The CloudWatcher‘s K-factors are at the core of its reliability when it comes to measuring sky temperature and cloudiness, and make the job of their owners a lot easier.
CloudWatcher K-Factor optimisation tool Leer más »
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.
RTI-Zone has developed free TheSkyX Pro X2 plugins for some of our flagship products…
Love TheSkyX Pro? Love our products too? Then you’ll certainly love these… Leer más »
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
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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 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
CloudWatcher operated roll off roof Leer más »
LATEST NEWS! 2025 Feb: It’s official—we’ll be attending this year’s NEAF. 2024 October: New pocketCW2 configuration application released. 2024 May: RTI-Zone releases free plugins for our devices. 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
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
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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, PushOver – instant notifications Leer más »
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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