Hi all,

Some of you may be interested in this :

Pylpaca (ASCOM Alpaca API micro-framework for Python)
github.com/T0T4R4/pylpaca

I'm smiling a bit when I see people questioning of the performances of a REST API versus an XML based one...

I would also argue that questioning the "network load" becomes obsolete these days.

ASCOM is indeed very easy to use, and even to create drivers on. I've gone through both ASCOM and INDI, and the only thing I can say is that Alpaca brings ASCOM to the linux world, which was the major drawback in the past.

As far as I read some people here are still playing in the Linux-vs-Windows primary school courtyard thing. So retrograd way of thinking...

If indeed some could build a layer on INDI to follow the Alpaca API definitions, then it would make the life easy for everyone, if not it'll be uip to the software makers like Patrick to talk both layers, which is sad...

Cheers

T0t4r4.

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