[APBeta] Current ASCOM Support?

[Paul Rodman]

On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Jared Wellman wrote:

> I have POTH running and connected to the sim. I then opened up AP and attempted to connect via ASCOM. I have also attempted without using POTH and only using ASCOM and haven't had any luck :-(
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> I had MaxIm connected to POTH before connecting AP so it looks like POTH is working correctly. Also from what I have read you no longer need to run POTH since ASCOM now supports multiple connections. Still AP and ASCOM don't seem to be working on my end even without POTH. 
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> Maybe I've missed something?  The ASCOM setup in AP looks pretty simple. I guess it just needs to know to use the ASCOM driver and ASCOM does the rest from there. 
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> Thanks again!

I have not been doing much at all (avoiding, actually) w.r.t. telescope control, esp. ASCOM. I do need to spend some time on it. I just hate debugging on Windows :^)

There's no particular reason that POTH doesn't work, and I have had it working fine in the past.

Paul R.