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Hardware supported by RTS2
Mounts
EPICS
based mounts, particularly CAHA 1.23m (driver is close-source, EPICS connection is public)
Meade and LX200 variants
Losmandy GoTo systems (with Gemini LX200)
Software Bisque's Paramount ME
Millennium Mount with Dynostar X3
Pi 4 and NTM mounts
ProjectSoft
ASCOL protocol (close-source)
MDM
custom protocol (read-only for telescope movement; close-source)
Astro-Physics GTO
GTOCP2 (GTOCP3)
Customs drivers, including modelling capability
Any telescope supported with INDI protocol (with rts2-teld-indi-bridge)
CCDs
Full range of the
SBIG
parallel and USB port cameras<
All Starlight Linux minidriver based cameras (Starlight XPress, FLIcam, cookbook..)
Apogee
cameras, including ALTA family (most probably only with patched drivers - instructions are provided)
FLI
cameras supported with libfli
Andor
CCDs
custom CCDs controlled with EDT board
CAHA-MPIA?? range of CCDs
ARC
/ Leach controller CCDs (version 1.7 and 2.0 of the
API
)
MI CCD
Moravian Instruments CCDs
Focusers
EPICS based focusers (CAHA, closed source, but EPICS connection class is open source)
Optec
focusers
Robofocuser
FLI
focuser
Pi4
focuser (Bootes IR)
Filter wheels
EPICS controlled filter wheels
Integrated
SBIG
filter wheels
Optec
filter wheels
FLI
filter wheels
Photomultipliers
Optec SP5 with special ISA card (own kernel driver for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels)
Mirrors
Own mirror design (ask Petr Kubanek for details)
Pi4
mirror (Bootes IR)
Dome controllers
Arduino
boards (details soon)
Ford Dome control (ask
Ford
for board details)
Dome control based on some PCI card (Dublin dome)
TI PCI I/O card dome controller with
Comedi
Zelio Modbus/TCP-IP control
Description
Cupola controllers
Prague Observatory Astrolab controller
Observatory Vermes
dome controller
Meteo stations
All meteo stations supported with
Meteo
package (Davis Vantage,..)
All meteo stations which can transmit to RTS2 UDP packets (as does one at the
Pierre-Auger
site)
Comedi
supported data acquisition boards
Cloud and rain sensors
Custom cloud sensors (
description
)
AAG cloud, rain and brightness
sensor, home page of
António Alberto Peres Gomes
the designer of the hardware and the
MS
Windows software.
UPS
All UPS supported by
NUT
All UPS supported by
APC UPSD
(but if you can, avoid it and use
NUT
)
Sensors, special devices
Cryocoon cryogenic controller
Keithley (pico)ampermeters
Phytron stepper motors
Aerotech arm (A3200)
MS257 monochromator
DS21 stepper motor
Newport light source
Brooks
356 Micro-Ion® Plus Modules
pressure sensor
Lakeshore cryogenic controller
TRIAX Series (Jobin Yvon/Horiba) monochromator
Newport MM2500 stepper controller
Rotronic MOK-WIN/ HygroWin humidity and temperature sensor
hw/start.txt · Last modified: 2010/02/22 20:39 by pkubanek