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astroberry-piface-cad

Astroberry PiFace CAD provides INDI driver for PiFace Control and Display addon board to Raspberry Pi.

The project provides INDI drivers using PiFace Control and Display (2x16 LCD display + 5 buttons + nav button)

The project is the result of splitting Astroberry PiFace at its version 2.0.2

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 astroberry-pifacecad.

Compiling from source:

sudo apt-get install libindi-dev
git clone https://github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-piface-cad.git
cd astroberry-pifacecad-cad
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

Installing from binaries:

wget https://github.com/rkaczorek/astroberry-piface-cad/binaries/astroberry-piface-cad_2.0.1-1_armhf.deb
dpkg -i astroberry-piface-cad_2.0.1-1_armhf.deb

#How to use it? Start your INDI server with Astroberry PiFace CAD driver:

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

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