One of the main reasons I have moved to kstars/ekos is the client/server architecture and the lower network bandwidth requirements. I had tried VNC, TV and Windows Remote Desktop with other capture software, only to struggle with very slow and/or dropped connections most of which were range related. With ekos, I have not had a single network issue...it is rock solid and totally reliable. It's pretty obvious to me why this is the case: indi protocol is just passing data between client and server whereas VNC is passing pixels to render the UI - - every move of the mouse, every open/close window results in passing pixels to repaint the screen.
My question is, has anyone done a real comparison of the two from a bandwidth perspective? I tried a (VERY unscientific) test using Bandwidth+ on my Mac connecting to my indi server on RPi. I ran two 3 minute tests: one using kstars on my Mac to perform some test captures, auto-focusing, plate-solving, and the second test using VNC to perform similar tests. After the 3 minutes, the first test resulted in just under 5mb data transfer and the second test resulted in over 30mb data transfer. Pretty significant.
My question is, has anyone done a real comparison of the two from a bandwidth perspective? I tried a (VERY unscientific) test using Bandwidth+ on my Mac connecting to my indi server on RPi. I ran two 3 minute tests: one using kstars on my Mac to perform some test captures, auto-focusing, plate-solving, and the second test using VNC to perform similar tests. After the 3 minutes, the first test resulted in just under 5mb data transfer and the second test resulted in over 30mb data transfer. Pretty significant.