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Yeah! Yeah! Good Job!!! More technology bases supporting ASCOM. Thanks!! Please do send along the template. I'll post it alongside Al Testani's Delphi focuser...
... I have put this online at the ASCOM web site http://ASCOM_Standards.org/ It is featured as a headline, and also availaable on the Downloads page. Thanks...
I will study these proposed standards in more detail but a few comments from a very quick review follow: Camera: * The ImageReady property would be more useful...
Al, Glad to see some feedback! ... I'm not aware of any current-generation camera that provides this information back to the driver. So everyone will be...
... Most commerically-made camera models time the exposure internally. Only kit cameras (Cookbook, Audine), and some early commerical models (parallel port ...
I could agree with that last statement and take it one step further. I can think of many ways in which filter wheels could have requirements that vary. I'm...
... camera ... is ... in ... Only kit ... (parallel port ... timing. ... for the ... estimate the ... the user the ... real world the ... just ... Maybe <g>...
... Don't get locked into thinking in terms of today's cameras. It's not hard to imagine a "camera" that takes "exposures" much shorter than my ST-8e (pulsar...
... As mentioned, SBIG and Starlight drivers (to name 2) take integers for exposure time so the (simple) conversion is required. The reason I even brought this...
Here are some random musings after a first pass over the document. First thought: If you're going to treat cameras and filter wheels separately you need to...
There are two approaches you could take here. One is to include every possible camera feature in the standard. The other is to make the standard simple, and to...
If a standard is too basic it won't be able to compete against alternatives. The current paper looks a cut & paste of the MaximDL help file. Why would Terry...
I can't offer any camera/wheel specific commentary, but I can add some perspective from the history of industry standards that I've witnessed. Basically, I...
... Even if the exposure time is a double, the "countdown timer" could very well output an integer, because it does not require the precision. Doug ... Doug...
... Actually, something like a Foveon would not be considered a "professional" camera in the astronomy world. We could extend the specification to allow ...
... It is, in part. I was asked to kick off the discussion because we had already built an interface. I used it as a starting point, but did make a number of...
... Yes! That's why we kept Focuser separate from Telescope, even though some focusers work through the telescope serial line. Separate objects sharing some...
... Once again, Ron and I are on the same page. I can feel "design and decree" in my bones... and my experience is that trying to "do everything, even the...
... Just to put into perspcetive my previous "90-10" message, yes, it is better to include things that are needed for a variety of applications. But there is a...
I have attached revised versions of both the filter wheel and camera drivers, based on the ample feedback in this forum. I've also added a few tweaks of my ...
Some comments on the updated versions: - there a 'cut-'n-paste' related error in the discussion of the filter wheel Connected property in that it makes a...
Bob, Thanks. I really admire the work that's been done to get this far. The ASCOM movement is major step forward in facilitating software development for ...
So how difficult is it to add methods to the interface standard after the first release? It seems like a lot of the resistance I got to suggesting a couple ...
Doug, Your efforts to get these standards rolling and your work to update the drafts is appreciated... Thanks! Now for my comments <g> Filter Wheel: * I still...
... IMHO it's the latter. We're limited in the marketing we do. One-man programming shops tend to go their own way; all but the most professional tend to...
Focus offset is a property that will vary with focal ratio, thickness of filters, and pure chance. It is information that belongs in the Windows Registry, with...
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