I am lusting after an HAE29. Big time.

With my CEM70, I mount the Pi on a tripod leg (thanks, Buckeyestargazer!) and plug the mount's two USB cables into it. That gives me control of the mount as well as connection to all the USB ports on the saddle for camera, guide cam, and filter wheel. I didn't even realize how sweet I had it until I had a bit of a failure and can't connect through the mount anymore. Sadness!

Anyway, while you can run your own cables up through the HAE29, it has nothing built in. So I'd almost certainly put the Pi (and maybe a powered USB hub) on the scope instead, and run power to it through the mount...and a USB cable to the hand controller to run the mount itself? That seems dorky. What about the built-in wifi? Is it possible to connect to the mount with INDI over wifi? IOptron's manual refers to their Commander Lite app working over "Wifi version ASCOM", whatever that means in English.

Of course, I have no idea how iOptron runs their WiFi control; perhaps the mount stands up its own hotspot, which would be a nonstarter unless I connected an Ethernet cable to my Pi. Since the whole point is to get by with only one power cable going up through the mount, if I had to run another cable I'd just make it USB (probably put the Pi on the tripod and the powered hub on the scope).

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