I am looking at another alternative to my AllSky software. The way I look at it, the "low power" portion of it just needs to be the image capture side. Here is my idea...
Something running on the Pi that just takes a requested image and returns it as a JPG form an HTTP request. So if on my more powerful "processing" system I request:
http://server/image.jpg?exposure=30
Then that would take a 30ms exposure and return it to the caller. Or...
http://server/image.jpg?exposure=15000
That that would take a 15 second exposure and return it. You could pretty much add any parameters needed in the URL (gain, ROI, etc).
Anyone know of any software that does this already for the Pi 3? Using the raspberry pi for this would be excellent .. low power, small and cheap. I can do it on my Micro PC (full Windows), or depending on the answer to my Windows 10 IoT SDK question, can do it there.. But the Pi would be better.
Roy
