Roll Off Roof control for USB relay

Hi Joe

One excellent ascom compliant relay and sensor unit is Lunatico Astronomia’s Dragonfly, here. It is an observatory controller and you can use it not only to send a pulse to trigger your roof motor but also power on/off your equipment, link to your weather station and a myriad of other tasks.

I use one in my home observatory and also my shared remote observatory at e-Eye, Spain. The software comes with ascom compliant scripts for your roof and it works seamlessly with SGP.

If your budget can stretch to the Dragonfly, it is a superb piece of very versatile equipment. Jaime at Lunatico is very helpful and gives very good customer service. He also has been known to post on here . . .

There are other usb/ethernet switch relays available, eg KMTronic and you could build your own scripts of course.

HTH.