ASTELCO telescopes drivers for the chimera observatory control system https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera.

The ASTELCO drivers come with a new type of instrument, TPL, which is responsible for the communication with the TSI system. In order for the drivers to work at least TPL instrument must be defined. The user may either use one TPL for all instruments or a TPL for each instrument (see furthermore how to configure them). The later may be usefull to avoid the single point of failure, though experience shows that when one fails, all fails.

Installation instructions. Dependencies, etc...

pip install -U chimera_astelco

or

pip install -U git+https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera_astelco.git

Here goes an example of the configuration to be added on chimera.config file.

instrument:
    name: TPLConn01
    type: TPL
    user: admin
    password: admin
    tpl_host: 127.0.0.1 # Host IP
    tpl_port: 65432 # Host port

instrument:
    name: TPLConn02
    type: TPL
    user: admin
    password: admin
    tpl_host: 127.0.0.1 # Host IP
    tpl_port: 65432 # Host port

instrument:
    name: MyTelescope
    type: Astelco
    tpl: /TPL/TPLConn01

instrument:
    name: MyFocuser
    type: AstelcoFocuser
    tpl: /TPL/TPLConn01 # uses same TPL as the telescope

instrument:
    name: MyDome
    type: AstelcoDome
    tpl: /TPL/TPLConn02 # uses a different TPL

For more information, contact us on chimera's discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chimera-discuss

Bug reports and patches are welcome and can be sent over our GitHub page: https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera_template/