Connections

[Stu Wilson]

For the last 5 years ive used a usb repeater cable and powered hub to get from scope end to laptop in house or garage.

What are my other options?? and where to buy whatever suggestions you guys have??

 

Cheers in advance

 

Stu

[fifeskies]

I use USB over Cat5/6 , never had any problems with it.

 

 

take a look here

 

StarTech 4 Port USB 2.0 Extender - For Sale / Swap - Stargazers Lounge

 

[Stu Wilson]

Never had anything to do with those,

Im presuming its just a kind of more trustworthy than USB normal hub and lead connection?

 

Cheers

[rickwayne]

I'm big on the scope-side camera with WiFi or Ethernet, but YMMV. To me that flexibility is a big advantage of INDI-based software like Ekos, you can have the drivers running on an absurdly cheap, low-power computer at the scope, and then talk to it over its built-in hotspot in the field, or have it connected to your home WiFi, or plug in an Ethernet cable. Works exactly the same if you're sitting with a laptop next to the scope in the middle of nowhere, or controlling it from thousands of miles away over the Internet.

Of course then your imaging software has to talk INDI. Once most folk get a software stack working, they're unlikely to give it the heave-ho!