Morning Ian,
Thanks for replying. I knew there must be people out there that do this sort of thing but you never get to hear who they are as its a touch niche.
Python sounds great as my progression has been Fortran/Algol/6502/Z80/C/IDL/Python down the decades and I certainly have a spare RPi knocking about…
So, how does it work then? Does it, for every possible taskable type of instruction, issue a command line process calling a Python instance while perhaps storing info in files or environmental variables? I’m intrigued.
I’m fairly certain you can call dlls from Python, so this sounds hopeful.
The ASCOM/Alpaca website said newbies should use their templates – for fear of people picking up bad habits from others – but then failed to say where said templates were. It strikes me as site designed by enthusiasts for other enthusiasts and with way too few examples. Thats said, its a hell of a piece of work.