This question may be a little to involved to get a complete answer .. I'd just like some opinions on whether I'm on the right track. Thanks in advance.

I'm building a Skyshed roll-off roof observatory. I have a small form factor PC running my main Indi server (mount, imagers, focuser etc.). In addition I wan another smaller (old raspberry pi or Arduino) that is always powered up and has a minimal Indi server with a driver for things like opening and closing the roof, turning on and off lights, reading temperatures, reading level sensors on my mount etc. I could do this without Indi .. but I like the idea of wrapping all this in the Indo ecosystem so I can have a custom panel in Ekos for all these odds and ends. I'm comfortable with programming and understand the XML message passing "guts" .. but there are a few things I'm not clear about being a Kstars / Ekos newbie: (1) can Ekos connect to multiple Indi servers at once? (2) how do custom Indi control panels get made? Do they automatically "spring into being" based on the XML parameters advertised by the Indi device driver?

Thanks!

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