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Good evening,

This is my first post and owner of my first ESP8266!

My plan is to make my own wifi link from my telescope to an iOS device, Celestron sell a SkyQ wifi link for £150 in the UK thats 75x the price of an ESP,

The telescopes hand control uses a Tx & Rx serial conection and there are a number apps readily available to control the telescopes, date, time,GPS Co'ords, and goto function.

So far ive got as far as testing it with 2x 1.5v AA batteries and then thats it what i need to learn is how i can make this at a guess as an access point just to bridge data between the iphone and telescope.

Any advice on my next steps will be gladly recieved.

Thanks

Rick

Hi Rick,

Same project I have, after a year above you.

Did u find any solution, or documentation?

Thank you

Hi, I just try the same using ESP-LINK, but it requires to recompile the code with port 2000, and I did not manage to compile all code. Alternative find a TCP-Serial bridge code that needs simple compiling with Arduino IDE. Let's share if anyone makes progress. I wonder if Celestron used port 2000 to protect the interface.

ESP-LINK has now a version that allows to change the port. It is still in beta, but can be downloaded from https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link/rel ... 3.0.alpha0. I did not yet manage to make it work, probably needs the scope to check if the signals are ok on the telescope side.