Hi Bob, I appreciate that you are focusing on other things at the moment but I thought I should report a discrepancy between the IFocuser interface and the...
Long it .NET is 64bits.. Which are you talking about? Com or .NET? _____ From: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
Jonathan, I think you've hit the nail on the head, I'm talking about .NET. I defined the relevant variables as Long in .NET and Visual Studio didn't throw any...
Peter -- ... Ha ha -- I get the connection, "focusing" on things other than IFocuser :-) Jonathan is right - Long in COM-land is Integer (32-bits) in...
... I'll make an educated guess: It takes longer than 5 seconds for the Autostar to respond to the SG +/-xx command. I don't think it's related to the...
Hello, Newby questions alert! A bit of background: I've attached a stepper motor to my german EQ mount RA axis. I wrote a Win app to move the motor back and...
To fully answer this requires knowing the capabilities you want your mount to support. But in general, I'd suggest you incorporate the LX200 interface. I've...
Hello Chris, Thank you for your quick reply. I'll start with the bare minimum to get RA and Dec moving (I added Dec axis today) and add features as I ...
A very good way to implement telescope control using stepper motors is Mel Bartel's scope drive system. This uses the parallel port of a PC to drive the motors...
As a counterpoint to that advice, I would forget about the LX200 interface and design your own - but make it consistent. Make every command/response use the...
I second Tim's advice strongly. Design any protocol you want, write the driver to handle it, and forget about trying to make the wire protocol itself look like...
Hi Tim- I've designed several telescope controllers. Most have had custom interfaces for just the reason you suggest: they can be better. But even where I've...
Great suggestion, Chris, thanks. Coincidentally, I too have my steppers connected to the parallel port while testing so using Mel's software should be a matter...
The *API.dll files aren't mislocated. In order to use them it is necessary to overwrite files used by other applications. The installer doesn't do that in case...
Hello, Thanks all for your responses and suggestions. I got the driver to talk to my app only after I used a true hardware null modem from Com1 to Com2. I was...
Two days ago, I got a dec motor stall while doing an alignment. I had been getting deg lag for about 3 days, checked the worm and it all seemed pretty smooth....
Hi Julio, If you're looking for some code to look at, check out the EQMOD project (you can find details in the YAHOO group of the same name). Although the ...
While working on a new focuser driver and reading through the Focuser Standard, I discovered what to me appears to be an inconsistancy: Remarks from the Move...
... Sounds like an inconsistency in the document. The original intention was that relative positioning focusers don't report an absolute position, presumably ...
I purchased a Celestron CG-5 GoTo mount and MaxPoint. MaxPoint tells me to get a driver from ASCOM, but which driver do I select? None are identified with...
The Celestron driver works with all known Celestron mounts, it's the AS-GT mount that would be the one to select. There is an updated driver that's available...
Don't you just install the full ASCOM 2.6 package, then install the latest Celestron driver from the ASCOM website, then tell maxpoint to see your mount as the...
Does anyone know if there are existing locale problems in say France, Hungary, etc. that would prevent a program that is using a Focuser COM object from...
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