When I am in my back garden. I run INDI server on the Pi4, with it connected via an Ethernet cable on my home network and I run Kstars and Ekos from the warmth of my house. All is powered via house AC via 12V regulated power supply.

I am planning on doing some remote astro in the future, at which point I would probably switch to using Kstars and Ekos on the Pi4.

The reasoning for this is that I can run the Pi4 off a battery, and conserve Laptop and Tablet power by only using VNC on the Laptop to set up and troubleshoot the scheduler session, and then only using VNC on the tablet to monitor the session progress, if an issue occurs I will bring the Laptop out of sleep mode, try and correct the issue and then revert back to the Tablet (View only). I can recharge the Tablet off the car adapter, don't have a recharge for the Laptop though, so would want to conserve its power as much as possible during the session.

Hoping that a PiJuice comes into stock soon, with a large battery, then I can use both the PiJuice battery and the Power Tank together to make sure that the Pi doesn't run out of power.

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