Thanks for the feedback. I might try to do the full custom driver eventually. Right now, I really want to get to "first light" on the mount as fast as I can. So, with that goal the skywatcher_bridge has been born. It is a program which will run and accept a network connection and then translate the skywatcher commands into my native commands and then farm them out to the SPI bus to communicate with the MCU. (This is seriously fun stuff!). I have already shelled out the program and have the INDI EQMod Driver talking to the bridge application. I also already have the SPI backend coded as that was part of a intermediate diagnostic app I wrote to debug the SPI comms. (They are async which might be nice when I get to a full custom driver). I will report back in this thread with my progress.

Seems like a lot of effort for a Canon 7D MK II with a 50mm lens. (maybe I will have enough money one day to own a full scope)

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