Kris, Thanks for sharing your thinking. I find the design tradeoffs in developing a telescope mount a very interesting subject. One could make the case that the designers of tracking mounts adopted wo

Could you expound further on the reasoning behind the statement: "Belt driven mounts should work better than conventional worm gear mounts if the sampling rate and resolution is high enough for autogu

I have been following this thread with great interest. Very cool idea to use car wheel bearings! The discussion is touching on one of my interests which is how to measure tracking mounts in the worksh

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I am still using my Weller PU-1 acquired in 1973...

I forgot to add, if my thinking is correct, if you sync after plate solving, it really does not matter what your original target is, just that the plate solving worked. Not the case for sync from the

Though a number of people in this forum have explained the sync/align process (thanks!), I have continued to struggle to understand the relationship between the sync operation on Onstep versus sync wh

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I am hesitant to throw this in the mix but I have experienced strange behavior with the wemos mini pro modules which I think are clones. It relates to powering the module via its 5 volt pin versus pow

I will try to do it robustly. Given I have success, I may ask to pass it by the forum for review before contributing it.

Dave, Thanks for info. Thanks for the pointer to the area in the code. Off to hack some code.

I was just looking at what I think is the latest SHC code in Github and it appears that the display dim and the display blank timeouts config settings have been eliminated?? Or am I lost in the weeds?

Thanks. Using a phone battery pack looks like a great solution for me.

Drew, I am planning on using that idea…using a phone external battery pack. Question…are you conditioning or regulating the 5 volts from the battery pack before it powers the shc? I take it there is s

Dave, Thanks...very clear explanation. On to order the pcb....

Thanks everyone for answering my questions re: wifiSHC. I think I will take a run at it. I would appreciate if someone would confirm the network architecture that I would like to use would probably wo

This sounds intriguing. Could I ask that someone describe the big picture here of what is going on? Maybe a block diagram showing the interface between the ESP, the SHC and the ONstep? I am currently

Khalid, Thanks for the additonal detail and explanation. The mention of Taki brings back memories of my first foray into astronomy a few decades ago. I had an HP 41C programmable hand held (sort of ha

Khalid, Thanks. I am heading for plate solving assisted alignment and ultimately guided tracking. I must confess that the more I read about "alignment" and the more confused I become. If I understand

Ahhh...the light is starting to dawn over Marblehead (a colloquial expression that is used here in Massachusets USA...there is a city on the coast called "Marblehead"..you get the gist..anyway...). Le

Thanks Khalid. Interesting…. So if I understand that seems to imply there is no way to use plate solving with onstep to do an alignment I.e. build the model. Is that correct? I guess I could do plate