The original goal of the RTS2 development was to produce software for a small robotic telescope, devoted to study Gamma Ray Burst ( GRB) transients. The contribution concludes with a section about expected developments. The eighth is a reminder about our experiences with restarting failed devices. The seventh section informs readers about currently running RTS2 systems. The sixth section forms the core of the article-it lists currently added features. The next section describes approaches used during development. The fourth summarises communication protocol.

The third section focus is a description of how various tasks inside RTS2 are divided. The next section describes goals and history of the project development. The outline of this paper is as follows: the first section is this introduction. The project Wiki pages on list group experiences with various fully autonomous observatory projects. Project source code can be obtained from the Web site. It is known to run on a wide variety of Linux distributions, the Solaris operating system and partially on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. RTS2 is primarily developed on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. RTS was written during years 19 as a team project for Computer Science courses by students of Mathematics and Physics faculty of Charles University in Prague.

RTS2 originates from RTS, the Remote Telescope System. It focuses on describing strategies which worked as well as things which failed to deliver expected results. This article presents the current development status of the RTS2 code. After some years of development it is now used to carry tasks it was originally not intended to carry. Its driving requirements originated from quick follow-ups of Gamma Ray Bursts. It was written from scratch in the C++ language, with portability and modularity in mind. RTS2 is an open source observatory manager.

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