I have been using a Celestron SE mount but always needed an automated startup without touching the hand controller.
A few years ago I did a servo based button pusher based on the Celestron GPS INDI driver, ok for a perm equ mounted SE
but needed too many components for portable.
Button pusher autostart

Looking at the Celestron Starsense I could not justify the $400+ cost of it on a $1000 scope.

So came up with a DIY alignment on the same principals.
Components (I already had all the pieces, just no software to do it all)
1) 6/8 SE mount
2) PI 3
3) PI V2 Noir camera
4) 3D printed custom case with camera holder to 1.25 drawtube.
5) 30mm F4 guide scope

As the Celestron AUX driver has matured now it was a perfect fit for the use.

The combined utilities:
Does three separate blind goto's to user defined coordinates offset from LST for RA, capture and solve at each position using astrometry,
sync the mount at each position using J2000 coordinates from astrometry precessed to JNOW.

I believe the utility is valid for any fully supported INDI scope/camera combination, albeit with a few tweaks.

The GIT repository if interested:
indi-scope-startup-sync

Now how well does it work:
I am in heavy light pollution
The PI V2 Noir cam can pick up usually a minimum of 9 to 13 stars in a 1.65 x 1.23 degree field using 10 second exposures
I use Astrometry indexes 4108/4109/4110

The BIG problem is the mount itself, it just wants to skitter around so the solve fails on star trails.

It retries 3 times before failing out.

Gene