Code review comment for lp:~petr-kubanek/stellarium/stellarium

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gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

Ah, that sounds like it. I hope I can try tonight, maybe only on Wednesday. Please handle the connection errors at least with diagnostic messages to the logfile like "cannot connect, is rts2-httpd running on <IP address>?"; "User XXX unknown. Use rts2-user -a XXX to create"; "User XXX cannot control telescope. See manual for details." and please write this section for our guide (there is a \sectionauthor*{} macro to mark personal contributions). You made incredible software, but is is quite advanced and users will flood us *or you* with emails with always the same questions when these are not easily answered in manuals :-) When you write a general manual for RTS2, I am afraid this should include a short intro to psql. If you don't have the time (I understand we are all busy), maybe some DIY observatory maker can write such intro booklet for beginners while he is building it, based on his own experiences and pitfalls. The telescope parameters look impressive alone, all those mount tweaks, ...

Is there a useful scenario for RTS2 with mobile telescope? Just to run an automated night of captures from an object list? (No dome, no weather sensors, ... just a mount, DSLR or CCD, optional filter wheel, optional autofocuser?) Not sure about the resources, but they don't look too big. RTS2 could maybe run on a small low-power ARM SBC or so (think Raspberry Pi3?).

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