Hi All, i have been building up power efficient arm based devices to auto guide and run planetarium software on.
So my projects so far have been:
1. Rpi2 running lin-guider and StarsPi on an android phone.
2. Rpi3 running ubuntu mate 16.04LTS with indiserver remoting to my laptop that ran kstars/ekos/phd2 to control everything.
3. Asus Tinker board (this thing is fast!!!!) running Lubuntu 16.04LTS to run kstars/ekos/phd2 to control everything.
But the best one of all has been PHD2 and running on Raspberry Pi Zero W.
Last night I compiled PHD2 on my Pi0 W (512Mg ram single core 1GHz processor) that runs on about 1Watt of power.
And it works very well. This is probably the ultimate standalone auto guiding setup. The Pi0 W isn't powerful enough to run planetarium software on, but for guiding its good.
You just remote to the Pi0 W via a VNC (I use my mobile phone) and run PHD2 as you normally would.
I'm calling it the PiHD2 auto guider.
If anyone is interested, please let me know.
regards
some pictures:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1on5j8v9ku...sized.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j65q0zf3o1...sized.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xen8drb9hy...sized.jpg?dl=0