Nothing here yet... if you have questions about the software or would like to contribute feel free to open an issue or a pull request!
If you are serious about contributing, best is to fork the code on github into your own project
PiFinder needs 3.9 or 3.10 python with a working pip
pip install -r requirements.txt pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
Download the hipparcos catalog, change the download location.
'''wget -O /home/pifinder/PiFinder/astro_data/hip_main.dat https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/239/hip_main.dat'''
''' cd python/PiFinder git clone https://github.com/esa/tetra3.git '''
Run the following command from the ./python folder '''python3 -m PiFinder.main -fh -k server --camera debug -x'''
You can enable debug information by passing the '-x' flag
When crashing, there are many unrelated stack traces, search for the relevant one, the rest are the other threads stopping.