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Astrotortilla integrates with BackyardEOS; PHD integrates with BackyardEOS and it's ASCOM compatible, so you can platesolve, dither and push your scope around through BYEOS. I find myself mostly shooting one object per night from east to west with a meridian flip at some point, which I have to find a more elegant way of doing (atm I park home, unpack and tell Stellarium where to go). Because of the meridian flip, PHD needs to be recalibrated as the mount behaves differently from east to west and I need a new guidestar. Plus I am doing the occasional dark frame. What I am trying to say is: how do people automate multiple targets all through the night without having to manually intervene? And if you manually intervene, why use sequence generator?
PS: when using EQDIR (shoestring), download the driver from Stark Labs. When using a serial-USB adapter (non-Keyspan) under Windows 10, download the Windows 7 version of the Prolific driver (I almost bought a Keyspan until I found the trick). Put your hand controller in a box and leave it there, you won't need it anymore. I couldn't get Stellarium to work with Stellariumscope as well, You need the last version of Stellarium that Stellariumscope is compatible with (0.13 I think). Astrotortilla was a pain to set up but Ken knows all about it and there is a thread here on ISS with all the details, just search it. Lastly, get a polemaster and keep your rig assembled by the door to your imaging spot, leave all the wires on the USB hub and keep it in a box with your transformer on multi board. That way you only have to carried it out, plug the multi board in and connected one USB cable to your laptop. That's the closest you can get to living the dream: a permanent obs.
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