Hacking a marine radio dish

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 28 Oct, 16:22 UTC

melanpan.nl picked up a used Intellian i4 marine satellite dish on Marktplaats for about €200, against a new price near €4000. The dish uses stepper motors, a quad LNB, and an indoor Antenna Control Unit with Ethernet, WiFi and RS-232. The ACU expects a boat to tell it where it is and which way it…