Now I’m imaging from within the house I don’t get to monitor my mount and scope. Last night Astroberry didn’t ‘meridian flip’ when I expected it to and crashed the camera into the pier. Do any of you have cameras in your observatories and if so what would you recommend please?
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Jonathan, sorry to hear about your Meridian crash. It happens. I have always been nervous about an unattended flip. Have you set mount limits in EKOS(Astroberry) ? These stop the mount tracking if it goes too far past the Meridian. My setup is also in a roll off shed and I installed a cheap IP camera I got on ebay for around £20 so I could watch remotely(Switch off the IR for imaging). I also did a simulated daytime flip to check everything worked.
I run a free piece of software called Ispy.
This assumes that you have a network connection to your OBS-shed. Mine is too far away to for wifi to reach, but I do have power via a very long extension cable, so I connected a powerline unit at each end and now have an ethernet connection to the scope.
There is a thread on Indi/EKOS(aka Astroberry) support aboutflip crashes. If you cannot fix it, I suggest you post there. They are very responsive.
I hope your gear survived the collision
Max
I run a free piece of software called Ispy.
This assumes that you have a network connection to your OBS-shed. Mine is too far away to for wifi to reach, but I do have power via a very long extension cable, so I connected a powerline unit at each end and now have an ethernet connection to the scope.
There is a thread on Indi/EKOS(aka Astroberry) support aboutflip crashes. If you cannot fix it, I suggest you post there. They are very responsive.
I hope your gear survived the collision
Max
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