASIAIR SD card into the card reader and connect to your Raspberry Pi3

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo -s
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="boot" LABEL="boot" UUID="F661-303B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="89dc697a-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="8d008fde-f12a-47f7-8519-197ea707d3d4" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="89dc697a-02"
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="89dc697a" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL_FATBOOT="BOOT" LABEL="BOOT" UUID="0CD4-7D08" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="b52378d8-01"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="a0bd121f-e707-49e3-bca9-192889365de2" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b52378d8-02"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="e6f5b65e-9211-4e9d-b5bd-a5160a672c2e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b52378d8-03"
/dev/sdb4: UUID="fc33a407-e610-4e36-97fe-e7cfc522864f" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="b52378d8-04"

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# cd /mnt

root@raspberrypi:/mnt# ls
AP_2.4G.conf  AP_5G.conf  ASIAIR  ASIAIR_old  bridgeAP  cpuinfo  lost+found  samba  wlan0.conf  wpa_supplicant.conf

root@raspberrypi:/mnt# cd /mnt/ASIAIR/bin

root@raspberrypi:/mnt/ASIAIR/bin# ls
auto_shutdown.sh  polar_align.py   run_update_pack.sh  start_INDI.sh    zwoair_ap_led.sh  zwoair_guider  zwoair_updater
get_ap_ssid.sh    polar_align.pyc  set_timezone.sh     station_mode.sh  zwoair_daemon.sh  zwoair_imager

Edit start_INDI.sh script

• now edit start_INDI.sh use vi or nano text editor

#!/bin/bash

# $1=indi_lx200zeq25

if [ $# == 0 ];then
        echo "no argument"
        exit 1
fi

echo "driver:$1"

server_running=$(ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep indiserver|grep $1|awk '{print $2}')

if [ ! -z $server_running ];then
echo "server is already running"
exit 0
fi

killall -9 indiserver
indiserver $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &

cnt=0
while [ $cnt -lt 50 ]
do
        indi_running=$(netstat -lp|grep -w indiserver|awk '{print $1}')
        if [ ! -z $indi_running ];then
        echo "indi is running"
        break
        fi
        sleep 0.05
        cnt=$[$cnt+1]
done

Modify line 20:
indiserver $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
to
indiserver $1 indi_skysafari > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Final version on this script is:

#!/bin/bash

# $1=indi_lx200zeq25

if [ $# == 0 ];then
        echo "no argument"
        exit 1
fi

echo "driver:$1"

server_running=$(ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep indiserver|grep $1|awk '{print $2}')

if [ ! -z $server_running ];then
echo "server is already running"
exit 0
fi

killall -9 indiserver
indiserver $1 indi_skysafari > /dev/null 2>&1 &

cnt=0
while [ $cnt -lt 50 ]
do
        indi_running=$(netstat -lp|grep -w indiserver|awk '{print $1}')
        if [ ! -z $indi_running ];then
        echo "indi is running"
        break
        fi
        sleep 0.05
        cnt=$[$cnt+1]
done

• unmout ASIARI SD card and swich off your Raspberry

root@raspberrypi:/mnt/ASIAIR/bin# cd /
root@raspberrypi:/# sync
root@raspberrypi:/# umount /mnt
root@raspberrypi:/# halt

• remove raspbian SD card and insert modify ASIAIR SD card to your Raspberry
• connect your ASIAIR to EQmod compatible mount use EQDirect USB cable (my DIY is here) or SynScan WiFi adapter