power down mount-based equipment during the day

AstroHuntsman / huntsman-pocs

POCS on the Huntsman Telescope

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power down mount-based equipment during the day #174

Open lspitler opened 4 years ago

lspitler commented 4 years ago

At least the Camera fans - dust will get inside all day if we leave it.

AnthonyHorton commented 4 years ago

Couple of notes:

The network power switch has a RESTful API: https://www.wti.com/t-wti-restful-api-download.aspx
Powering off/on the cameras & filterwheels & Birgers will also need to shutdown/restart the camera servers.

AnthonyHorton commented 4 years ago

Beneficial side effect: when we write an interface to the NPS to enable huntsman-pocs to turn the camera power on and off we might also gain the ability to check the mains power status.