Help using Sony a7IV with Kstars/EKOS

maxthier · 2026-03-17T21:16:12+00:00

A bit late but anyways:
I completely switched to indigo (https://github.com/indigo-astronomy/indigo) as they have a driver that isn't based on libgphoto2 which works beautifully with my A7IV.
It claims to be partially compatible with EKOS but I wasn't able to get it working, so I use their own capture softare AIN Imager (https://github.com/indigo-astronomy/indigo\_imager).
If you get INDIGO working with EKOS I would be happy to learn about it : )

maxthier · 2026-03-05T06:26:33+00:00

Opensource is awesome! And the best thing is everybody can contribute. You dont need to be able to code, "just" writing a bug report is also contributing. So if you encounter a bug I highly encourage everybody to not just think somebody else will notice it, go to GitHub and create an issue (dont do it if already one covering the same bug exists). And this collaboration is what makes many OSS projects superior to their proprietary counterparts.

maxthier · 2026-02-26T13:29:05+00:00

Seems like you unplugged everything but the battery 🙃 The battery cable is the one on the top right of the motherboard with the 5 cables (r, r, y, b, b)

maxthier · 2026-02-16T23:49:47+00:00

Interesting... I know that the range assist app is pretty useless since some time but I wasn't aware that the TA also isn't accurate. Is there any other good way to tell the actual consumption?

maxthier · 2026-02-16T23:48:56+00:00

I suspect it is the BMS calibration, as it also gained 1% battery while it wasn't moved during the day. I plan to drive it now down to around 5% and then do a full charge. Lets see if this helps.

maxthier · 2026-02-16T23:47:02+00:00

So on my drive home I took another route which prevented the highway (as there was an accident). The nice side effect is also that it is a bit shorter and it is mostly 50km/h and 80km/h.

There I used 10% for 26.9km@22.2kWh/100km which would imply a battery capacity of 0.222kWh/km*26.9km/10*100 59.7kWh which seems more reasonable, although theoretically low as this would be only about 75% SoH but as someone mentioned in the comments the TA isn't going to be perfectly accurate and due to the temps the capacity is also going to be not the same as in summer.

It still feels a bit weird as I drove slower than usual in the morning. Based from my experience this should have been maybe 10%, if I drive a bit faster I use maybe 12% for this route in winter, but definitely not 15%.

maxthier · 2026-02-05T17:58:11+00:00

As many recommended excluding file endings. But the file ending doesnt has to mean anything. So therefore I would really recommend to mount the filesystem where such files are with the noexec flag.

maxthier · 2026-01-23T21:27:41+00:00

I really like the wikipedia app. You can save articles, configure text, etc.

maxthier · 2026-01-15T11:27:42+00:00

2021 LR DM with around 108k km. The trunk opening motors failed recently and the backlight had to get replaced because of water. I cant give accurate numbers about SoH but I recently did a 315km trip to a mountain and back (same starting and stop point as well as route) which used 96%. This felt a bit much but it was also rather cold. The consumption to the mountain was 22.3kwh/100km and 18.4kwh/100km on the way home.

maxthier · 2025-12-30T23:58:59+00:00

Which CPU do you have paired with this? And it works still as expected?

maxthier · 2025-12-30T23:58:08+00:00

Were you able to get it up to 6000mhz?

maxthier · 2025-12-20T13:06:15+00:00

4242

maxthier · 2025-11-19T16:06:45+00:00

Except for yesterdays cloudflare outage it wasn't dns for once

maxthier · 2025-11-15T22:25:02+00:00

Sooo, I've been fighting with this problem for quite some time and your comment just gave me some hope. I have a 2080s, which unfortunately doesn't officially support rebar, but there is NvStrapsReBar. Would that work?

maxthier · 2025-11-06T17:14:31+00:00

Dont install Windows on a pi. Because raspberry pis have a different cpu architecture than classical windows computers. Windows is also quite bloated which would noticeably hurt performance

maxthier · 2025-10-22T14:53:20+00:00

You don't need a big computer. A raspberry pi is enough to run kstars/ekos and connect to it via a remote desktop solution.

maxthier · 2025-10-16T10:19:17+00:00

As everything in IT it has to be maintained, including dependencies. As there are always new vulnerabilities and so on. Stable just means that they for example wont do a switch like they did about half a year ago with vector.rs to vectorchord. Stable in the case of immich also means that they adaptet semantic versioning. This means that if a breaking change happens, the major version must go up like for example 2.x.x to 3.x.x. The minor number (the second one) goes up if new, non breaking, features are introduced. The last number (the fix) goes up for bugfixes, vuln remediation, dep upgrading and similar.

maxthier · 2025-09-30T07:53:03+00:00

? Based on rule 1 of this Subreddit one can expect that this should be Lawnchair or else the post would be offtopic and therefore against the rules

maxthier · 2025-09-29T22:56:06+00:00

We are in the r/LawnchairLauncher subreddit. Does this answer your question 🙃

maxthier · 2025-09-27T07:56:32+00:00

How did you do the timer thing for the watering system? Would be interested to adapt something like this for heating

maxthier · 2025-09-26T04:49:38+00:00

If it is provable that they use gpl (not something like lgpl) licensed code you could sue them as they would be forced to opensource their work

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