Hi folks!

I sat down last night to get a Raspberry Pi 3 running Astroberry to talk to my AZ-GTi. This was all indoors as I am still trying to figure out things.

I finally managed to get them to talk. I had to connect to Astroberry from my computer on Ethernet so I could set the WiFi to the GTi hotspot.

After that I had to wrangle the EQMOD settings, which require knowing the IP address of the GTi. In hotspot mode this is always 192.168.4.1, which is one reason to use hotspot mode.

After that, things went pretty well. But I can't imagine doing this outside, or worse in the field somewhere. Part of the reason to use the PI was so I didn't have to lug a computer along, but you need a computer to change settings in the PI. (I would like to use KStars Lite on my tablet.)

I figure I am doing this wrong. Or there is an easier way. How do you usually set up a Skywatcher AZ-GTi with Astroberry?

Thanks!

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