Allsky camera HARDWARE (stick PC) questions

[Wiu-Wiu]

I was running a raspberry pi in my allsky setup, but the software was having too many hickups. Image capture was ok, but in the morning, it stopped making and uploading the keogram, movie, and startrails. I could make them manually but it was too much of a hassle to do this every day, and too time consuming to make them on a  weekly basis. 

 

So I upgraded the pi to a stick pc, so I could run Allskeye on it. 

But... 

- The stick pc loses connection with my wifi network as soon as I close the box. I'm hoping a USB wifi antennae will help with that. 

- The stick PC (Atom X5-Z8350 board in a Morefine M1S) DOES NOT AUTO START when power is applied. I have tried changing the settings in the bios, but it does not show this option. 

 

Questions: 

1. Can I change the bios so the stick PC auto boots when power is restored? Or is there another way? I'm not really keen on crawling onto my roof every time to push a button.

2. Which stick PC's are usually used in allsky setups and how do you prevent disconnection to the wifi network? 

 

 

 

If this particular stick pc is useless for this, I'll just run NINA on it and put it on my scope. 

[Dr_Ju_ju]

I'm afraid to say, you get what you pay for, and this device is not intended for the use you wish to put it to (there are some really scathing reviews on it).....

If you wanted a step up from the Raspberry Pi, then I'd suggest something like the Odroid XU4 (https://www.odroid.co.uk/hardkernel-odroid-xu4) or the Pine Rock64 (https://www.pine64.org/devices/single-board-computers/rock64/) which can natively run all the same software as the Pi, but has a lot more balls to it with....