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Linuxisation
Well I have been investigating the means by which I will control my telescope once I move into my new house in (hopefully) mid October. As such I have decided to run the gauntlet of switching over to Linux based image capture.
So far I have set-up a dual boot OS on my image processing machine and installed Kstars with Ekos and Indi libraries. The simulations so far have been promising.
One reason I am considering Linux is because of the ability to run the indi library as a remote server. This means that I will be able to use a Raspberry Pi (i am using a Pi2 but pi 1's work) as a server host at the scope that I can remote into with Ekos from inside the house using either wireless or Ethernet. Best of all the Pi runs of the same USB hub my other equipment will be plugged into. Not bad for only $35
This means that provided the wireless connection works in my location works I would be able to reduce cabling running up the mount to only one (power). I got the Pi today and have loaded the operating system and Indi server on to it and will be testing the remote server with some of my equipment in the coming days.
I will keep you advise of how it goes.
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