Wireless HEQ5 Pro mount control

[davemorl]

Hi,

I have managed to control my mount with a reasonably cheap cost effective way of around £35 wirelessly.

This comprises of just a usb 'dongle' into your laptop and a RJ45 cable into your mount. It is all powered from you laptop and your battery or mount power supply.

The range of this is 1km line of sight but realistically within an urban environment will be around 500m. 

I am wondering if anyone would be interested in this build and if so I would add a tutorial to this post of the build and how to guide with pictures etc...

All I need to do now is figure out a way to do the same for my Canon DSLR but I think this will be done via USB and a raspberry pi.

Dave

[stash_old]

28 minutes ago, davemorl said:

All I need to do now is figure out a way to do the same for my Canon DSLR but I think this will be done via USB and a raspberry pi.

Its called Indilib - just plug in the  Canon to the RPI using Indi - OK you have to use either CCDCIEL (works with both Ascom and/or Indi) or Ekos/Kstars.  APT might work one day (how long who knows). Or Virtualhere Server/client set up. Indi is the fastest and cheapest route !

If you had used RPI for the mount as well as the DSLR then you could have saved on the £35 device 🙂 but more options the better for all 🙂

[davemorl]

Thanks. I'll have a look at indilib.

I was more just tinkering with stuff I had lying about. So it hasn't actually cost me anything. It is just using some xbee modules to link the serial data from the usb to the mount.

Just a bit of a 3d printed case now and it should be all done.

[kbrown]

I have an RPi running an indiserver which in turn speaks to all my devices in my rig. The RPi is configured as a WiFi hotspot so I can drive the system remotely on my laptop with Kstars/Ekos. Couple of the devices (focuser and filterwheel) are home brew (Arduino based) for which I wrote my own indi drivers.