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Originally Posted by chaffingbuttock
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Hi Matthew, Yep that's exactly what I am on about and have been drooling over. That's a Raspberry Pi running PHD Linux version.
Although I did read that PHD INDI drivers were a bit resource hog and the OP of the thread then used LIN-guider. Lin-guider is an astronomical autoguiding program for Linux. However that's just one astro program running...not a whole suite.
The issue I see is that well for people like me I use an program called
APT to control my DSLR exposures (others use
BYE, or some more exotic package like maxim DL. and so forth). APT and BYE software packages use PHD for dithering images etc. So it's not that simple to dump PHD for lin-guider.
There are knock on effects.
As is with all software this is a price to pay...which will turn users away. Conformity is the key...that's why ASCOM and things like EQMOD are so popular. Prior to ASCOM it was pretty much a dogs breakfast on telescope and accessory control software conformity.
Same issue here...we need Linux ASCOM or small microcomputers that can run windows. Don't forget with windows we can downsize the OS package using things like nlite.