Daniel Zaharevitz created a new topic ' Remote choices' in the forum. 5 years ago

I've recently retired and one of my big retirement projects is to get my astronomy equipment back into service and taking data. I'm almost exclusively interested in photometry of eclipsing binaries and exoplanet transits. In the past I have done sessions entirely manually and I am quite excited to take advantage of all the planning/execution features in KStars/Ekos. I have a Raspberry pi that I plan to use as the main controller, but I have a question: what are the considerations in choosing to use the pi as a Indi server and running KStars on the laptop vs running everything on the pi and using the laptop as a remote display? I had assumed that the less the pi has to do the better, but does that actually hold true?

I have a GPS dongle and want to set the time and location from it. If you are running Indi server on the pi and KStars on the laptop which computer should the dongle be on?

Thanks for any help,
DanZ

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