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Updating the CloudWatcher firmware from the Solo CW

The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER Updating the CloudWatcher firmware from the Solo CW BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO The update procedure can be performed 100% remotely on units with recent firmware (>= 5.71), so first of all we need to check the current version. To do so, […]

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Making the SOLO CW more easily accessible in the network

The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER Making the SOLO CW more easily accessible in the network BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS MORE INFO With recent Windows 10 “updates”, and the treatment Microsoft is giving to all computers and networks, as if all were in a “high risk” zone, many security

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The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER More information BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for Solo CloudWatcher Blog articles about the Solo CloudWatcher Technical information How to… The essentials: Software downloads User manual Readme first Readme first (SOLO Model R) Guides: Setting a static IP in the

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Software downloads

The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER Software downloads BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for Solo CloudWatcher Blog articles about the Solo CloudWatcher The Solo’s internal software updates from the Solo web menu, configuration section For additional drivers and utilities, check the CloudWatcher downloads section. For information

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The SOLO CloudWatcher

The SOLO CLOUDWATCHER A stand-alone computer designed to make the most of the CloudWatcher. BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & DOWNLOADS Technical information and configuration for Solo CloudWatcher Blog articles about the Solo CloudWatcher Latest SOLO news! —August 2023: the SOLO now allows for custom timezones (UTC offsets) to be

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Dragonfly

DRAGONFLY OBSERVATORY CONTROLLER The Lunatico device to remotely control your roll-off roof observatory BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE VIDEO TUTORIALS Learn more about Dragonfly Observatory Controller Blog articles about the Dragonfly Latest Dragonfly news! —February 2024: new software published, issues fixed, including those with N.I.N.A.’s beta. —October

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Pushbullet and dragonfly

PushBullet, PushOver – instant notifications

From Lunático we have been playing around a little bit with Node-RED – as they say “…a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.”

Truth is, it is fun, quite easy, and very useful and interesting things that can be accomplished with relatively little effort.

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Pushbullet and dragonfly

PushBullet notifications – now from the Dragonfly

For a long time, we’ve been using and recommending PushBullet as a very convenient way of receiving notifications from astronomy equipment. We added support for them in the Solo CloudWatcher, and then explained how to send the messages from scripts, so they could be issued from almost all of our products. Just now, we’ve added

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Cumulus cloud cover

Some notes about cloud detection and the CloudWatcher

Cloud detection is, unfortunately, not straightforward. Nobody has yet found a fail-proof way to determine the degree of cloudiness of the sky, other of course than the human eye, and then not always! The CloudWatcher, like most devices, uses IR measurement as the basic tool to determine if the sky is clear or not. A

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