Yes my rig sounds complicated but it really isn't too bad. There was a lot of trial and error to work around shortcomings with the Pi and the mount wifi. But this setup is close to the philosophy of INDI and IoT where the idea is lots of low power computers embedded in devices and networked together. The nice thing about this is that if you need to reboot one computer the rest keep running.
The Aaeon is a x64 board. At the time I got it the best Pi option was the Pi3. Some drivers would not run on ARM devices, the Pi OS was a bit flakey and it did not have a USB3. The Aaeon has USB3 and runs 64bit Ubuntu (up to 20.04 now). Unlike the Pi it does not mind being powered down unexpectedly and does not stop responding randomly after an hour or two of operation. Never had any problem getting drivers for it. Plus it has 64Gb eMMC storage so I save images to that and it is basically instantaneous vs several seconds download over wifi. Also, it has a wifi antenna port so I can connect an external antenna. The Pi wifi is rubbish due to the internl antenna. The only reason I use a Pi instead of the Avalon mount's internal wifi is that the Avalon wifi is even worse! I'm considering changing the Pi for a low powered Aaeon due to the hangups. But in the meantime I've installed the hardware watchdog on it and so far it has not hung up since then, touch wood.
BTW I am thinking of also installing a Pi for relay control. One issue I get sometimes with the Aaeon is the ASI1600MM not being found. It seems to be a timing issue and I've found a time delay relay delaying power up to the Aaeon solves it. Having a bit more control would be nice. Unfortunately the Pi Zero W is currently unavailable here. Also note that you need the Pi Zero v2 (the one with an ARMv7 CPU) to install Ubunt. I think I'll go with a Pi 3 Model A+ which is a stripped down Pi and has the same form factor as the Aaeon and only draws about 4W under load, a bit over 1W idle. There is a 3 relay hat with the same form factor.
I used to have KStars crashes quite often but the latest release seems to be more stable. It will still crash if one of the INDI drivers crashes. One solution I found is to run KStars from within WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This works well if you have Windows 11, not so well with Windows 10 or lower. It seems more stable and you can also run Ekosdebugger within the Linux environment for better debugging.

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