Hehe, interesting to hear folks buying stuff because of my work with it, in particular when I google 'mt hopkins' and realize where that is.
I have written a very crude program for the oculus, which I plan to clean up over the next few weeks. What it does is continually take exposures of 10 seconds, then stores them all as fits files. After each exposure, it also runs a script, which uses convert --normalize to create a jpeg, then that jpeg gets dumped onto the 'what our sky is now' page on an internal web server here at the house.
I did a quick kludge to the sx driver some couple of years ago, which never got committed into the svn because we had to take things down to move, and I lost the ability to continue testing for some time. The kludge was specifically for use in meteor detection, and I'll get it into the repositories soon. It takes advantage of the fact that occulus is an interline camera, and works like this.
Timestamp the end of each exposure when the data is latched into the readout registers. If the next exposure comes before 'exposure time' has elapsed since the last latch, do NOT flush the sensor, and consider 'last latch' as the start of exposure for this one. The net result is, successive images are back to back, with no exposure time lost due to the time taken to download data from the camera. It worked well for me, and after we got set up here and I got it running again, I've seen numerous times where we caught the beginning of a meteor streak on one frame, with the end on the next frame.
I did fuss with oculus a lot when I first started using it, and eventually settled on using 10 second exposures at night. At 30 seconds, you can see star trailing in the images. Mine was set up (still is) on a very slow wifi link, so using shorter exposures there isn't always enough time to get the images across to the storage computer before it's time to start the next exposure.
In the very near future our wiring project to the back field will be completed, and then it'll move back there onto a post. I will have gigabit fibre to the base of the post. Current plan is for oculus to be connected to a cubieboard, which has a wired link into the fiber network.
We are in the mode of 'rapid ramp up' on our astronomy hobby here again. I'll commit my oculus programs back into svn as an example program once I've done a little cleanup, and get everything up to 'latest / greatest' builds.