Star Adventurer Console

Skywatcher Apps Team

About this app

This is the official companion app for Star Adventurer mini (SAM) and Star Adventurer 2i camera mount manufactured by Sky-Watcher.

Use this app to program the camera mount for astrophotography and time-lapse photography. It can also help a Sky-watcher equatorial mount user to do polar alignment with the polar scope.

For more, visit www.skywatcher.com

Ratings and reviews

At first the app dosent work, it's just crashes. After reading reviews you need to go on the Sky Watcher website, find software and Firmware updates and click on SynScan App and find the latest update and click download. At first it won't download (at least for my security settings) you need to authorize the download. Once it downloads the app will work right away.

Zero stars. Having to go to their website to download an untrusted APK in 2021 is ludicrous and shows nothing but disrespect for customers. Furthermore, until you select the "keep connected" in the Android pop-up warning that the tracker's wifi has no internet, you won't be able to connect; instructions don't mention it anywhere and it wasted me an hour.

Update to my previous 1 star review, as others said before me, you have to go to the website and download it there to your phone. It will give you messages not to trust this provider but do it anyway. Then, make sure to enable location services for this app. I haven't used it in the real world, but at least it doesn't crash on start up. Still not happy about having to jump through hoops just to run a simple app for such a high tech device. 😑

What’s new

Fix edge to edge UI layout