[APBeta] LX200ACF scope control with APv2b56

[Paul Rodman]

On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:05 AM, Bruce Pipes wrote:

> I tried controlling my scope last night with APv2b56 (Mac OS  
> 10.5.8). It connected fine and carried out a high precision slew,  
> but when I tried to open the "Telescope" pull-down menu, it froze.  
> The word "Telescope" was highlighted, but the menu did not come  
> down. When I did a force quit of AP, the Force Quit window did not  
> say AP was not responding, but I assure you it was not. I believe  
> this same thing happened with the last version I tried.

I'm going to be looking at Autostar II problems today. Although I  
don't have a beast on tap, I can temporarily modify the driver to  
recognise my LX200 Classic, and hopefully the problems will then  
reveal themselves.

Some folk are questioning why there are problems if the V1.x drivers  
work fine. Let me reiterate that the V2 telescope driver mechanism and  
associated drivers were re-written from the ground up, and share no  
common code. However, once they are working, they should be a lot more  
reliable and include many more features than in V1.x (esp. Autostar II  
and Nexstar drivers).

Paul R.