astroarch Add SIRIL into the installation image

Hello everyone, I have another comment: does it make sense to include the SIRIL software (https://siril.org/) in the installation package? Best regards, Oliver

Jun 11 '24 12:06 Olli781

hey @Olli781, siril is available to be installed already via pacman.

I have no opinion if that should be part of the base image or just to be installed by people that want to use it, but I suppose if few people will react with a :+1: to this issue, we may move it to the base image

Jun 11 '24 14:06 MattBlack85

My 2 cents: I've always seen the project as a mean to have a working kstars/phd2 setup, or at least a setup which main point is to drive the equipment during a session, so SIRIL is not a priority since it's part of the post processing. If you want to use SIRIL to live stack, is the RPI powerful enough to manage both kstars shooting and SIRIL stacking? Also, since SIRIL is available on pacman, it's installation is trivial at best.

Jun 11 '24 16:06 Ryther

gonna add it in 2.1

Jul 10 '25 08:07 MattBlack85

@MattBlack85 I just installed Siril through the new onboarding on 2.0.4. you might want to close this?

Nov 07 '25 09:11 BenoitBotton

Thanks @BenoitBotton , I think this may be indeed close as the onboarding asks for it now

Nov 07 '25 09:11 MattBlack85

Hi everyone, yes, of course: we can close this topic. I think the update to 2.0.4 is great, by the way. I also installed SIRIL via the onboarding function.

Nov 07 '25 12:11 Olli781

My 2 cents: I've always seen the project as a mean to have a working kstars/phd2 setup, or at least a setup which main point is to drive the equipment during a session, so SIRIL is not a priority since it's part of the post processing. If you want to use SIRIL to live stack, is the RPI powerful enough to manage both kstars shooting and SIRIL stacking? Also, since SIRIL is available on pacman, it's installation is trivial at best.

FYI: Live stacking is recently available in Ekos: https://knro.blogspot.com/2025/08/kstars-v378-is-released.html

Nov 08 '25 07:11 imahgin

My 2 cents: I've always seen the project as a mean to have a working kstars/phd2 setup, or at least a setup which main point is to drive the equipment during a session, so SIRIL is not a priority since it's part of the post processing. If you want to use SIRIL to live stack, is the RPI powerful enough to manage both kstars shooting and SIRIL stacking? Also, since SIRIL is available on pacman, it's installation is trivial at best.

FYI: Live stacking is recently available in Ekos: https://knro.blogspot.com/2025/08/kstars-v378-is-released.html

thanks for the reminder! another thing to try

Nov 10 '25 10:11 BenoitBotton