Hi, Its the first time I'm writing in ASCOM group, but I will give my opinion of what I think the driver should look like as a 24 years old programmer-analyst...
I'm new here and I'm having a problem opening the platform. after I download it I can't run it. it says make sure you have access to that file. I don't know...
I think that we need some input from application developers. Tim's excellent suggestion is fine but assumes that the determination that it's safe or clear to...
Ah ... I thought the *application* was setting isSafe and sending it *to* the driver. Then the driver closes the dome shutter or whatever it's configured to...
Hi Chris- You cross upon a fundamental point of ASCOM philosophy here. Do applications suggest drivers, or do drivers suggest applications? I'm pretty sure...
The driver has access to all the sensory inputs of the hardware. It evaluates these and sets the state of IsSafe. The application then decides what to do with...
... I think Tim's proposal is a good compromise. No *standard* weather sensor or groups of sensors is going to give you IsSafe or IsClear. You cannot get that...
... Never mind drivers, it's very common to directly connect the Boltwood Cloud Sensor *directly* to the dome controller for emergency weather closure. ...
... Doug touches on a good point here. This could be extended to be not a Weather/Cloud Watcher standard, but simply a "Safety" standard (for lack of a better...
All ASCOM interfaces to date have been COM-based, presumably for immediacy of response (measured in msec. for example) I would like to propose a different...
Thank you!!!!! Should I post this to the ASCOM Download site and remove it from the group files? I am trying to have the "current" or "official" files ...
How would you expect your application to respond to the "unknown" condition? Tim Long, Owner & Technology Consultant TiGra Networks - The Small Business IT...
Well, the idea was to have a mechanism to ignore the value. A CanXXX mechanism would work here too. -Matt Thomas http://www.astromatt.com/ CCD Commander:...
... Then the interface should be called *WeatherAndAnythingElseYouWant*? That's just "authorized and dynamic" feature creep. Hey app developer: "Do you support...
To find a place to start I was thinking that the functionality should be a standard way to get sensor data from the weather devices to applications that want...
Thanks Doug, an application perspective! It's clear that what applications want is a safety interface, to signal what the safety device has decided to do. I...
The problem, as I see it, is that astronomy applications are an unlikely place to analyze weather inputs and determine if conditions are "clear" or "safe"....
John, The COM mechanism is the heart of ASCOM - not just for response time. I think it is beyond the scope of ASCOM to change the COM portion of the interface...
Hi Andrew Well I'm stupid, blind or both. I've downloaded beta 3.0 of MyScope and CANNOT see a "Setup Status" tab. I think I've looked everywhere to no avail. ...
... That would be me for one! I will now speak as the developer of the application suite ACP Observatory Software. And I speak of Weather-related things, since...
Chris, Sorry it was just a choice of words. Better to say a standard interface to get information from a cloud/weather application to the software that wants...
Matt, If ASCOM is strictly tied to COM, then I agree that a broader interface definition is "out of bounds". If that is the case, then I'll keep quiet, ...
Bob, " My main concern is "Is it safe to be open?" or conversely "When should I stop observing and close up?". That is the key issue, I guess. Whether the...
Ah, but the driver can provide endless opportunity for the user to define the range of safety, as well as the range of acceptable imaging conditions. Just...
... I disagree. I view these as simple Data Acquisition ports. Whether they are weather or not. ;-) ... I don't see this as an issue. There will be a "base...
Surely the user can configure the driver but just as surely, the application can configure the situation. Consider for example an ASCOM camera driver. While...
With data binding it's entirely possible for an application to adjust to any set of parameters defined in a Collection. A new sensor appears, it's added to the...
Text files are not well suited for realtime interprocess communication, for various reasons. There are all sorts of race conditions and file locking scenarios...
It does make sense for a camera control application to manage basic camera setting like binning. After all, that's the purpose of the application. But I think...
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