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After finally getting myself a new job - I'm looking at getting my astro back on track. My initial thinking is to get the pier (NEQ6) fully automated with an embedded system such as raspberry pi, however I'm also thinking that odroid may be a better answer. I don't do the coding for that ATIK - I'll leave that to Peter and ATIK - however I may see if Peter is interested in an odroid deployment given it's additional processing power over the raspberry PI.
What I'd like is that the INDI system would operate headless from the embedded system connected directly to the mount and guider to minimise time, additionally I want to capture the *entire* guider image/star image to help with processing later offline (now I have my MBP GPU fixed!). This means I can WiFi into the embedded from a laptop and then if the laptop is put into hibernation, the system continues to collect data. I'm making the assumption that guiding is performed by kstars or the host platform rather than the embedded system.
Power isn't too much of a problem, although not having a million cables helps in the dark. The pier will have 12V power and possibly a ethernet connection or use a WiFi offload process for the images to a second machine for long exposures.
Has anyone tried the odroid?
After finally getting myself a new job - I'm looking at getting my astro back on track. My initial thinking is to get the pier (NEQ6) fully automated with an embedded system such as raspberry pi, however I'm also thinking that odroid may be a better answer. I don't do the coding for that ATIK - I'll leave that to Peter and ATIK - however I may see if Peter is interested in an odroid deployment given it's additional processing power over the raspberry PI.
What I'd like is that the INDI system would operate headless from the embedded system connected directly to the mount and guider to minimise time, additionally I want to capture the *entire* guider image/star image to help with processing later offline (now I have my MBP GPU fixed!). This means I can WiFi into the embedded from a laptop and then if the laptop is put into hibernation, the system continues to collect data. I'm making the assumption that guiding is performed by kstars or the host platform rather than the embedded system.
Power isn't too much of a problem, although not having a million cables helps in the dark. The pier will have 12V power and possibly a ethernet connection or use a WiFi offload process for the images to a second machine for long exposures.
Has anyone tried the odroid?