Hi,
Thanks for all the replies most of which I understand.
From a power point of view everything I'm using is official RPI.
I have read about the wireless using 2.4ghz but their is nothing I can do to my router to alter this, my router is a BT home hub 2 and you cannot split the 2.4ghz from the 5ghz.
I may be going about this the wrong way, as stated this is a steep learning curve for me and I'm stupid
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What I am trying to achieve is to be able to operate my telescope mount and hopefully all the imaging equipment from my laptop whilst I am sat in my house with the telescope etc at the bottom of my garden. My idea was to set up my RPI 4 with Astroberry and have this in a weatherproof box at my mount. On my mount I have a powered USB 3.0 hub and I was going to run one USB 3.0 cable back to the RPI4 and then run a Cat 6 cable from the RPI back to may laptop in the house. I could then sit in my house and control everything. This is what a I currently do using a 5m active USB 3.0 cable but the new distance is 20+ metres is the reason I thought using an RPI and Cat 6 cable would work.
The problems I am having is that the RPI4 hotspot does not appear to be stable, I have so far tried 3 times this morning to power up my RPI4 and to get it to show the Astroberry hotspot without success, other times it will show up straight away. Once I've got into the RPI 4 using the hotspot it was my intention to set up the wireless internet so it can connect to my home internet and then I can get updates as the hotspot does not have internet access. I enter all the information - Country Code - GB, then my SSID and Password and when I click OK it states I must re-boot. I then hit the re-boot button and instead of re-booting as I would expect like windows does, it appears to turn itself off and then I'm unable to get back into Astroberry as the hotspot has disappeared and the wireless internet does not work. I then end up having to re-format my SD card so I can connect to try again.
If I get the RPI running on the Astroberry hotspot and this is at the bottom of my garden how do I control it via an ethernet cable, if I plug the ethernet cable into the RPI 4 and my laptop, nothing happens, I'm sure I need to set it up correctly and if I'm not mistaken this will mean finding port details etc and networking them together.
I'm going to have to do some more reading / research into this so I can try and understand it all a bit better.
Thanks again for all the replies.
Doug