Thanks for your reply. I'll see what additional info I can feed your way to see if I'm on the correct track. I've got a 10" LX200 optical tube mounted on a Celestron CGEM equatorial mount. The nifty JMI MotoFocus Deluxe that I purchased from Farpoint came with a little controller that has a USB i/f and an interface on the top to the focus knob. It works really good as a stand alone motorized focuser. I did manage to connect my PC to the JMI and used a trial version of Sequence Generator Pro to at least move the focuser. (A big step forward). This is using the ASCOM i/f.

My target goal is to run everything on a raspberry pi that I connect in remotely from inside my warm house and avoid the 10 degree F temperatures for January and February.

I tried using FCUSB from indi while using kstars and astroDmxCapture. Neither of which allowed a connection to my focuser. I was just wondering if you had connected from your computer (maybe a pi) via the USB to the focuser and had that work. Did it?

I'll look over the shoestring site and see what I can get from that activity.

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