AstroTortilla Integration

[ifubiok]

Like a good boy, I read the manual (Pg 103), watched the YouTube video (Guylain Rochon will demonstrate BackyardEOS), installed AstroTortilla and got it working reliably, but when I open the "Advanced Mode" I only see ASTAP as an option. Is AT still supported? Is there a config file option to enable it?

[astroman133]

The only configuration in BYE/BYN for AstroTortilla is to make sure that 3rd Party Integration is enabled on the Settings dialog (lower right portion of the panel). Then in AT choose the Backyard EOS camera; the same protocol works for BYN. AT needs to be set to the same port number as you are using in BYN.

[s3igell]

Do realize that AstroTortilla last saw an update in 2014, with a pre-release v0.8 dying on the vine in 2016.  So there is limited support for that Abandonware project.

It is one of the reasons that the BYE/BYN Team pursued support of ASTAP.

[astroman133]

I know that. I wrote my own version of AstroTortilla in C#. It works better than the Python code and has some different features. It works fine for what I need it for and uses the same cygwin under the covers.

[admin]

ASTAP is free, native integration with BYN/BYN, and is better at plate solving than AT. It makes no sense in 2023 to try using AT over ASTAP IMO.

 

[s3igell]

18 hours ago, astroman133 said:

I know that. I wrote my own version of AstroTortilla in C#. It works better than the Python code and has some different features. It works fine for what I need it for and uses the same cygwin under the covers.

My previous post was for the benefit of OP @ifubiok.

For Rick:  Have you considered attempting a "straight linux build" leveraging Astrometry.net code running on WSL2 rather than Cygwin??  (My coding skills are too atrophied...)

[astroman133]

It was pretty much a simple task to write an AstroTortilla look-alike using Windows Presentation Foundationin C#. The only interface with cygwin is spawning command-line console apps. I know virtually nothing about linux or any linux tools or support libraries.