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You've got lots of options. My setup is based around INDI which is what the ASIAir uses as does Stellarmate and others. INDI does just what you are looking for. It takes commands from programs like PHD2, KStars/EKOS, Stellarium etc over the network and passes them on to your devices. INDI itself is open source and free. A lot of people don't realise that with the ASIAir you are really paying for their tablet software and the Raspberry PI. If you don't like the tablet software you may as well use StellarMate (if you don't want to DIY and want full support), Astroberry (a little bit of DIY) or just DIY a Raspberry PI or equivalent. They all have the advantage of not being locked down like the ASIAir.
In my case I use an Aaeon-UP core which I chose because at the time it was one of the few credit card sized computers with USB3, MMC drive and x64 CPU. The RPi4 is now viable.
Since you've got the ASIAir Raspberry Pi you could try communicating with it via Kstars/EKOS or even just try connecting via PHD2 if you have that already on your laptop. KStars/EKOS runs on Linux, Mac and Windows.
But for high data volumes a compuer with USB3 is a better choice. With my setup, downloading images over the network is slow. So I tell INDI to save them to the Aaeon-UP which is instantaneous over USB3. At the end of the session I hook up a Gigabit LAN and download over that. Other options are to save to a USB Stick and unplug it at the end of the session.
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