[APBeta] Compare Telescope Computer Settings/ Telescope Control panel

[Paul Rodman]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Ken Harrison wrote:

> What about the ASCOM/ EQMOD route? Works very well with CdC
> This gives quite comprehensive control over the Synscan mounts?
> http://eq-mod.sourceforge.net/
> Would that be an easier solution for you??

Well, (in theory) you can use ASCOM in V2 now. There is some flakiness I still need to deal with.

Paul R.

>  
> On 08/12/2009, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Ken Harrison wrote:
> 
> > Telescope Control Panel  - No option to change tracking rates??? Greyed out??
> 
> Well, for the SynScan, all of the stuff on the control panel is inapplicable (according to the Synscan manual). Although it has a subset of the Nexstar GPS protocol, it's pretty limited (i.e. pretty much getting RA/Dec and slewing to RA/Dec). There's no movement commands, etc.
> 
> I have created a separate SynScan driver (for 2.0b69), which hopefully will work a bit better than the more generic NexStar driver that's currently used.
> 
> Paul R.
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