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[Nova-developer] Testing problems

[Gord T. <gtu...@sh...>]

Ok guys, stupid question time again :) I need to do some testing on t=
he=20
autostar driver and don't seem to be able to get spiderd to accept an=
y=20
commands. I start up spiderd and telnet to the port and get the follo=
wing:

[gordt@www src]$ telnet localhost 10027
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
[spider]
msgid=3D-62346280
scopes=3Dscpe1

[scpe1]
name=3Dds114
dome=3Dno
mount=3DEquatorial
location=3DWinnipeg
xy=3Dautostar
focus=3Dautostar

[Winnipeg]
name=3DWinnipeg
latitude=3D+35=BA40'00.000"
longitude=3D-5=BA36'30.000"
elevation=3D820
timezone=3DCET

[autostar]
controller=3Dautostar

#**#?
DATE
Connection closed by foreign host.


No matter what I try to enter, I just get a connection closed. The=
=20
daemon session says:

[gordt@www src]$ ./spiderd -w 7
spiderd (a Telescope Motion Control Daemon) - V 0.0.10
Using libnova - V 0.3.1
Using libspider - V 0.1.0
(C) 2000 by The Nova Project Team.
scopes: ds114
**> ds114
+> mount  Equatorial
+> Loc    Winnipeg
load plugin from "../drivers/.libs/libautostar.so"
autostar plugin: loaded
load plugin from "../drivers/.libs/libautostar.so"
+> XY     autostar
+> cam    (null)
+> focus  autostar
+> derot  (null)
+> filter (null)
+> meteo  (null)
+> dome   (null)
*------*
startup autostar version 1.00
speed now 9600
Telescope date read is 09/14/02#
startup autostar version 1.00
speed now 9600
Telescope date read is 09/14/02#
Initialization complete.

Garbage Collector Thread 1026 started

Waiting for service request on port 10027
Incoming connection accepted from: localhost.localdomain
New connection received from [127.0.0.1] localhost.localdomain
New connection received from [127.0.0.1] localhost.localdomain
Thread started: 2051
Thread started 2051
No scope selected, closing connection
joining thread ID 2051


How do I enter commands?

Regards,
  Gord

Re: [Nova-developer] Problems...-Delegated

[Juan C. R. F. <jc...@ca...>]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for the mods.

I'm in business again, I have solved the internet connection problems in RH
7.3 (some incompatibility between the 7.2 rp3 files and the new ones in the
7.3).

The last night I have put new mods, mainly for Fausto, this time with the
lost files (sorry again :-(

Now I'm adding the same mods (thank you Fausto) to spiderd and I'll put
them in cvs tonight.

Fausto, the new modifications that affects you refers to observatory_request_filetransfer() whose third
parameter has changed from pointer to char to a file handler (gint) that should be opened previously
by the client, please watch the spiderclient source..;-)

Gord, can you compile now??, please tell me success or failure.

Cheers
Juan Carlos

[Nova-developer] Modifications

[Flatz <ma...@2a...>]

Ok Boyz ...
I have compiled and installed with success libspider-0.1.0 and spiderd-0.1.0
(the tarballs send by Juan Carlos today)

I send you two files:
1. the configure.in , to be placed on the root of spiderd-0.1.0
2. the Makefile.am of spiderd-0.1.0/contrib/audine2.10/

This files are modified to enable the Audine CCD simulation
(run and test the CAM service of spiderd without CCD camera)

JC, please insert this files in the official release.

Ciao
F.


------------------------------------------------
A polar bear is a rectangular bear 
after a co-ordinate transform.
                       Roger Doulis
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Re: [Nova-Developer] Problems ...

[Flatz <ma...@2a...>]

On 10-Sep-2002 Gord Tulloch wrote:
> Yes, I disabled audine since I don't use it anyways.
IMHO you can try to compile with the Audine, only for probing the correct
build/installation in your distribution.

Ciao
F.

P.S.: My apologies for my bad English.
No one speak Italian ? :)

------------------------------------------------
A polar bear is a rectangular bear 
after a co-ordinate transform.
                       Roger Doulis
-------------------------------------------------

Re: [Nova-Developer] Problems ...

[Gord T. <gtu...@sh...>]

Hey there:

>Fausto's answer was OK, the first problem is located in the kernel includes, in fact I have installed 
>the kernel-headers-2.4.9 in order to compile (All compiles ok in RH7.2, in RH7.3 you must uninstall
>the glibc-kernheaders files and install a kernel-headers file 2.4.9 instead or disable the audine support
>manually deleting in Makefile.am of the spiderd's root directory the word libsrc and daemons, 
>in Makefile.am in the contrib subdirectory the word audine-2.10 and in the Makefile.am in the drivers
>subdirectory any reference to audine.
>
>I have done the above for you and I'll send two tar.gz files in another mail to avoid problems with
>SourceForge.

Yes, I disabled audine since I don't use it anyways.

>First of all get the libnova package from cvs, compile and install it.

Done, works fine from the CVS. I'll look for the tarballs in email.

>Sorry for the inconveniences, I have been very busy changing some things in spiderd and
>with my little baby (he eats every tree hours, including the nights, and my wife works at 300 Km
>from home, for that we have to distribute all the task, including eating.. :-(

How well I remember what you're going through! Enjoy it while you can, my son is 10 months old now and we already miss that "blob of protoplasm" phase, like burping him and having him go to sleep draped over your shoulder. Now getting Liam to slow down (he's nearly walking on his own and demands we hold his hands all day and all night so he can walk around) long enough to sleep is a real challenge :)

>I forgot to add some files the last time (one week ago) and when I attempted to do it the next day
>I was left without internet connection (I was upgrading my laptop from the Rh 7.2+helix code to the
>latest Red Hat 7.3, but something was wrong and in my work I'm under a filerwall and couldn't accest to cvs).
>I hope to solve it this week.

No worries, I figured something like that was happening.

>Gordt I have changed some things that affect you directly. Please look in the sources in the drivers
>subdirectory (lx200.c source) in spiderd, and in the serport.c source from libspider.

Understood.

>Latest changes that affect you:
>
>-commands.c in spiderd/src splitted in two files, one called commands.c and the corresponding 
>commands.h moved to libspider, the other one called ult.c remains in spiderd/src.
>-serport.c and serport.h moved to libspider/src, corrected some bugs and function names normalized.
>Be carefull, this file in still work in progress. I'll send you de mods, in any...;-)
>
>I have started to work in the lx200 driver, I have some little code and I'll send you later if this can help you.

Sure, sounds good. Send me everything and I'll get to work on the Autostar driver this week, I have my scope all hooked up and ready to go.

Regards,
  Gord

Re: [Nova-developer] Problems...

[Juan C. R. F. <jc...@ca...>]

Hi.



Fausto's answer was OK, the first problem is located in the kernel
         includes, in fact I have installed

the kernel-headers-2.4.9 in order to compile (All compiles ok in RH7.2, in
         RH7.3 you must uninstall

the glibc-kernheaders files and install a kernel-headers file 2.4.9 instead
         or disable the audine support

manually deleting in Makefile.am of the spiderd's root directory the word
         libsrc and daemons,

in Makefile.am in the contrib subdirectory the word audine-2.10 and in the
         Makefile.am in the drivers

subdirectory any reference to audine.

I have done the above for you and I'll send two tar.gz files in another
         mail to avoid problems with

SourceForge.



First of all get the libnova package from cvs, compile and install it.

then unpack libspider-0.1.0.tar.gz and make:

autogen.sh

make

make install



This will install the library and header files



then unpack spiderd-0.1.0.tar.gz and do the same steps as in the previous
         packages

and all do build ok ;-)



Sorry for the inconveniences, I have been very busy changing some things in
         spiderd and

with my little baby (he eats every tree hours, including the nights, and my
         wife works at 300 Km

from home, for that we have to distribute all the task, including eating..:
         -(



I forgot to add some files the last time (one week ago) and when I
         attempted to do it the next day

I was left without internet connection (I was upgrading my laptop from the
         Rh 7.2+helix code to the

latest Red Hat 7.3, but something was wrong and in my work I'm under a
         filerwall and couldn't accest to cvs).

I hope to solve it this week.



Gordt I have changed some things that affect you directly. Please look in
         the sources in the drivers

subdirectory (lx200.c source) in spiderd, and in the serport.c source from
         libspider.



Latest changes that affect you:

-commands.c in spiderd/src splitted in two files, one called commands.c and
         the corresponding

commands.h moved to libspider, the other one called ult.c remains in
         spiderd/src.

-serport.c and serport.h moved to libspider/src, corrected some bugs and
         function names normalized.

Be carefull, this file in still work in progress. I'll send you de mods, in
         any...;-)



I have started to work in the lx200 driver, I have some little code and
         I'll send you later if this can help you.



If you cannot compile, please mail me directly. If you can do it, mail me
         too :-)



Liam, please, I do not have your patch for autoconf.sh and spiderd, please
         send me :-).



Cheers

Juan Carlos

Re: [Nova-developer] Problems...

[Flatz <ma...@2a...>]

On 08-Sep-2002 Gord Tulloch wrote:
> 2. audine-2.10 won't compile on Mandrake 8.2, problem with including
> /usr/include files in 
> kernel modules, is there a more recent version of the Audine software?
> Disabled for now. 
Do you have installed the kernel sources?  Not!  ;) 

After you have installed the kernel sources, you try to do the canonical:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
etcetera ...
 
> If I disable audine I start running into the same errors in other drivers so
> I'm pretty much stuck.
Hmmm ...
Wich vwrsion of autoconf/automake/autoheader/libtool Do you have ?

------------------------------------------------
A polar bear is a rectangular bear 
after a co-ordinate transform.
                       Roger Doulis
-------------------------------------------------

Re: Re: [Nova-developer] Problems...

[<fma...@es...>]

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 05:24, Liam Girdwood wrote:
>I bumped into the same errors with audine. I've disabled it in my build
>and I think it should also be disabled by default in the spiderd build
>until the audine maintainer can release a fix. I can commit this fix, JC

I've been maked some modifications on Makefile for audine-2.10
(It's an external package, not a original spiderd code - remember ?).

[CUT]
>> Am I doing something wrong? I'm not too familiar with developing in
>> LINUX and CVS right now so
>> any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
This kind of problem depend from the version of autotools in the various
Linux distribution... ( Liam work with SuSE, JCR with RH7.3, I work with
Slackware 8.1 ...).

(On the web are some useful tutorials to use CVS.)

>It looks like some files are missing from CVS.
>Juan Carlos, can you build spiderd OK ?
JC are working on my last modification of CAM service, and probabily do
to make some modification in libspider and spiderd, to change some
functions
names and other things.
The problem of JCR, IMHO, is the new child ...

Ciao!
Fausto

[Nova-developer] Problems...

[Gord T. <gt...@sh...>]

Hi all:

Not much progress on Autostar drivers because I've been unable to get spiderd to build - I go 
back to it once in a while and reload the CVS tree and things change, so I suspect someone is 
making changes - unfortunately it would seem that the config currently in the CVS is broken. 
It's broken in different ways every time I try it so I'm getting a little frustrated running 
after a moving target. Here's my latest iteration.

1. Downloaded latest CVS, ran autogen.sh, configure,then make 

2. audine-2.10 won't compile on Mandrake 8.2, problem with including /usr/include files in 
kernel modules, is there a more recent version of the Audine software? Disabled for now. 

3. Usually I get much further but now I'm running into:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../contrib/audine-2.10 -I../src -I../include -I../drivers 
-I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT -D_REENTRANT 
-D__USE_POSIX -D_ENABLE_NLS -g -Wall -Wp,-MD,.deps/audine_funcs.pp -c audine_funcs.c   -fPIC 
-DPIC -o .libs/audine_funcs.lo
In file included from audine_funcs.c:56:
../src/spiderconf.h:47:21: serport.h: No such file or directory
audine_funcs.c:57:22: commands.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [audine_funcs.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gordt/novaioe/spiderd/libsrc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gordt/novaioe/spiderd'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

If I disable audine I start running into the same errors in other drivers so I'm pretty much 
stuck.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm not too familiar with developing in LINUX and CVS right now so 
any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Regards,
  Gord

[Fwd: Re: [Nova-developer] Hello again]

[Gordon T. <gtu...@sh...>]

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Nova-developer] Hello again
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:25:43 -0500
From: Gordon Tulloch <gtu...@sh...>
To: Juan Carlos Remis Fernandez <jc...@ca...>
References: <OF7...@ca...>

Juan Carlos Remis Fernandez wrote:
 >
 > Hello Gord, I'm happy to have your news.
 >
 > I lament the problems of your company and on the other hand I am glad 
for the recent
 > birth of your son last October.  I have had also a baby last friday, 
in my country, when a
 > baby comes to the world, one says that "it comes with a bread 
underneath the arm" to
 > indicate that it is a signal that the things are going to improve. My 
better desires for you
 > and your family.

Thanks, and congrats on the new baby! Your first? Liam is my first one,
boy, what a lifestyle change :) Although for some reason it has made it
easier to pursue astronomy, late night is the only time I have to myself
LOL!

 > Speaking of another thing, from some time ago the drivers of spiderd 
have been
 > implemented as dynamically  loadable modules, reason why there will 
not be
 > problems to integrate your modules.
 >
 > [snip]

I actually got a little TCPIP <-> Serial command converter done over the
weekend so I could understand the technologies involved. It's ugly so
don't ask me to post it LOL :) I'll work under the spiderd framework
form hereon in.

No one hung unto that HTML chart I did of LX200 commands did they? It
was on my old web server and I forgot to save it :(

 > At the moment I am working on the ULT and the shipment of multiple 
answer messages to the
 > client. When this part finishes I have plans to work on the driver 
for the LX200, reason why your
 > previous work with the driver of autostar will be a great aid.
 >
 > Do not doubt to put in contact with me if you have some problem.

Have no fear, I shall :)

Regards,
    Gord

Re: [Nova-developer] Hello again

[Juan C. R. F. <jc...@ca...>]

Hello Gord, I'm happy to have your news.

I lament the problems of your company and on the other hand I am glad for the recent
birth of your son last October.  I have had also a baby last friday, in my country, when a
baby comes to the world, one says that "it comes with a bread underneath the arm" to
indicate that it is a signal that the things are going to improve. My better desires for you
and your family.

Speaking of another thing, from some time ago the drivers of spiderd have been
implemented as dynamically  loadable modules, reason why there will not be
problems to integrate your modules.

I recommend you to begin directly with spiderd, using the driver for dsws (Dallas
Semiconductor Weather Station) just finished, as an example or skeleton for your
own driver, you must take a moment to revise this code because this driver has a
special feature (it sends periodically weather data on demand). A standard driver
has four fundamental functions, handler_startup() and handler_shutdown() to start
and stop a service (the name is obvious), and handler_output() to process the
received commands and send request to the device (the telescope, the ccd, etc.)
and to receive the answer from the device and sent it back to the client. the last api
is the handler_input() whose purpose is to handle any message originated in the device,
without a previous request, and send back to the client wich handles it via the unsolicited
message callback. Why this api?, because some devices could send unsolicited messages,
i.e. a telescope could send periodically its position while in goto mode, or if you made manual
modifications to the actual position to actualize the client's data. If you think about this you will
find more examples..

If you do not want to use spiderd at this moment, I recommend you that you use at least the
functions from the libspider library, whose documentation you will be able to find in the doc
directory, in AbiWord format, and some diagrams to explain the message system. For the
serial port you can use the files serport.c and serport.h.

At the moment I am working on the ULT and the shipment of multiple answer messages to the
client. When this part finishes I have plans to work on the driver for the LX200, reason why your
previous work with the driver of autostar will be a great aid.

Do not doubt to put in contact with me if you have some problem.

Cheers
Juan Carlos

[Nova-developer] Hello again

[Gord T. <gt...@sh...>]

Hi there:

You may recall I was planning on helping out with this project just over 
a year ago - at the time I was working on building a Mel Bartels altaz 
dobbie and volunteered to work on the LX200 driver. Alas, many thinhs 
happened last year to mess up my best intentions to get a scope up and 
running and help with NOVA - I had to shut my company down due to the 
tech meltdown, had to find a job, had to deal with all the pain of a 
near bankrupty, and to top it all off, had a baby in October :)

I am however back in the swing of things - I realized I had niether the 
time nor the mechanical skills to get a telescope built that I would be 
happy with so I sold off my 13.1" dobbie gear and ordered a Meade DS114 
with an Autostar #495. Works great, but sitting next to the scope with a 
laptop basically sucks so I'd like to hook the scope and the 3COM 
HomeConnect webcam I'm using for pictures to a LINUX box and control it 
with Nova.

So, what I'd like to do is put LX200 on hold for the time being and 
develop an Autostar driver for spiderd (Autostar is a subset of LX200 as 
far as I know). I'm a relative newbie to LINUX programming although I've 
been coding in C for Windoze for years so bear with me. Having trouble 
building things right now, will ask questions once I know they're not 
stupid newb questions :)

Sound like a plan? Thanks!

Regards,
  Gord

[Nova-developer] build problems with CVS spiderd

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

Juan Carlos,

I've just done a CVS update to spiderd and encountered the following
build errors

Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/liam/spiderd/src'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I/usr/include/glib-1.2
-I/usr/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT    -D_REENTRANT -D__USE_POSIX
-D_ENABLE_NLS -m486 -g -Wall -c spiderd.c
spiderd.c: In function `main':
spiderd.c:339: warning: implicit declaration of function
`spd_printf_answer_msg'
spiderd.c: In function `conn_handler':
spiderd.c:471: warning: implicit declaration of function
`test_socket_err'
spiderd.c: In function `get_net_data':
spiderd.c:600: warning: implicit declaration of function
`spd_printf_answer_msg2'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I/usr/include/glib-1.2
-I/usr/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT    -D_REENTRANT -D__USE_POSIX
-D_ENABLE_NLS -m486 -g -Wall -c spiderconf.c
spiderconf.c: In function `populate_service':
spiderconf.c:499: warning: implicit declaration of function
`spd_hex2num'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I/usr/include/glib-1.2
-I/usr/lib/glib/include -D_REENTRANT    -D_REENTRANT -D__USE_POSIX
-D_ENABLE_NLS -m486 -g -Wall -c commands.c
commands.c: In function `distribute_work':
commands.c:372: warning: implicit declaration of function
`spd_printf_answer_msg2'
commands.c:398: warning: implicit declaration of function `spd_hex2num'
commands.c:401: warning: passing arg 2 of `spd_send_file_data' makes
pointer from integer without a cast
commands.c:401: warning: passing arg 3 of `spd_send_file_data' makes
integer from pointer without a cast
commands.c:401: too many arguments to function `spd_send_file_data'
make[2]: *** [commands.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/liam/spiderd/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/liam/spiderd'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


Liam

-- 
Liam Girdwood
l_g...@bi... (Work)
li...@no... (Home)

[Nova-developer] Re: Don't have AC_LIB_LIBSPIDER

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 13:09, Juan Carlos Remis Fernandez wrote:
> 
> Hi Liam,
> 
> Sorry,  please copy the file from spiderd/macros/libspider-check.m4
> the vars are already defined in libnovacom-0.0.1/configure.in

ok.
> 
> I believe that the contrib directory was correctly filled but I cannot
> put my hand in the fire, I'll correct it...
> 

Ah, I have removed contrib from configure.in and Makefile.am, so if
there are files missing from contrib CVS then contrib will have to be
added to the build system again. Sorry.

Liam 

-- 
Liam Girdwood
l_g...@bi... (Work)
li...@no... (Home)

[Nova-developer] Re: Don't have AC_LIB_LIBSPIDER

[Juan C. R. F. <jc...@ca...>]

Hi Liam,

Sorry,  please copy the file from spiderd/macros/libspider-check.m4
the vars are already defined in libnovacom-0.0.1/configure.in

I believe that the contrib directory was correctly filled but I cannot
put my hand in the fire, I'll correct it...

I have completed the client and server side apis of libspider, I'll
do a clean and test before to release it.

The driver side apis require some modifications and
more work in the ULT (the basic was done) but I can touch
with my fingers the 0.1.0 release...

Cheers
Juan Carlos

[Nova-developer] Don't have AC_LIB_LIBSPIDER

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

Fausto, Juan Carlos,

I've built and installed libspider, but I can't build libnovacom without
AC_LIB_LIBNOVA being defined. I presume this should be defined in a file
in libspider/macros. Could someone please put it in CVS.

I've also fixed a small problem with the latest "clean" CVS version of
libspiderd not compiling due to an empty contrib directory.

Thanks

Liam


-- 
Liam Girdwood
l_g...@bi... (Work)
li...@no... (Home)

[Nova-developer] Re: Commands gnova/spiderd

[Juan C. R. F. <jc...@ca...>]

Hi my friends

The promissed schematics:

actual_dialog
async_dialog
synchro_dialog

I send the files in two formats: png and dia
(http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/)

Before seeing the drawings you must consider that the ULT will be an
asynchronous thread.
Why?, well an example will clarify it:

      First you will have a thread for each telescope.

      If you send a "GOTO" command to de telescope, this one will be put in
movement,
      but only the associated XY service will have cpu time until the
movement will be
      completed making it impossible to abort a command sent by mistake
while
      the service does not release the CPU.

With a thread per ULT you can abort the previous ULT or you can send
commands
to other services or instruments in parallel.

Of course, will be a contention mechanism to access concurrently to the
services.

The client apis probably remains without changes, in the service's case
I'll modify the handler_output
to manage the answer and the handler_input will remain to handle the
unsolicited messages,
only if the instrument has this capacity, of course!.

Well, I'll wait your comments.
cheers
Juan Carlos
P.D. For fausto I have included the corrected spiderd.h file. tonight i'll
put it in cvs

(See attached file: actual_dialog.dia)(See attached file:
actual_dialog.png)(See attached file: async_dialog.dia)(See attached file:
async_dialog.png)(See attached file: synchro_dialog.dia)(See attached file:
synchro_dialog.png)(See attached file: spider.h)

[Nova-developer] Announce: gnova 0.2.1 and libnova 0.3.1

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

A new version of Nova has been released and can be found at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4413 . 

This will be the final developer only release. 

Changes from 0.1.0 
   Icons / Pixmaps added to GUI. 
   Improved Toolbar's / Menu's  
   Dialogs and druids are improved
   Build problems on RedHat fixed. (again ;) )


libnova 0.3.1 has also been released and is available for download.

Features 
This version of libnova can calculate: 

* - Aberration 
* - Nutation 
* - Apparent Position 
* - Dynamical Time 
* - Julian Day 
* - Precession 
* - Proper Motion 
* - Sidereal Time 
* - Solar Coordinates 
* - Coordinate Transformations 
* - Planetary Positions (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87) 
* - Planetary Magnitude, illuminated disk and phase angle. 

Licence 
libnova is release under the LGPL. 

-- 
Liam Girdwood
l_g...@bi... (Work)
li...@no... (Home)

[Nova-developer] Announce: libnova-0.3.0

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

libnova 0.3.0 has now been released and is available for download at
http://www.nova-ioe.org

Features
This version of libnova can calculate:

* - Aberration
* - Nutation
* - Apparent Position
* - Dynamical Time
* - Julian Day
* - Precession
* - Proper Motion
* - Sidereal Time
* - Solar Coordinates
* - Coordinate Transformations
* - Planetary Positions (Mercury - Neptune using VSOP87)
* - Planetary Magnitude, illuminated disk and phase angle.

Licence
libnova is release under the LGPL.

Liam Girdwood

Re: [Nova-developer] Nova road map

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

Ooops, it seems I forgot about spiderd 0.2.0.

spiderd v 0.2.0

v 0.2.0
We aim to have the LX200 driver implementation working in this version.
This should also give us some LX50 support as well.

Liam

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 16:54, Liam Girdwood wrote:

    This is a short term road map describing the current state and
    development direction for Nova. 
    
    libnova: 
    
    v 0.3.0 
    The next release of libnova will add planetary distances, magnitudes
    and illuminated disk size. This will be version 0.3.0 and will be
    available soon. 
    
    v 0.4.0 
    This release will add lunar position and phase. 
    
    v 0.5.0 
    This release will have functionality to calcalute positions of
    asteroids and comets from orbital parameters. 
    
    spiderd: 
    
    v 0.1.0 
    This will be the first release of spiderd. It will be released as
    soon as the spiderd / nova interface stabilises. 
    
    nova: 
    
    v 0.2.0 
    This will be the last GUI prototype release. The GUI look and fell
    is gradually taking shape. There are still minor changes to be made
    wrt menus and toolbars. There will be limited virtual sky
    functionality. Version 0.2.0 will be released soon. 
    
    v 0.3.0 
    This release will have more virtual sky functionality. It will also
    be able to connect with spiderd and perform basic telescope
    operations. 
    
    
    Liam
    

[Nova-developer] Nova road map

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

This is a short term road map describing the current state and
development direction for Nova.

libnova:

v 0.3.0
The next release of libnova will add planetary distances, magnitudes and
illuminated disk size. This will be version 0.3.0 and will be available
soon.

v 0.4.0
This release will add lunar position and phase.

v 0.5.0
This release will have functionality to calcalute positions of asteroids
and comets from orbital parameters.

spiderd:

v 0.1.0
This will be the first release of spiderd. It will be released as soon
as the spiderd / nova interface stabilises.

nova:

v 0.2.0
This will be the last GUI prototype release. The GUI look and fell is
gradually taking shape. There are still minor changes to be made wrt
menus and toolbars. There will be limited virtual sky functionality.
Version 0.2.0 will be released soon.

v 0.3.0
This release will have more virtual sky functionality. It will also be
able to connect with spiderd and perform basic telescope operations.


Liam

Re: [Nova-developer] RE: GUI updates

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 08:51, fma...@es... wrote:

    Hi Liam,
    
    I'm not able to compile your last modifies because the file
    "observation_list_page.hh",
    required in src/application.cc is missing ...
    

Oops,

I forgot to add this file to the repository.

I'll add it when I get home tonight.


    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    I have send in CVS repository (module spiderd) some modification for
    the Cavezzo Robotic Telescope support. The code is mainly located in hm2.c
    and hm2.h
    
    If someone want to compile with Ca.Ro.Te. support, two separate (GPL)
    libraries are needed, and
    a "./configure  --enable-carote-support" configuration command option.
    
    Mail me if you want the libs ... ;)

I might be a good idea to add this to the README including a URL (if
possible) for download.

    
    Ciao
    Fausto
    (Sorry for the english).
    

Liam

    
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[Nova-developer] RE: GUI updates

[<fma...@es...>]

Hi Liam,

I'm not able to compile your last modifies because the file
"observation_list_page.hh",
required in src/application.cc is missing ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have send in CVS repository (module spiderd) some modification for
the Cavezzo Robotic Telescope support. The code is mainly located in hm2.c
and hm2.h

If someone want to compile with Ca.Ro.Te. support, two separate (GPL)
libraries are needed, and
a "./configure  --enable-carote-support" configuration command option.

Mail me if you want the libs ... ;)

Ciao
Fausto
(Sorry for the english).

[Nova-developer] GUI updates

[Liam G. <l_g...@bi...>]

Guys,

I'm back at work now and have commited several changes that reflect the
Nova <--> spiderd GUI interface. A cvs update will be required to see
the changes.

The changes make the control interface more visible and allow more
feedback. 

Liam

P.S.

I'm trawling through my email slowly.

[Nova-developer] EtherAudine (was: spiderd commands and RFC)

[Flatz <ma...@2a...>]

On 21-Dec-01 Juan Carlos Remis wrote:
> Hello boys.
[CUT] 
> Another thing, I think that the complete project should be installed on the
> /OPT directory with their own structure, following the FSH (Standard
> Filesystem Hierarchy). What do you think?
Very good for me!

> Speaking of another topic, I have been doing tests with a SC12 cpu
> (80186-20Mhz with ethernet, i2c and two serial ports, 512k flash and 512k
> ram)  it work quite well and it is easily programmable (see [http]
>://www.bcl-online.de), this week I want to test execution times with floating
> point (emulation), up to this moment I have tested it only with long numbers.
> 
> I think that the SC12 is a good candidate to handle directly the audine CCD
> using ethernet and tcp/ip (the etheraudine seems to me more complicated).
For me and Massimo, EthernAude is very simple and flexible, and is not only for
Audine, but also for various type of devices! 
Have you see the official Web page of EthernAude ? You can find the firmware
code (in assembler) for the PIC on EthernAude board. 
 
> Fausto: como te gustaría que fueran los retornos de spiderd para carote, la
> documentación quiere decir algo así:
> [comando:ok] 
> [comando:error+explicación]
> 
> Que te parece??.
L'avevo gia` fatto cosi! ;)
 
> Gracias por vuestra ayuda y vuestros ánimos. Saluda de mi parte a Maximo, os
> deseo una Feliz Navidad y cielos limpios.
Muy limpios (los otres dias!);  ma oggi (26/12) nevica! 

Thank you!
Fausto
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