AlphaSpid Rotor with Hamlib + GPredict

Gpredict
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Hi to all! I have problems to control the Alphaspid rotor for my university groundstation. I installed the USB cable with my pc (Ubuntu), but when the gpredict connect to hamlib, apears a error that says “timeout communication”.

The configuration of gpredict its very simple (i beleive that this part is ok). The command for rotctld that im using is:

rotctld -m 901 -t 4533 -s 9600 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -vvvvv

I tried with several rotor config (all for the alphaspid) 901/902/903 and varios speed 9600/115200/etc.

The rotor console its in AUTO mode, as the manual request.

¿Any idea?

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Que error da la consola ?

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The error it’s Timeout, when i try to move the rotor from gpredict and track a satellite.

Spanish: El error es Timeout cuando trato de mover el rotor desde el gpredict para seguir un satelite.

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OK, My bad english, lol.

No le esta reenviando los datos desde el rotor al Gpredict, proba con otra version de Hamlib me paso y lo solucione asi.

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Finally works with this command, and without any hardware modification o cable:
rotctld -m 901 -t 4533 -vvvvv -s 600 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -C data_bits=8 -C parity=none -C stop_bits=1

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