I’ve received various reports saying that my digital setting circles driver software displays wacky port names–strange characters get appended to the names in the list of serial ports shown in the setup dialog. This is apparently because some device drivers (like for bluetooth devices) don’t correctly write the port names in the Windows registry. I’ve modified my driver to try to account for that by cleaning up the port names before displaying them. Unfortunately, when the extraneous character happens to be a number, the software can’t tell whether it’s bogus or not. So, I made the Serial Port field in the setup dialog editable. You can either select a port from a list or manually type the port’s name into the field. It’s up to you to make sure the port name you type is correct.

Click here for the new software (version 1.0.5.0). This version requires the ASCOM 6.0 platform or newer to be installed. As always, leave a comment below if you have questions or problems.