Astroberry remote operation setup

[HyperBiotec]

Hi guys. I am trying to remote my scope for planetary and moon imaging.
I have a Sky-Watcher Star Discovery mount with the Synscan Wifi module and a Raspberry pi 4 4GB with astroberry loaded up.
Since I don't have and EqMod cable I have been connecting my phone with the Synscan Pro app to the mount and connecting astroberry to the smartphone. It works but would like to know if there is another way to do it without leaving my phone on the mount tray. 
Thanks in advance
 

[Dazzyt66]

How far away are you from the scope? I sit in my kitchen and do it all remote from my laptop (or my phone for synscan) - its about 15m but works flawlessly. I am going to get a Ras Pi though and will be using Astroberry rather than use a cable to connect the camera.

HTH

Daz

[Stuart1971]

On 26/02/2021 at 14:57, HyperBiotec said:

Hi guys. I am trying to remote my scope for planetary and moon imaging.
I have a Sky-Watcher Star Discovery mount with the Synscan Wifi module and a Raspberry pi 4 4GB with astroberry loaded up.
Since I don't have and EqMod cable I have been connecting my phone with the Synscan Pro app to the mount and connecting astroberry to the smartphone. It works but would like to know if there is another way to do it without leaving my phone on the mount tray. 
Thanks in advance
 

Cant you connect both your mount and your Raspberry PI to your home network...?

[HyperBiotec]

Yes I can. But my long goal is to make an a dyi obsy 400km from home since I live in a Bortle 8-9 skies zone. I have now bought a eqmod cable to control the mount through astroberry remotely so I am getting close to my objective. All I am waiting for now is a guide scope to platesolve since I won't be near the scope to do the alignment routine.
So this topic can be closed. Thanks guys

[dannybgoode]

12 hours ago, HyperBiotec said:

Yes I can. But my long goal is to make an a dyi obsy 400km from home since I live in a Bortle 8-9 skies zone. I have now bought a eqmod cable to control the mount through astroberry remotely so I am getting close to my objective. All I am waiting for now is a guide scope to platesolve since I won't be near the scope to do the alignment routine.
So this topic can be closed. Thanks guys

You are better plate solving through the main imaging scope and camera, that way you can be sure of being on target regardless of whether the guide scope gets knocked out of alignment

[HyperBiotec]

On 25/03/2021 at 11:24, dannybgoode said:

You are better plate solving through the main imaging scope and camera, that way you can be sure of being on target regardless of whether the guide scope gets knocked out of alignment

Yeah you are totally right thank you. I am still very new and learning all this. I will plate solve using the primary scope and imaging camera and use the guiding scope and camera for guiding.
Now to learn all about EKOS 

[alacant]

On 25/03/2021 at 00:07, HyperBiotec said:

obsy 400km from home

If there's decent Internet and someone on the ground at the far end, you're probably there already; the EKOS scheduler does the rest. Tell your guy it's not as bad as it sounds either as it will shut down and close the roof/shutter for you too. Keep a SSH session open just in case and get your ports protected.

Good luck:)

Edited March 27, 2021 by alacant