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In some respects, the only part of the eco system you are locked into is the imaging camera. All the other components, EFW, EAF and guide camera, if you are starting out from scratch would likely be ASI anyway as the are all top shelf products.
Of course, its a very boring ecosystem as you just set up your plan and come back in the morning and everything is done, but it makes data gathering supremely easy. I don't think it is likely to be much good at planetary/solar/lunar though, but that is a limit of raspberry Pi and the speed (or lack thereof) that it can capture data and some of camera settings still need a bit more flexibility on these bright objects.
I have been very impressed just how far the ASIAIR has come, I had an early version and absolutely hated it, but these days it's really quite feature packed and seems to get regular feature updates. Much easier to set up using a PC and Bluestacks than a tablet/phone, for me anyway.
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