There is nothing too exotic about either the hardware or software in this meteor capture application. The video frames are maintained in a ring buffer...
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johnson_33122
Jul 7, 2012 6:59 pm
Hi, I am making my own mount driver, how can I put the ASCOM protocol inside the driver, the mount can be controlled by computer? ANyone can help. Thanks....
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gustavo
gustavo_muler
Jul 7, 2012 6:59 pm
Hello, My name is gustavo. I have an observatory working with ascom for 6 years, with the Lesvedome sistem to operate the dome and an lx200 Gps. use to work...
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John R Pierce
geepierces
Jul 7, 2012 7:06 pm
... ASCOM is not a protocol, its a device driver API so ASCOM can talk to your mount using whatever protocol your mount requires. 1. Install a recent...
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Adam
adamrosas1972
Jul 7, 2012 8:51 pm
The weather finally cleared, so I can now test my driver. last night was just pointing at various stars with CDC and looking for errors. Tonight I will focus...
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John R Pierce
geepierces
Jul 7, 2012 8:58 pm
... fire up phdguiding, configure it for the camera and the ascom driver for your mount. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca...
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Adam
adamrosas1972
Jul 7, 2012 9:27 pm
Thanks, the StarShoot auto guider uses the guide port on the mount so that would not test the guide code in the telescope driver, but my main camera finally...
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John R Pierce
geepierces
Jul 7, 2012 9:33 pm
... AFAIK (1), the starshoot just provides a guider ST4 style port that's accessed via USB, the actual guiding is done in the host software on your laptop or...
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Adam
adamrosas1972
Jul 7, 2012 9:50 pm
after playing with PhdGuiding for a few min it looks like I can select the ASCOM telescope driver under test and not use the on camera stuff to guide the...
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John R Pierce
geepierces
Jul 7, 2012 10:08 pm
... well, if you've configured phdguiding for your ascom device driver, and you don't plug in the guide port on the camera, and the mount is being guided, I'd...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Jul 8, 2012 2:24 pm
Bob, I wasn't referring specifically to your example. My main point is that API design needs some sort of practical feedback loop. What looks good on paper...
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rbethman
rbethman1
Jul 8, 2012 3:26 pm
Tim, Thank you. We weren't working solely on paper. We vetted the entirety in a lab environment with multiple routers, servers, components with X.400 and...
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Hristo Pavlov
hristo_dpavlov
Jul 8, 2012 10:45 pm
Hi Chris, If you were to define the ROI related members of a video camera interface what methods and properties whould you include? May be I don't understand...
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Tim Long
t_p_long
Jul 8, 2012 11:38 pm
No, there is no problem with 64-bit windows, especially if you are using a hub. Make sure you have ASCOM 6 or later though. --Tim Long ... From:...
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Joseph Shuster
joessr
Jul 9, 2012 3:27 am
Chris, I was more or less "off the grid" from the middle of May until a few days ago. BUT I did find some time (very recently) to test the new Celestron driver...
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johnson_33122
Jul 9, 2012 3:44 am
Thanks, John. Well, I know the steps from 1-5, but I do not know the code. Where to get it, so it can be used in the sketleton. Thank you....
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John R Pierce
geepierces
Jul 9, 2012 4:00 am
... install visual studio 2008 or similar first, with C# and/or VBasic as you prefer, then install the ascom developers kit, and it will add its templates to...
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Adam
adamrosas1972
Jul 9, 2012 4:31 am
I found this source code repo for a Vixen mount, it was very helpful the few times I got stuck. IIRC Losmandy implemented the Mead serial port protocol with...
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johnson_33122
Jul 9, 2012 1:12 pm
Hello Chris, I could not find the file at below link: ...
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Joseph Shuster
joessr
Jul 9, 2012 1:15 pm
Johnson, My reply to Chris was to an older message. At that time the latest release of the driver was 5.0.27 but Chris has released 5.0.28. You'll find the ...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
Jul 9, 2012 1:22 pm
Johnson, A more recent version, 5.0.28, is available here <http://http://ascom-standards.org/Downloads/ScopeDrivers.htm> on the ASCOM web site driver...
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themos_astro
Jul 9, 2012 2:46 pm
Check out http://www.guywebb.co.uk/ArduinoAstroControl/ArduinoAstroControl%201.0.0.zip the project includes source code you can modify for your own needs. I've...
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John R Pierce
geepierces
Jul 9, 2012 5:28 pm
... we're using a PIC processor, rather than the AVR in the Arduino, and we're programming it in assembler rather than the pseudo-C arduino language....
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wsrison
Jul 9, 2012 6:31 pm
Does anyone know where I can find the POTH sources now? The links in this posting don't work anymore. William...
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Rick Burke
astromanrick
Jul 9, 2012 7:14 pm
William, I believe that what you are looking for is here ->> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ascom/. All the source code was moved there some time ago. Rick...
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Wayne
wayneh9026
Jul 10, 2012 1:36 am
I would like to be able to use simulation capabilities to see if two programs (eg The Sky X and Sky Safari connected thru ASCOM and a utility called WiFi...
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James Jiang
johnson_33122
Jul 10, 2012 2:54 am
Rick, Â Thank you very much. I got it. Â Johnson ________________________________ From: Rick Burke <astroman133@...> To: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com ...
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James Jiang
johnson_33122
Jul 10, 2012 2:54 am
Hi John,  This is what I want to do. I use PIC as well, need to put the code in the PIC, and have the Sky control motors on my mount.  Johnson ...
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James Jiang
johnson_33122
Jul 10, 2012 2:54 am
H Joe, Â I got it. Thank you. Â This is used for the PC on ASCOM platform, not for PIC processor, right? Â Thanks. Â Johnson ...
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wsrison
Jul 10, 2012 2:48 pm
Mark, That's what I am looking for. Thanks very much, William...
