Settings

Open Settings with the gear at the top of the screen; the connection screen has one too. Search all settings, at the top, finds a setting by name. Below it, Connection and Equipment are shown in full. Everything else sits under ALL SETTINGS, one row per group: Account & Sync, Appearance, Equipment Library, Guardian & Automation, GUPPI, Environment, Live Streaming, Sky Data & Missions, Advanced, and About.

Connection

The rigs this app is connected to, each with a status dot and its device count. Disconnect closes them all and returns to the connection screen. The active rig (unless it is the simulator) also has:

Name and address — the pencil next to the rig’s name. Change the name the app shows, the rig’s address on your network, and the port it serves ARIS on (8080 by default). The rig moves without a restart; see Install ARIS on Your Rig. On a Seestar the pencil only renames it.
Remote access — claim the rig to your account so you can reach it from anywhere, disable the tunnel, or unlink the rig. See Pair for Remote Access and the Remote Access guide. Not on a Seestar.
Rig Wi-Fi — the Wi-Fi networks the rig joins, and its own hotspot. See Rig Wi-Fi. Not on a Seestar.

Below the rigs, two switches change settings stored on the active rig:

Indoor Mode — “Skips plate-solve, autofocus, and guiding. Meridian flips still run. Great for indoor dry-runs.”
Multi-night framing lock — re-acquires the saved framing for each target instead of its catalog center. The first converged run saves the reference, and later nights match it. A saved reference is fixed; Clear framing reference… discards it so the next run saves a new one.

Equipment

This section shows the rig’s telescope, camera, and guiding setup. When the rig has more than one camera, it also says which one images and which one guides. Below the cards, ARIS computes:

Scale — Arcseconds per pixel.
FOV — Angular coverage of the sensor.
Dawes — Theoretical resolving power based on aperture.

Tap Change Equipment to pick a different telescope or imaging camera from the preset lists, or turn on Custom specs to enter your own.

Rig setup lists every setup step for this rig, indoors and under the stars. See Rig setup.

Account & Sync

Sign in to unlock remote access (your rig fleet from anywhere), keep your plan/subscription attached to you, and sync your equipment inventory and named profiles across devices. App preferences like theme and UI scale stay on each device, and rig configuration lives on the rig itself. Sign In / Create Account offers:

Google
Apple (in the iPhone and iPad apps, and in a browser)
Email and password

In a browser at a rig’s own address, Google and Apple sign-in finishes on the web with a short code; see Sign in.

You can start using ARIS without an account. An anonymous session is created automatically and your data is stored locally. When you sign in later, your local data merges with your cloud profile seamlessly.

Data Sync copies every finished frame from your rigs to a computer running ARIS Shuttle. In a browser on that computer it reads Sync my frames to this computer; elsewhere, Sync status for your computers shows what each computer has pulled. See Data Sync.

Appearance

Theme Presets

Choose a color theme for the entire interface. Three presets are available:

Observatory (Blue) — The default theme. A cool blue palette designed for general use and daytime planning.
Night Vision (Red) — A deep red theme that preserves your dark adaptation at the telescope. All UI elements shift to red-on-black.
Nebula (Purple) — A purple accent theme for users who prefer a middle ground between the blue and red palettes.

The theme applies globally and takes effect immediately. Colorblind-Friendly Colors swaps the greens that carry meaning for blues, in whichever theme is selected.

Display Preferences

Fine-tune how ARIS presents information on screen.

UI Scale — Choose between Default, Medium, Large, or Extra Large. The default fits the most content on screen; larger scales increase text and touch-target sizes, which is helpful on tablets or for gloved fingers in the field.
Temperature — C or F. Affects all temperature readouts (sensor cooling, ambient conditions).
Coordinates — HMS or Decimal. Applies to RA/Dec displays throughout the app.
Time Format — 12h or 24h clock.

Equipment Library

Equipment Inventory tracks your individual hardware units (the Units tab) and the combinations you image with (the Rig Combos tab). Tap + to add a unit or a combo, or import the connected rig’s devices. See Equipment Setup for details.

Equipment Profiles can save a named entry with Save Current Configuration, but loading a profile does not change the rig’s equipment yet. Set the rig’s telescope and camera in Equipment above.

Guardian & Automation

Guardian — Night Watch controls ARIS’s overnight safety supervisor: night mode, alerts, the safe state the mount returns to if an unattended sequence fails (Home, Park, or Tracking off, depending on what your mount supports), and GUPPI actions with an autonomy level for each playbook. See the Rig Guardian guide for what each option does.

GUPPI

The rig’s GUPPI address to copy into an AI client, the agents connected to it, and a setup guide for each supported client. See GUPPI.

Environment

Weather Forecast — connect your Astrospheric Pro account (an API key) for seeing, transparency, and cloud cover forecasts on the Plan screen.
Ambient sensor — how close the rig is to dew, and which device that reading comes from.
SkyNode — a live image from a network-attached all-sky camera on the Home tab, the Focus camera view, and SkyNode settings (exposure, sky analysis, display, node). See Set Up SkyNode and the SkyNode guide.
Sprinkler Standby (Rachio) — connect a Rachio sprinkler controller so your lawn watering never rains on an imaging session: while a rig you’ve marked as outside is powered on, ARIS holds your watering with a Rachio rain delay, and releases it when the rig comes in. Paste your Rachio API token, test the connection, and choose what stands down — schedules that identify the rig’s controller, or a whole controller. See the full Rachio Sprinkler Standby guide for step-by-step setup.
Location — your site’s latitude and longitude, typed in or taken from the rig’s GPS with Sync from rig GPS.

Live Streaming

Your Go Live destinations and the OBS source addresses. See Go Live.

Sky Data & Missions

Community Missions — join shared targets pooled across the ARIS fleet. See Community Missions.
Telescopius — paste your personal Telescopius API key once, and the rig pulls your observing lists directly. See Telescopius.

Image Library

Download DSO survey images and sky tiles for offline use. The library organizes downloads by survey and resolution tier.

Sky tiles — Background sky imagery at multiple resolutions (8K base, higher-resolution tile sets for zoom).
DSO survey images — Curated images of deep-sky objects from multiple astronomical surveys. These appear as overlays on the sky map and planning screens.

Downloads are large. A progress indicator shows the current transfer, and you can pause or cancel at any time.

Horizon Profiles

Define your local horizon to account for obstructions (trees, buildings, mountains) in planning and altitude charts.

Scan Horizon — (iPhone, iPad and Android apps) Use the in-app scanner to sweep your local horizon with the device camera and automatically detect the treeline or obstruction boundary.
Capture 360° — (iPhone, iPad and Android apps, signed in) Capture a 360-degree panorama from your observing site. ARIS extracts the horizon profile from the stitched image using sky segmentation.
Import .hrz — Load a horizon file (.hrz, .csv, .txt, or .hpts). Import 360° loads a site panorama.

Horizon profiles overlay on altitude charts and the sky map so you can see at a glance when a target rises above or dips behind local obstructions.

Advanced

Driver Setup — load and manage the INDI drivers on this rig: start or stop each driver, and Save & Apply to have the rig load the running drivers when it starts.
Set up devices — what needs an answer, what ARIS detected, and the cameras step.
Driver Diagnostics — Open diagnostics shows each driver’s status and the equipment connection, with Try to reconnect when the rig’s connection to its equipment has stalled. Check it before reaching out to support — it often points straight at the problem.
Device Dispatcher — Dispatcher health shows how each device slot is paired.

Device Settings Live on the Rig

Device-level settings — camera gain, offset, and cooling targets, focuser and guider configuration, dither settings — are stored on the rig itself and persist across rig restarts. A reboot brings your settings back, not defaults, and every device that connects sees the same values.

The same is true of hardware behavior settings that used to live per-device: flat-panel cover open/close durations and angle, and rotator configuration, are kept on the rig — so the sequence runner and every connected app agree on how the hardware moves.

About

Software lists each version on its own line, labelled:

Rig software — the version of the rig you are connected to, with a button to install a new version when one is available. In a browser this is the only version shown: the rig serves the page, so the rig’s version covers the page too. On a NINA rig it shows the build of the ARIS plugin in NINA. See Updating your rig.
This app — in the iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac apps, the app’s own version and build (and its patch, if one is running). During the beta, new iPhone and iPad builds come through TestFlight and Android builds as an APK, and smaller fixes arrive over the air; the Mac app gets each new version as a new build.