I'll get on this tonight after my meeting. I have the comports in the test program set to check all the available ports and only report those that are actually...
Group, All of this talk concerning the discovery of ports and the limitations of MSCOMM has me believing that some changes to the serial helper are needed. For...
Perhaps serial code for driver helper should be rewrite . Don´t make much sense to use an event drive object embbeded in hidden usseles form and to use it as...
I built an interface to control my NGF-S focuser. My Visual Basic software works well. I am not an expert programmer but my acknowledgments are good enough to...
The allowable com port numbers in various places should be increased and made consistent. It is not uncommon for users to have double digit numbered COM ports...
... You bet. 1st time usage: Fire up POTH [Setup] to get to POTH setup dialog [Choose Scope] to tell it to use the LX200 and Autostar driver [Connect] Fill out...
Since everyone seems to agree that park is a state, please add the following to Remarks section of AtPark description: "Set only following a Telescope.Park...
Jon, I also think Park is a state, not a position. AtPark was perhaps an unfortunate choice of name (Parked or IsParked would have been better in hindsight)...
... Yes, the Celestron driver supplied in the current ASCOM telescope drivers will support the CGE mount. ... You must select the scope type from the list,...
Hi, My interpretation of the Telescope V2 park process is that the scope is put in a state which will allow the observatory to be closed down safely. AtPark...
In some offline conversation, Tim Long and I have noticed that AtPark for the dome spec, and for the V2 scope spec are not in alignment. The dome spec says: ...
... POTH already has a feature to do this: Quiet Mode. Try it out. It does a few nice things that keep everything in sync. Use normal ASCOM calls to fetch...
... Beats me. ... dll based drivers can only be accessed from one program at a time. Exe drivers could be hubs, but there is some extra handling of connect...
Hi Everyone, As I opened this can of worms in the first place - and continue peeking into it to see how many are left:-) I am happy to take on summarising the ...
Recently I ran into a problem where I was getting occasional crashes of the POTH (that's what Windows said anyway) when there was a heavy load polling for...
The recent POTH thread referred to the prohibition in the V2 spec about a driver acting as a hub. (If this was previously discussed please forgive the...
... I don't think so. At this point I would expect any focuser with a computer control to be workable with the characterized V-curve methods now employed....
Is there an XML/ASCOM component to enable communication with an ASCOM enabled system using XML? Clear Skies....PLEASE! Tomás www.littlebear-observatory.com ...
Hi Larry, ... I've been working on the Meade driver to fix up several things (support for tracking on/off and such). I find I'm having to be very careful...
Hello, I'm having problems adding a reference to the ASCOM telescope helper in VB .NET. The error reports "Error converting..unable to load dll". Adding...
Good point Peter. The CommandString method adds "#:" which messes up the
native command. I guess I could eliminate this and put the "#:" into each string...
