Thanks Bob and Scott. This was very helpful. At the very least, I'm glad to hear that it's not just me who finds this progid business a little difficult....
Hi all; Pardon the 'intrusion' - kind of OT but of interest to all astronomers, so... Please consider signing the petition against light pollution at: ...
I tried to install oleview from the ms site, but it does not install the file iviewers.dll. Has anyone had this problem? If you were able to find this file,...
In my continuing saga, I am playing around with using the commandstring function on an LX200 and notice that the following commands take up to 30 seconds to...
That's weird. I've never had an install problem with OLEVIEW. Anyone else have this? -- Bob -- Bob Denny rdenny@... DC-3 Dreams, SP Makers of ACP and...
Can anyone verify for me that the below code should work for switching sites using an LX200? The documentation I have says the digit should be in the range...
HI Roger, Thanks! You are correct. (My initial comments were the result of searching ms site for oleview.exe, then downloading. The oleview.exe supplied with...
I have a LX200. The correct formis: 1-4 Select Case Site Case 1 CommandBlind ("W1") Case 2 CommandBlind ("W2") Case 3 CommandBlind ("W3") Case 4 CommandBlind...
That explains it. The Meade document I am using Rev L 10/9/02 shows 0-3. Is there a newer document available from Meade? Let me ask one other question that I...
... 's' is sign - do not leave a blank, instead place a '0' if necessary. I use a general formatting method, with notes: /** * standard format -12^34# where...
Hello, I know that ASCOM supports ACL-based telescopes. I tried to look up the ACL technical specifications and command set but I couldn't find any. Anyone...
Jasem -- I have ACL command docs from several places. The problem is that ACL has been extended in various ways by various people. Also, ACL runs on top of the...
... ACL has ... top of ... protocol that ... they must ... use the ... and ... you can ... Hello Bob, Well I'm working with Elwood Downy on INDI, so I can't...
I wanted to report a problem regarding the Meade driver with the LX200. I found this while working on my own control panel software which uses ASCOM. I...
As a follow up and possible work around, if I use COMMANDBLIND to issue the :SL (Set Local Time) command instead, I would expect that I would not have to wait...
Ahh. I need sleep! It looks like I need to be using COMMANDBOOL instead for the :SL command. ... that ... that ... time ... even ... have ... Here ... In ......
I am having trouble using :P# to toggle the high/low precision mode. What happens is I get an error returned instead that says "TIMED OUT WAITING..." A friend...
Sorry folks, I havent worked with the ascom drivers in some time so I am a little rusty. My appologies if I am posting too many messages. I would like to know...
... Yep. SL returns a 1/0 result. Also, don't put any of the : or # delimiters into the strings passed to CommandXxx(). The driver handles the delimiters. --...
... Are you hacking the code in the driver itself????? Anyway, no. The problem is that m_Serial.Receive() only gets whatever is in the receive buffer, and that...
... This will receive what is currently in the buffer, as there isn't much time between the transmit it will probably only get one character, a "H" or a "L"....
... The place to get the docs is from Tom Melsheimer at Meridian Controls in Colorado. http://meridiancontrols.com/ -- Bob -- Bob Denny rdenny@... DC-3...
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