Hello, everyone.
I am currently working on a SATNOGS rotator V3. I’ve already built the Raspberrypi and SDR, but I can’t find any documentation on connecting the SATNOGS rotator controller to the Raspberrypi and I don’t know how to do it. Is it possible to automatically track the satellites with signals from the Raspberrypi when actually operating it? I would like to have detailed documentation.
It sure is possible, I’ve done it in several slightly different variations with a Yaesu g-5500. Unfortunately I don’t see any detailed instructions on how to do it on the satnogs wiki.
If you want the most of the rotator I suggest running rotctld with the appropriate parameters to make it available on your network, then connecting to it with satnogs-client.
In any case, the following variables are relevant from Client_Setup:
SATNOGS_ROT_MODEL
SATNOGS_ROT_PORT
And if directly connected: SATNOGS_ROT_BAUD
These are passed to rotctl so the settings are specific to hamlib.
There’s a example on how to test it here CNC_Shield_Based_Rotator_Controller
Also see relevant thread
Hello,
I am running into the same lack of Documentation. Did you ever find anything or write anything up on connecting the SatNOGS rotor V3 to the raspberry pi?