Problems of 3/26/2012

It has been a productive month. We are now at a point where the telescope systems are all working together. From this point on (unless something breaks) we should be able to perform observation tests and see how it all works together. The only hard part we are still having is pointing the telescope. Sometimes it seems to have a mind of its own.

Software

• Focus driver needs a little tweaking and testing - DONE
  
• Add user friendly GUI to control primitive features of the system - Website in progress - PARTIALLY COMPLETE
• TESTING and LOADS of it
• Nagios setup to point to new devices- BORAT online, other devices still need work
• Udev rules added to BORAT - DONE
  

Hardware

• Motion sensor wiring done, just need to connect each sensor via breadboard/connectors
• Weather sensor needs calibration
• New cable end for dome control cable - DONE
• Dome driver updated for new protocol - DONE
  
• Fan controller and Focuser in single box with single power supply - Waiting for shipment
  
• Cable rewire/Cable management, hellish mess right now - DONE
  

Security

• ZM also needs to be finished setting up - DONE
  
• ZM notification needs to be solved - DONE
  
• Motion detectors need to be wired in and fully tested
• Need some minor integration with IR+ZM+Lights work in combination
• Motion detection system needs some arduino code - DONE
  

Internet Speeds

We finally got around to gathering some ping information. This is important because we do want to control the telescope remotely and not just autonomously. So we would like to have low pings times as we gain other benefits too.


FYI the pings drops off at the end because the ping test server was off for a period of time.