The following sections describe recipes for operating the telescope. Recipes for "manual" or "TCS" control of the telescope are given.
=== Computer setup (keyboard and mouse sharing) ===
In order to simplify observing, a single keyboard and mouse may now be used for both the TCS and SpUpNIC machines. This is achieved by using Synergy https://symless.com/synergy/
This should already be set up and running in both machines. In case it is not, the second keyboard and mouse plugged into SpUPNIC should be located behind the monitors. Simply bring them out and run with two keyboards/mice as normal.
To set up synergy if it is not running:
- For some reason, it only works with tcs74v3 as the server and spupnic as the client, so it's important to set them this way around (and why the nicer keyboard and mouse were moved over to the tcs machine).
- It should just be a case of running /usr/bin/synergy on both machines. Most easily done in unity by pressing the "windows" key and starting to type synergy
- If extra configuration is needed, click "configure server" in the synergy on tcs74v3 and place spupnic's monitor to the right of the tcs screen on the graphical display. Then, on spupnic, set "client" and put in tcs74's IP address (set tcs's monitor to the left of - spupnic's). I think I had to use IP addresses rather than hostnames. Once you've clicked "apply" and/or "run" on both, you should be able to move the mouse across all three monitors and use the one keyboard on both (plus copy and pasting across machines).
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== Start-up Recipe==
