/nexstar-hibernate-robot

A robot for putting a celestron nexstar telescope into hibernation and also waking from hibernation. Built to enable fully remote operation of a Celestron CPC1100

Primary LanguageC++

nexstar-hibernate-robot

An arduino robot to hibernate/wake/power-on/power-off a celestron telescope to enable remote operation using indi or ascom. It makes use of the fact that it is possible to hibernate the telescope by using 3 buttons on the keypad (enter,menu and up). The robot uses 2 servos placed over the buttons to hibernate and wake the telescope. The robot also controls the 12v supply to the scope using a relay.

See https://github.com/dokeeffe/nexstar-hibernate-robot/wiki/Building-the-hardware for more details

The scripts in commandPython do not work with linux. Instead, build and use the nxhibernate command in commandBinary

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The Hibernate/Wake serial commands are not available in versions <5.21 of the handset which makes this robot necessary for fully remote operation for versions 4x of the handset.