restart_guiding.pl is a sample script showing simple monitoring and
control of PHD2.

The script connects to phd2 and waits for "star lost" events. If the
"star lost" condition persists for more than a specified amount of
time, the script will stop guiding, wait for a while, then try to
start guiding again (including auto-selecting a star).

To run the script you'll need to install perl.
Try here:
   http://www.perl.org/get.html
or, install cygwin
   https://cygwin.com/install.html
and select perl in the cygwin installer.

Then run
  perl restart_guiding.pl
from a windows console window.

Open restart_guiding.pl in a text editor and modify the values at the
top of the file to change the various parameters.

Andy Galasso
andy.galasso@gmail.com