I am new to the whole Raspberry Pi thing. If I know anything what so ever do these devices operate wirelessly? I will assume that they do based on what I have gleaned from reading about them online. So, the idea here is to install one of these gadgets on or next to your astro gear. Using another computer install an Linux OS. Then you connect everything to the Raspberry Pi. Next using your home network connect to this device. Then you can use server EKOS to connect to the gadget. So it is independent as far as whether you use a Linux or Windows machine with KStars.

My question then would be, is it worth the money and time to install one of these gadgets for my astro gear?

Then there are a lot of choices for purchasing that it would take me a while to sift through all of the options out there.

It does sound interesting.

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