ASIAir Pro and MacBook Pro?

Almach

I am trying to run my MacBook Pro wirelessly, which has ASIStudio installed, so I don't have to sit outside by the telescope. I thought the ASIAIR Pro would allow me to do this. This doesn't seem to be the case. Why, in 2020, is the ASIAIR Pro not compatible with something other than a mobile device?

PMTeam@ZWO

Hello, you can download the asiair app on your mobile phone, and then use this app to connect to your asiair pro, so that you can operate remotely

danplouf

@asiair@zwo#42069 The question here is why the ASIAir don't include MAC O/S. Mac users prefers to use their laptop instead of Ipads. MacBooks offers more performance/functionality than Ipads.

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danplouf

The iOS IPA image for ASIAIR runs fine on my Apple Silicon MacBookPro running macOS 11.1 Big Sur.

But I much prefer using an iPad (holding a laptop while polar aligning is a pain). The ASIAIR GUI is also more natural on a touch interface than with a mouse interface.

If you prefer using the keyboard/mouse paradigm, take a look at INDIGO Sky, an INDIGO server running in Raspberry Pi, with backend (PHD2, AstroImager, etc) able to run on desktops machines, including MacOS X and macOS.

Chen
(Apple, 1988-2005 [retired])

P.S., most of the heavy lifting in ASIAIR happens in the Raspberry Pi processor. The only time the M1 chip-based MacBookPro feels faster than an iPad Pro is when rendering an image to the display after it has been downloaded to the iPad.