Ok, so here's where I'm at - getting pretty psyched!

* I'll still need to pick a focuser driver to start from (by "bare" do you mean "start from scratch"?). Need something suitable for "simple' mode.
* Looking into the GPUSB driver led me to a modified version of it, the ArduST4 driver. I figured out that I need to edit the xml files in /usr/share/indi and /usr/share/kstars to make ArduST4 show up in the INDI control panel. I've written Python code to talk to ArduST4 via a PTY.
* I can apparently have Digital Setting Circles loaded as a Telescope and ArduST4 loaded as an Auxiliary device. I don't know if that does the right things or not yet.
* The No-IR PiCamera can capture video in Motion-JPEG format and stills in RGB 8-8-8 format.
* The Canon 70D works with the GPhoto CCD driver but not the Canon DSLR driver (which gives me I/O errors). FITS images take pretty long to download.
* I'm able to start a test guider calibration (it times out after a while because the mount isn't hooked up right now and it's taking pictures of the room wall)

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