with an other error popping up. With AZ < 180 degrees the elevation works OK and with AZ > 180 degrees the elevation reverses.
In PST rotator I had to set Rotor Stop to North stop (being at 360 degrees) but that was still set for South stop from my normal antenna rotor.
running some tests now if I have to revert my change of wiring
My unconfirmed idea for tomorrow would be:
Remove the small gear from the AZ multiturn. Let the motor run and rotate the AZ gear 180 degrees. Re-attach the small gear. That should make the EL working as expected.
What about putting the code on a gitlab?
That’s part of the plan but I have not done that before.
One of the settings in the original (unmodified) arduino code set the max azimuth at 450 degrees.
I have a large gear with 100 teeth , and the potmeter gear has 10 teeth. So, one turn of the large gear (AZ) , 360 degrees, makes the potmeter rotate 10 turns. There is no space in my brain to make this setup work for 450 degrees, unless I set minimum AZ to 90 degrees which, I think, absolutely makes no sense.
Movie made in Hyperlapse, so 7 minutes is compressed to 24 seconds, in the last seconds it moves to 355 degrees but the satellite disappeared before the full turn was finished
Just short for info:
Moved ROTCTL(D) to a separate Pi
rotctld -m 602 -s 9600 -r /dev/ttyAMA0 -t 4533 --set-conf=min_az=1, max_az=359,min_el=2,max_el=100
and set the rotor in station 3442 to
SATNOGS_ROT_MODEL=ROT_MODEL_NETROTCTL
SATNOGS_ROT_PORT=192.168.0.1641:4533 (this is the rotor controller Pi)
unset the SATNOGS_ROT_BAUD
(as from a reply from Daniel Advanced rotor settings? No reset, no angle limitation, parking - SatNOGS / Software - Libre Space Community )
This all because the direct rotor control from station 3442 by USB connection to the Arduino Nano gave intermittent signals in the waterfall, with the antenna still being fixed and outdoor.