These days I use Astroberry in one of two distinct ways: Indoors connected to my home WiFi with a monitor and keyboard attached (for updating or downloading astrometry files from the Internet, or Outdoors using KStars etc connected to the Hotspot. The last thing I do before closing down the indoors set up is to go into ‘Edit Connections’ and delete the WLAN references to my house network. This prevents any risk of Astroberry making an unexpected connection to the house router (which has happened in the past), and therefore being uncontrollable from my outdoors laptop.

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