![]() They are fairly cheap i paid around $40 a year or so ago. Two options here, get two one for field one for home. Given your switching from Home Bridge/Repeater mode and Field Accespoint mode you dont want to mess with settings all the time on the router. If you can find one that supports 3g either via a SIM or 3g USB modem you even have internet out in the field for all connected devices. Creating a little wifi network in the field. And you connect the Ethernet devices like the G2 mount or GigE camera's etc to the ethernet ports on the WIFI router. This way it will accept WIFI Connection from your Laptop, Android, IPhone, Ipad et all in the field. In the field you would switch the router to WIFI Access point mode. So the TV, Xbox, media players all which have Ethernet ports can connect via this bridge to the home network. ![]() I have one running as my mane home WIFI Access point for the house, and the other running as in bridge mode near the TV set. Both have some custom firmware called Tomato but even the current ASUS firmware can do this quiet well. Logan/Chris for field and home use instead of getting a WIFI/Ethernet Bridge device like the Netgear (which can only act as a client to a wifi network) you get a cheap wireless router, that supports bridge mode or WPS. Skyfi deivce still actually has to have some smarts as it would hosts the service that converts from IP protocol on port 4040 to RS232. But I am still guessing that on the Telescope mount side there needs to be a host component, but i would suspect most mounts will come with this because the will need the same to talk to ASCOM etc. Next we will need antivirus software for our telescope mounts.īill, thanks for the response, that is good news indeed. Personally I am not fond of putting my Telescope mount on a home network even behind a firewall. For the backyard as long as your in range of your home WIFI, you could also use a WIFI Ethernet Bridge/Access point. The mount physically to a ethernet port and the Android via wifi. You could buy a cheap WIFI router (20$) and connect both the mount and Android to it. Yes I agree in the field the ethernet interface is tricker to setup. But I would think that it would not be hard to add this as a option on the G2, but then I think they are currently focusing on adding more essential features right now. I dont have a G2 so cant really test it to see. Or perhaps the Ascom port could be used, if they talk a similar language. And weather or not the G2 has that service to offer. Skysafari seems to need a host on port 4040, but again not sure what kind of service/protocol its expecting to find. ![]() Also mentions the Gemini Ascom interface can be setup to talk to the mount via the same IP simultaneously, so this might be on another port. From the G2 quick start guide it seems to provide a webhost so i would assume that would be on port 80 or 8080. Chris what services the Ethernet port provided is the million dollar question. ![]()
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