hi!
i have an idea. i have a wlan spawn by my controller - TSC- in my observatory. this access point acts as the central network for retrieving camera images and so on. by now, I have a asi 1600 mm on the main scope, an as 120 MM for guiding, a canon DSLR with an old mamiya 210 mm lens and a little semi-apo with 400 mm and an asi 178 MC. the canon and the apo are mounted on the main scope. however, i cannot schedule two or three cameras independently using EKOS, right? or did i miss something?

what i did now is i installed astroberry server on a 2 GB raspi 4 and i attached the 178MC to it. on this raspi, i can run a second local instance of EKOS. however, i do not want a display on that one, so here is what i did:
- attached an e-paper that just displays the SSID and the address of the raspi 4 via a little c-program - just for feedback ...
- attached a hwclock - DS3231
- attached a momentary switch that is monitored by the c-program mentioned above. if it is pressed for 5 seconds, the raspi shuts down.

this is a very cheap solution, and if i want to see what EKOS does on that one, i can dial in via VNC.

is that something of interest for anyone else? i am in the process of making a PCB, so just let me know ...
yours wolfi

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