Combining the Dragonfly, the CloudWatcher’s rain sensor, and the Hydreon RG-9 for an extra-safe setup
The CloudWatcher is reliable, but even reliable isn’t infallible, learn how to make a failsafe for your CloudWatcher using an RG-9 and a Dragonfly.
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Love TheSkyX Pro? Love our products too? Then you’ll certainly love these…
RTI-Zone has developed free TheSkyX Pro X2 plugins for some of our flagship products…
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Fixed UTC Offset in SOLO
Fixed UTC Offset in SOLO As you probably already know, Lunatico’s SOLO CloudWatcher allows the user to specify the time zone the device lives in by navigating to https://aagsolo/config in your internet browser and selecting the wrench icon. This value is very important, as it affects: The time in the X-axis of the charts in
Emergency priority PushOver messages from the Dragonfly
Emergency priority PushOver messages from the Dragonfly Starting today, any PushOver message sent by the Dragonfly, if it includes the word Alarm (capital A), will be sent to your smartphone as emergency priority. This means: the message will be repeated every 30 seconds, until acknowledged, for as long as 10 minutes You can adjust PushOver
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CloudWatcher operated roll off roof
CloudWatcher operated roll off roof Many motor systems include a push button to open or close the roof. They typically require the button to be pushed for a short period of time, and that will trigger the roof to open if closed, or close if opened. One safe way to have the CloudWatcher relay close
LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! 2024 Mar: New CW and pocketCW Data Display software released! 2024 Jan: We become partners of ASG’s Astronomy Picture of the Month contest 2024 Jan: We now have a page recording our products’ latest news, and a newsletter about them 2023 Dec: You can now see some of the companies and institutions that
Remotely unplugging a USB device
Remotely unplugging a USB device So you’re sitting comfortably at your observatory, or even at your home (maybe far far away from the telescope) and you need to unplug and replug some device… the only way seems to be resetting the computer and that takes quite a long time. We’ll that was my case when
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.
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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Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network
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 policies conspire to make simple devices, such as our Dragonfly, Platypus or SOLO CloudWatcher, more difficult to access in the network. With a few tricks, however, this can
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