Hello, not sure where this needs to be posted, I am having touble connecting my Gemini 1 up through AutoPilot 5. With My XP machine using ASCOM 5.1 everything...
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dc3dreamer
Mar 2, 2012 4:49 am
... The big question is "why"? What led you to believe that the support library for ASCOM is the source of your problem? Please don't do this. Try to work with...
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Ian
pomerolwestm...
Mar 2, 2012 5:58 pm
I have been using EQMod on the Ascom platform driving my EQ6 for 2/3 years on my laptop running Windows 7 Professional. I have recently started experiencing a...
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J Gammill
jg15298
Mar 2, 2012 5:58 pm
*Hi Bob. I understand about being tied up with other things and certainly appreciate that, I'm in the same situation. you stated: * The big question is "why"?...
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JohnOnYahoo
mosmith9
Mar 2, 2012 6:54 pm
A couple of things to try, John. I suspect you are running into the differences in permissions between XP and Win7. I don't believe your problem as anything to...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
Mar 2, 2012 11:37 pm
Thanks for the response John, permissions seems pretty likely. It seemed pretty clear that this wasn't an ASCOM issue but it's very frustrating not to be able...
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rdenny@...
dc3dreamer
Mar 2, 2012 11:53 pm
John -- Thanks very much for trying to help. I suppose I was a bit harsh, but the error message was really clear that it was an issue connecting to TheSky's...
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astrodanco
Mar 3, 2012 3:04 am
On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you need to run TheSky6 and TheSkyX (and CCDsoft if you run that) with Run as Administrator set, not just once, but always. This...
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Chris Rowland
scope_sapiens
Mar 3, 2012 9:12 am
... I don't see this with TheSkyX Pro. It runs as any normal program with no need to use administrator mode. I can set up and run ASCOM telescope drivers...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Mar 3, 2012 2:12 pm
Neither is it true for TheSky6. It runs fine, including working with TPoint and with ASCOM without being elevated. Chris ******************************* Chris...
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bob92840
Mar 3, 2012 11:39 pm
Hi, Here is my setup: Win7 (32bit), Paramount ME, TheSkyX v10.1.11, ASCOM v6SP1, TheSkyTelescope(5.2.7) driver, the "Mount/Telescope X2 to ASCOM Converter for...
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THouse
photon_watcher
Mar 3, 2012 11:57 pm
Hi Bob, With my ME I use 'Paramount ME' to connect with TSX and 'thesky controlled telescope' to connect with ACP and MaxIm. Tom...
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bob92840
Mar 4, 2012 3:45 am
... Exactly what I'm attempting to do and what has worked in the past. I had TS6 connected to the ME, ASCOM (ver 5.1) telescope setup to connect to TS6 and...
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J Gammill
jg15298
Mar 4, 2012 7:44 am
Bob, John, Chris and Astrodanco, Gentlemen, Thank You for all your support, help and time with my situation. To give you an update. I uninstalled the Sky6,...
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Ian
pomerolwestm...
Mar 4, 2012 1:06 pm
Didn't get any input to my previous so wanted to uninstall Ascom 6 and install 6SP1 but can't find a way to uninstall Ascom 6. If there is any information on...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
Mar 4, 2012 1:28 pm
Ian, SP1 will install over the top of a previous installation, or onto a new PC, so it should not be necessary to uninstall ASCOM 6. Is there a log file of...
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bob92840
Mar 4, 2012 3:13 pm
Problem solved. I uninstalled TSX, ASCOM 6SP1, and the ASCOM telescope drivers for TheSky. I made sure that UAC was off for Win7 Rebooted and reinstalled TSX,...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Mar 4, 2012 3:14 pm
Don't forget to turn UAC back on. Chris ******************************* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Mar 4, 2012 3:18 pm
Glad things worked. With TheSky6 and ASCOM, my experience was that it was never necessary to disable UAC. Both the ASCOM and TheSky installations proceed...
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Ian
pomerolwestm...
Mar 4, 2012 5:25 pm
Rick, In trying to solve the problem where my mount "freezes" I have reloaded the EQmod drivers 1.23 and want to update ASCOM to 6SP1 in ... I have tried to...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
Mar 4, 2012 6:02 pm
Ian, I just successfully installed SP1 over 6 on my XP desktop PC. The install created 4 log files (MSI*.LOG) in the <myUsername>\LocalSettings\Temp hidden ...
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Sander Pool
sander_pool
Mar 4, 2012 8:18 pm
Hi, I just installed a new version of my OpenFocuser driver on my observatory computer. After the first install I used POTH to load it. It showed the previous...
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sander_pool
Mar 4, 2012 8:54 pm
Unfortunately I don't know what caused it all but I manually removed the old .dll, rebuilt the installer, re-installed and now it's working. Sander...
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J Gammill
jg15298
Mar 5, 2012 2:13 am
Hi Chris, Thanks, I've done that. CCDAP5 will not connect to the Sky 6 if I put the setting back where it originally was, second one from the top. I can drop...
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sander_pool
Mar 5, 2012 2:21 am
Ok, the root cause is a combination of two factors. 1) the driver version is not incremented automatically with every build and I didn't increment it manually....
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Chris
scope_sapiens
Mar 5, 2012 7:51 am
There's some stuff about versioning here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assemblyversionattribute.aspx It looks as if specifying the...
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Peter Simpson
peter_w_g_si...
Mar 5, 2012 8:30 am
Hi Ian, I've replied to you by email. Regards, Peter ... years on my laptop running Windows 7 Professional. ... Star/DSO I try to move the mount using the...
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Sander Pool
sander_pool
Mar 5, 2012 1:48 pm
Yes, I found something similar and updated the sources already. The version is now updating automatically. I was going to report after testing the installer. ...
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Ian
ian.indursley
Mar 5, 2012 2:50 pm
Hi group, I have an issue that always results in a blue screen of death. using ascom 6.1 with the following setup:- Meade lx200gps lesvedome driver for RA dome...
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Chris Peterson
cloudbait
Mar 5, 2012 3:04 pm
John- I can't really help, since I have no experience with CCDAP. I just know that I have no problems with Maxim, TheSky6, ASCOM, and various scripts and...
