Hi all,
Brand new to both xephem and to the group.
I am particularly interested in xephem because xmtel works with xephem and xmtel has telescope drivers for Sidereal Technology. I recently converted my JMI NGT-18 to the sitech controller and servo motors but sitech's software to date is windows only.
I have an Odroid XU4 running Ubuntu 18.04 that I want to use for xephem / xmtel and to drive the sitech controller. I want it to run headless so I'd been planning on a VNC setup using x11vnc and connecting to the XU4 either from my Mac or from an old 1st generation iPad.
I use x11vnc on the XU4 now and connection to it with tigervnc from the Mac it is rock solid for every application except xephem. Connecting to xephem causes the tigervnc client on the Mac to crash within a couple of minutes of use. Every time. x11vnc on the XU4 remains running and I can make a new connection almost immediately that will last another couple of minutes. I've also tried the RealVNC client for the Mac and hauled out a windows computer to test but unfortunately got the same crash.
Is this a known problem and if so is there a solution?
Alternatively I can do X forwarding from the XU4 but that limits me to the Mac and Quartz.
Thanks!
Jeff Ross
Townsend, MT
