Dual Asi Air plus's

lostcastle

Does anyone know if, or use 2 Asi Air plus's together with 2 separate tablets or cell phones, will that work without interference between the two. I recently purchased a second unit for a new rig, new im thinking that the may not work together, any ideas tip or trick would be appreciated.

Eriktim82

lostcastle you'll be fine. I use 2 different asiairs and use them both with the same tablet.

w7ay

lostcastle use 2 Asi Air plus's together with 2 separate tablets

You can connect multiple tablets/computers to an ASIAIR device, but currently limited to two tablet/computers per ASIAIR device (and there are still bugs with display refreshing).

You can of course have as many ASIAIR devices, but they cannot be synchonised with one another. I.e., dithering with two cameras (each controlled by its own ASAIR) on the same mount will not work.

You can switch one tablet/computer betwen multiple ASIAIR devices. But it is not instantaneous -- you have to go though two or three windows before you are switched over (plus a lot of image rotations to make you dizzy).

If you have WiFi interference between two ASIAIR, you can always choose 2.4 GHz band for one, and 5 GHz band for the other. Or even better, just use Ethernet connection.

Chen

heyjp

w7ay
Chen, I am running the latest ASIAIR version (11.08) as of 6/14/23.

I have two ASIAIR+ setups on different WiFi's on my Home and Farm house networks. Trying to remotely access each and switch between them.

I have successfully setup a nice network of TailScale clients running on my iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision. And I have TailScale hosts on my Farm WiFI and my Home WiFi. The hosts are on AppleTV's with a published subnet for each (Farm 192.168.1.0/24 and Home 192.168.4.1/24)

I have to use CONNECT BY IP on the opening screen of ASIAIR when I am remote to both. (The scan sees neither). But, once I connect to one of them, the "Switch ASIAIR" command doesn't see the other and there is no way to access "CONNECT BY IP" again. Dead in water.

Any ideas how to switch between 2 ASIAIRs on two different networks and subnets? I ALMOST have a great setup that was simple to install.

Jim in Boulder

lostcastle

Thank you Guys! That was the answer I was hoping to hear!
I didn't want to open the package until I was sure. I greatly appreciate the responses.
Clear skies to you both.

w7ay

heyjp (The scan sees neither).

Hi Jim,

Have you tried using a "travel router," and connect your two ASIAIR and your iPads/iPhones to it? I.e., let the travel router be a common DHCP router. That might make ZWO's implementation of Zeroconf work better. And the travel router can be close(r) to the ASIAIR.

They are really cheap and works off USB power:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Wireless-Travel-Router-TL-WR902AC/dp/B01N5RCZQH/
https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-SFT1200-Secure-Travel-Router/dp/B09N72FMH5

The travel routers can be configured to be its own network, and using some other router on a different network (e.g., your home network) to connect to the WAN, if you need internet services.

Indeed (at least with the Opal), if you have Cellular tower within sight, you can ask the router to use a "Mobile hotspot" as the WAN spigot, and that will give your devices (like iPhone that is connected to the travel router) access to the internet too.

https://www.t-mobile.com/hotspot-iot-connected-devices/jextream-rg2100-5g-mobile-hotspot

Not only that, if the ASIAIR has a problem reaching your router even at home, just use one of these hotspots to get to the internet (cell tower) directly instead of through your home network.

(You need to add the Mobile hotspot as a line to your exisiting cell phone contract. They exist to make money, so you just need to make money faster than they can suck the money away from you :-) At least T-mobile is "all-you can eat", as long as you don't mind being throttled when you exceed what you paid for.

Chen

heyjp

w7ay

Hi Chen!

Thanks for the detailed response. My perceived issue isn’t a problem with the ASIAIR’S reaching my local WiFi networks… my farm telescope/Air has an Ethernet line direct connecting to FarmNet. And my home telescope/Air connects reliably to HomeNet wirelessly. And when I’m remote from both, the TailScale lets me access both Farm and Home networks simultaneously. The problem is having the AIR-app reach both. Once I connect to one of them with “connect by IP” there is no way (that I know) to easily switch to the other on a different connected subnet. AIR-app just wants to look on the current network with no access (that I can find) to repeat a “connect to IP” to reach the other.

TailScale is simple and almost, ALMOST, a perfect solution.

Jim