Installing AlpacaBridge onto ToupTek StellaVista controller

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Installing AlpacaBridge onto ToupTek StellaVista controller

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I'm increasingly interested in using ASCOM drivers over ethernet, even though standardisation means that some unique camera fearures are lost. The ZWO ASIAIR and ToupTek StellaVita control boxes with their Ethernet outputs look appealing, and since ToupTek devices are more open, I'm going to try flashing their StellaVita box (when it's back in stock in 3 weeks) to install AlpacaBridge. I hope then to make ToupTek and eventually ZWO cameras available via POE Ethernet to SharpCap, and more generally to my own FITS.dll scripts.

If anyone has tried this, or has comments or advice, I'd be interested. Otherwise I find Google AI very helpful.
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Finally I decided that it was cheaper and more versatile to use a headless mini-PC instead of ToupTek StellaVista or ZWO ASIAIR to control a remote camera over WiFi or Ethernet, and with the help of Google AI have written up some instructions for doing that on https://neutronoptics.com/computers.pdf
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