Rick Wayne replied to the topic 'StellarMate - best way to connect?' in the forum. 1 year ago

I use Method 1, but it's largely because I have worked a lot at sites without electricity. I've never had a laptop with enough battery capacity to stay live throughout an imaging session, but the Pi consumes so much less power that it's easy to piggyback off the battery for the rest of the rig. Now that I've found a home with concrete pads and electrical outlets in a Bortle 5 location...huh, I hadn't really thought about it, but maybe it's time to switch.

Although frankly KStars seems to be flakier on my Mac and Windows laptops than it is on the Pi. I haven't been motivated to fix that because, meh, I just use the Pi. I do really enjoy the faster download times when I have connected directly to the gear with the (much) faster machines, wonder if it would be the same remoting to INDI.

Read More...