[APBeta] Scope control problems with aPv2b35

[Bruce Pipes]

Paul,

In the case of the first problem, the "Show data flow to and from  
telescope" was not set.

Thanks,
Bruce

On Apr 26, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>
> On Apr 26, 2009, at 06:48 AM, Bruce Pipes wrote:
>
>> Last night I tried to give APv2b35 running in Mac OS 10.5.6 a  
>> workout with my LX200R and had two problems. The first was caused  
>> by me, but AP responded in an odd way. I had set one of my slew  
>> limits wrong (I set the dec limit to less than 50°, rather than  
>> greater than 50°) so that the scope was over the limit upon  
>> startup. When I connected to the scope, I got a scope  
>> communications window that was printing over and over again what  
>> the scope was trying to do. I could not close the window and I  
>> could not force quit AP, so I had to shut down the computer. When I  
>> restarted the computer, I found a text file on the desktop that  
>> contained the following, which is what was appearing over and over  
>> in the window that popped up:
>>
>> Logging started at: 4/25/09  8:30 PM
>> Version=2.0b35
>> Platform: Mac OS X
>> 0.000	Get R.A. (T)	#:GR#	09:37:54#	09:37:54
>> 0.405	Get Declination (T)	#:GD#	-00*01:02#	-00°01'02"
>> 1.552	Get R.A. (T)	#:GR#	09:37:54#	09:37:54
>
> That functionality is for debugging what's happening, and appears if  
> you set the "Show data flow to and from telescope" option in the  
> mount definition for the scope. Currently I default the setting to  
> save to contents to a file on the desktop to ON, but once the  
> telescope stuff is debugged, if will be defaulted to OFF (perhaps).  
> The information in that file is very useful to me if you're having  
> problems.
>
>> I then restarted AP, set the dec limit to the proper value, and  
>> connected. Things seemed to go fine (I did a high precision slew to  
>> a couple of objects) until I clicked Slew to Home (and disconnect),  
>> at which point AP froze up. It was totally unresponsive and would  
>> not let me force quit. Also, it did not slew the scope to home; I  
>> had to do that with the handbox. I then restarted the computer and  
>> used APv1.6.1 the remainder of the evening. It worked fine, as usual.
>
> Darn. I thought I'd resolved that.
>
> Paul R.
>
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