Remote setup from warm room

[Nigella Bryant]

Finally got around to setting up control of the mount, telescope, focuser's and cameras from my warm room. I went the very simple way with computer in the dome, hdmi cable to screen in warm room, Bluetooth extender for mouse and keyboard control from the warm room. My dome is only manual so I'll have to leave the warm room properly twice or three times just to move it around during an imaging session. Only tested during daytime so I'll see how it goes under real night time. I've installed a camera also to keep an eye on the telescope from the warm room, this camera can be turned off remotely too when imaging. 

[windjammer]

An interesting choice, I would have PC+bits in the warm room and USB extenders to the scope.  PC does double duty as the office PC ....

[Nigella Bryant]

1 hour ago, windjammer said:

An interesting choice, I would have PC+bits in the warm room and USB extenders to the scope.  PC does double duty as the office PC ....

It saved pulling up the floor in the obsy to get at the mount cabling, lol.