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[DDC]

I would be grateful I’d anyone out there has already done this and is willing to talk me through it.

 

thanks in advance. I would just like to do some remote solar imaging.

[gordtulloch]

First of all astroberry is so old that it has very dated drivers for it and an old 32bit version of KStars. It hasn't been updated since 2022, so strongly suggest a different option. Stellarmate is a better option if you want something very simple to install and is very up to date ($45USD) as well as supported by the maintainer of INDI/KSTARS/EKOS. Alternatively you can install AstroArch as a free option like Astroberry but it seems a little more DIY and based on your query, I suspect you're not familiar with Linux.

 

Installing Stellarmate is just burning an image onto an microSD card and sticking it in the Pi.

 

Absent any information on your config thats about all I can offer. No idea what Sha is.

[TelescopeGreg]

What Gord said, BUT...

 

If your equipment works with the included INDI drivers, putting all the apps (KStars, et al) remote back in the warm house should be fine.  That's one of the great things about INDI (and many things Linux), that it is inherently designed for client / server configurations.  I have an AVX mount and a pair of ZWO ASI cameras (2600MC, 174mm Mini), and they all do fine with the base drivers.  My focuser is custom (compiled from source), but likely any popular autofocuser system should work too.

 

Alternatively, you can run the apps on the Pi, and VNC into it from a remote PC.  Many of the apps can be updated, though KStars/EKOS is not one of them.  But CCDciel is, along with ASTAP.  This is what I do.  Together they provide a very functional configuration.  Pi-4B with 4GB of RAM or more is recommended.  You can probably get by with a Pi-3B if you're only running INDI on the Pi, with the apps remote.  Astroberry does NOT run on the Pi-5.