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I tried a bluetooth dongle on my SW mount so I could connect to my laptop, then a serial cable to laptop because I found the Bluetooth solution unreliable and fiddly. Note: those BT dongles can't talk to an iPad. Then I got jack of the laptop because of cables and poking around for keys in the dark and dew and blindingly bright dialog boxes popping up and the need for a table and chair real close to reach the mount.
Serenity final prevailed when I bought an Orion Starseek (rebadged Skyfi) and the SkySafari app for my iPad. It just works, and the app is brilliant. It really does take your visual sessions to a whole new complementary, and enjoyable level. The whole package is so flexible I still have full functional use of the mount's controller whilst connected, although for me, I don't touch the controller and do all slewing from the iPad.
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