iOptron, Player One, QHY & ToupTek Are Backing OpenAstro!

In this video I'm reloading the iOptron iMate control unit with Debian 13 (Trixie) and setting it up with AlpacaBridge to run as a dedicated ASCOM Alpaca control hub — paired with the Player One Uranus-C Pro camera. A huge shout out and thank you to iOptron, Player One, QHY, and ToupTek, who are generously sending gear so I can build and test open-source drivers (with a little help from Claude). Big thanks to the vendors making open astrophotography tools possible. What's covered: Flashing & loading the iMate (Orange Pi 3) Updating Debian Trixie 13 Installing AlpacaBridge from the APT repo Connecting the Uranus-C Pro over ASCOM Alpaca Pairing with NINA on a Windows machine Supporting Vendors: iOptron: https://www.ioptron.com/ Player One Astronomy: https://player-one-astronomy.com/ QHYCCD: https://www.qhyccd.com/ ToupTek Astro: https://www.touptek-astro.com/ Links & Resources: AlpacaBridge iMate Guide: https://github.com/open-astro/AlpacaB... AlpacaBridge APT Repo: https://apt.openastro.net/ NINA: https://nighttime-imaging.eu/ ASTAP: https://www.hnsky.org/astap.htm PHD2 Alpaca: https://github.com/open-astro/phd2-al... Music Credit: "Red Chairs" by Anitek, from the album ShiHo — licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/An...