Connecting to your Seestar

Note

Prerequisites:

• You are comfortable with Python (scripts, notebooks, or REPL).

• Your Seestar is in station mode and connected to your local Wi-Fi network or phone hotspot.

Auto-discovery (mDNS)

By default seestarpy discovers your Seestar automatically via mDNS (seestar.local). Just import and go:

import seestarpy as ssp

ssp.connection.test_connection()
# {'method': 'test_connection', 'result': 'ok', ...}

If auto-discovery works, you don’t need to set an IP at all.

Setting the IP manually

If mDNS doesn’t work on your network (some routers block it), set the IP address explicitly. You can find it in the official Seestar phone app under the station-mode / advanced settings.

import seestarpy as ssp

ssp.connection.DEFAULT_IP = "192.168.1.246"
ssp.connection.test_connection()

Multiple Seestars

If you have more than one Seestar on the network, use find_available_ips() to discover them:

ssp.connection.find_available_ips(n_ip=3)

This populates the internal IP list. You can then send commands to all discovered Seestars with ips="all", or to specific ones:

ssp.open(ips="all")                   # open all arms
ssp.goto_target("M42", ips="all")     # all goto M42
ssp.goto_target("M31", ips=1)         # only Seestar #1

Opening and closing

Before slewing to a target, the arm must be raised:

ssp.open()           # raise the arm to horizontal

When you’re done for the night:

ssp.stop_view()      # stop imaging
ssp.close()          # park the arm