I’ve recently been trying out KStars on a RaspberryPi 3 (I intend on using something a little more powerful later on) to help reduce the reliance on running LOOOOOONG USB cables and instead swap to ethernet.

One of the issues I also wanted to solve is removing the requirement of entering my long and lat co-ordinates everytime I move the kit, this in comes GPS.

I’ve not tried my USB GPS adapter in linux before let alone with KStars, however it turned out to be simple.apt install indi-gpsd

apt install indi-gpfsd

vi /etc/defaults/gpfsd

add

DEVICES="/dev/gps0"

Open KStars device manager, and start the gpsd driver.

DONE!