#Stellarium pocket pc drivers#
#Stellarium pocket pc update#
#Stellarium pocket pc driver#

Now when I set a 15 second exposure, it only runs over by 2 seconds before it can start on the next image in the stack.

Connected to the laptop's IP via the Alpaca client on my office computer and confirmed that I could slew the mount, connect to the camera and adjust focus. This additional time to process and send the image from the miniPC was fairly constant regardless of the set exposure length, and that makes sense, since the file size for that image is the same regardless of the set exposure.Īs a experiment, I setup my imaging laptop (which is typically connected to everything via USB3) in place of the miniPC and configured all the ASCOM Remote Server settings for the same devices. So a 15 second exposure for livestacking was really taking twice as long. Based on what I could tell, SharpCap was showing at least an additional 15 seconds or more beyond the set exposure time.

#Stellarium pocket pc update#

Please let me know if I've missed something important in my setup.Įdited by ZepHead, 25 January 2022 - 06:53 PM.Īn update on this. It seems like the same slow image transfer occurs regardless of which method is selected. On the workstation running the Alpaca client, I see that there are options for 'Image array transfer method' which include choices like JSON, Base64Handoff, ImageBytes and BestAvailable. Am I limited by the hardware resources of the miniPC? Does it need to have a better CPU (only a Celeron)? I wanted to get away from having to buy a powerhouse miniPC by using the Alpaca remote features. Regardless of what exposure setting I choose (I run from 8sec all the way up to 120sec), I see that SharpCap goes well beyond that time while it waits for the remote miniPC to send the data over wiireless.

#Stellarium pocket pc driver#

I suppose this is because I'm connecting to the camera via ASCOM instead of what I'm used to when I was directly connected with my laptop which is SharpCap's native driver for ZWO cameras. When I connect to the camera (ASI533MC Pro) using SharpCap, I noticed that some of the features aren't there. Stellarium connects to the mount just fine as well. I've successfully connected using the ASCOM Alpaca feature and I can control the mount, camera and focuser from within SharpCap or NINA. On my office PC, I've installed Stellarium, ASTAP, NINA, and SharpCap.

#Stellarium pocket pc drivers#

GreenSwamp Server for the EQ6-R Pro, ZWO drivers for the camera, and Celestron focus motor driver. I have ASCOM, ASCOM remote server and device drivers installed on it. Mike, this is exactly what I would like to setup.

I only remote to the PC to start the ASCOM Remote server. The images are stored through the network on my storage server inside the house: from camera to server. I use ASCOM Alpaca feature from the platform to connect to the ASCOM-Alpaca (compatible) drivers on the miniPC. In my laptop inside the house I have PHD2, ASTAP, Stellarium, NINA, SharpCap, and APT. In it, I only have ASCOM Platform, ASCOM remote server, and all the device drivers. I use a mini PC at the mount WiFi-connected to my home network.