iKarus Stellar Mate Plus, User Manual

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The StellarMate Plus Manual
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use over 15+ clients on across many operating systems.
17.19. What is EkosLive?
EkosLive is a real-time web application that can be run from any browser. It allows you to control many aspects of Ekos right from the
browser. It is built around material-ui from Google, so it is very friendly for mobiles & tablets on any platform.
It supports capture, focus, guiding, alignment, and polar assistant tools. Furthermore, it can save your images directly to the cloud
where they are stored along with a rich metadata system that enables easy search for images in the future. You can define your own
tags to uniquely identifies images of interest.
Turn on sound notifications on to get audible alerts on tasks such as when an image is captured and so on. It supports multiple themes
(Normal, Dark, and Night) to suit your seeing preferences.
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17.20. How can I connect to StellarMate directly via Ethernet cable?
It is possible to connect to StellarMate directly without going via a router. Simply connect an Ethernet cable from your PC/Mac to
StellarMate. There is no need to use a crossover cable, any regular Ethernet cable would do. You can access StellarMate as you would
normally do via the address
http://stellarmate.local:8624
Under some circumstances, the PC/Mac cannot recognize the direct connection immediately. To force it to connect with StellarMate,
find out what auto-IP address was created by StellarMate. This information can be found in StellarMate Web Manager. Use WiFi to
connect to the StellarMate hotspot, and click on the information icon to display StellarMate info.