[APBeta] Startup and scope control

[Paul Rodman]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Bruce Pipes wrote:

> Hmmm....this is puzzling. As I said, I saw it once before, but I did  
> not know what was causing it. Since the wireless network is being  
> used for the control of other scopes, could AP be seeing that  
> traffic and trying to make a scope connection or something like that.

Definitely not, unless somehow your Mac is interpreting the connection  
as a serial port. Do you have any strange entries in your serial port  
list?

Do you have Bluetooth enabled on the Mac? If you do, and a Bluetooth  
device that is usually connected is not currently available, it can  
cause a big delay at startup while the device times out. Ditto for  
cellular connections. This "bug" (mainly on Windows) is a bug in the  
compiler framework. It is known about, but difficult to fix for every  
situation.

Paul R.

> On Aug 14, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I tried using APv2b53 last night to control my Meade 8" LX200R out  
>>> at the observatory I use. When I started AP up, I noticed  
>>> something I had seen before, namely that it was veeeerrrryyyy slow  
>>> to start up (even though an hour earlier at home it had started up  
>>> quickly). I found the source of the problem. Some of the other  
>>> folks at the observatory control their scopes over a wireless  
>>> local network. Apparently, when I started my Mac up, it connected  
>>> to the wireless network. It was this wireless connection that was  
>>> causing the slow startup for AP. When I turned off Airport on my  
>>> Mac, AP started normally. It was as if AP was trying to connect to  
>>> the internet when it started. Unfortunately we do not have  
>>> internet at the observatory.
>>
>> I don't know why that would be. V2.0b53 does not do any network  
>> connects AFAIK, unless you ask for some on-line resource. V2.0b54  
>> (released yesterday) does do a very brief connection after 30  
>> seconds (if an Internet connection is detected), but that shouldn't  
>> last for more than a few seconds at most (if the connection can't  
>> be made).
>
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