Understood (I've been playing with INDI for a number of years for personal projects. Mostly taking drivers apart to match command sets for Arduino controllers (ie filter wheels).

The current plan is to setup and INDI driver and a web page for control (so no driver is needed for "manual control). Then to write a scheduler or to mod EKOS for spectroscopy. The issue with EKOS is that the sequence needed is more complex than for imaging so takes a lo of typing and scripting-- move to a target, check alignment or ADC, check temp, setup Instrument (grating, filters etc), image cal lamps, image target, image cal lamp, image target (?X), move to ref and repeat the previous, then move to the next target and repeat. This while maintaining guiding and plate solve capabilities and a tie into SExtractor.

I could probably force EKOS to do the job, but a new client could also process the data as it comes in and could be much easier to set up observing sessions.

Don't hold you breath BTW... kind of slow...

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