[APBeta] Current ASCOM Support?

Jared jwellman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 20 20:55:01 PDT 2010


That did it!  I knew I was missing something :-)

Thanks!
Jared

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> 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 :-(
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> What you need to do (and this is something I have on my shortlist to make
> make obvious) is _select_ the ASCOM line in the Mount parameters dialog.
> This makes a configuration button appear. Click that and you'll be shown the
> ASCOM chooser, from whence you can select the POTH, etc.
>
> Paul R.
>
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