add a cardslot and perhaps bluetooth or wlan to the cameras

benni

Hi,

I wonder why you do not simply add a cardslot to the zwo cameras. I know from raspberry that cardslots do not need much space. Yet this would allow much faster image saving.

I could then direct the camera to simply save 50 images on card and they would not be needed to get downloaded. This could save time. Modern cards have large storage. Some have 512 gb and 95 mb pro second so it should work fine through an entire night...

This would also make it possible to add a bluetooth or wlan module. Then one could insert a card into the camera and direct the camera from a mobile phone to take pictures. Of course one would not transfer every picture via wlan. Only test images for focussing and taking the object into the frame are transmitted... the rest can then be saved on card...

This would spare another cable

Support@ZWO

Hi Benni

We are working on all-sky wifi camera for a while, we will consider about card slots. it's a very good suggestion.

benni

All wifi camera with cardslots would be great...

And perhaps a wifi guiding camera...

At first this looks strange but during guiding, one only needs to download the region of interest with 25x25 pixels around the star or something.... I guess wifi could do that...

Then one could write a smartlphone app that directs the filter wheel and exposure time of the main camera. It would have lifeview for focussing and preparation of the series ( testing whether exposure is ok, testing whether the flats are good...) and then one presses a button and the camera makes a series, moves the filterwheel and saves the shots on card..

Meanwhile, the guiding app always downloads a 25x25 view from the star and connects to the mount via camera over st4 from the camera or from the mobile phone to the mount via bluetooth where it sends commands to (for skywatcher mounts there exist nice bluetooth adapters)... that way one would literally just need a tablet or a mobile phone... and a battery for the cameras and mount... the mount then can be controlled via the existing apps....

Support@ZWO

It's a very good idea, I will feedback this to our R&D team. Thanks a millon, Benni :)

warnergrict

Could you please add these parameters. Surely they exist - I seen them in different software