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Latest Product News

Latest product news An overview of our products’ latest milestones! ~ The spotlight ~ The spotlight is reserved for a recent piece of news related to one of our products that is of particular interest. Major software releases for pocketCW2, CloudWatcher, and Solo! New ASCOM driver for all of them, new firmware and configuration tool […]

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Caterpillar

CATERPILLAR Roof and dome products Caterpillar USER MANUAL Latest Caterpillar news! —November 2023: the CaterpillarR (relay-focused model) is released into the market (not in the online shop yet, reach out if you’re interested!).   Curious about news relating to other products? Check out our latest product news page. You can also join our product news

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Javascript Integrating the Dragonfly with a web page: information and even control

DRAGONFLY JavascriptIntegrating the Dragonflywith a web page:information and even control BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE VIDEO TUTORIALS MORE INFO One of the nice features of the Dragonfly is the existence of some javascript code inside, allowing for very tight integration with your observatory web page. Using this

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PushBullet notifications

DRAGONFLY PushOver and PushBullet  notifications BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE MORE INFO VIDEO TUTORIALS For a long time we’ve been using and recommending PushBullet and PushOver as very convenient ways of receiving notifications from astronomy equipment. Important: in order for this to work, you have to let us

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Parking the mount

DRAGONFLY Parking the mount BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE VIDEO TUTORIALS MORE INFO Parking the mount is one of the most important actions we may want to execute, in case of unsafe weather, before closing the roof, etc. This is extremely easy from a script (be it

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Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network

DRAGONFLY Making the Solo, Platypus or Dragonfly more easily accessible in the network BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE VIDEO TUTORIALS 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,

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Troubleshooting the dragonfly

DRAGONFLY Troubleshooting Dragonfly network   troubleshooting dragonfly network  BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE VIDEO TUTORIALS MORE INFO Network connections are very solid and convenient, but problems, when happen, may be hard to troubleshoot. In the case of the Dragonfly, it uses the UDP protocol, at port 10000 (by

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Dragonfly, desktop app (smartphone style)

DRAGONFLY Dragonfly, desktop app (smartphone style) BUY IT NOW (EUROPE) BUY IT NOW (ROW) USER MANUAL SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE VIDEO TUTORIALS MORE INFO DESKTOP APP for Windows DESKTOP APP for OSX Dragonfly Windows Desktop App 1.2 This is the desktop version of our smartphone application. Simple and lightweight, but with no ASCOM or controller configuration

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