Comments on: Compatible Software

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:31:17 +0000

Steve, I need to confirm–you’re using an Intelliscope telescope with my driver? What makes you believe that communications have stopped once you click slew? Do you get an error message, or do the numbers in the slew box simply not change when you push the telescope around? Does the telescope cursor on the screen move around if you push the telescope around (before clicking Slew)? I’ve never had an Intelliscope to test with so it’s possible there’s a bug in the Intelliscope-specific code somewhere.

Dave

By: Steve Eckhardt

Steve Eckhardt — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:17:08 +0000

Hey Dave thanks for all your great work. I’m running into an issue with Intelliscope and Cartes du Ciel. Everything seems to be working fine. I’m able to do the alignment everything reads great but as soon as I click slew your push to screen comes up and I can see comunication stop with the USB-Serial adapter. I unplug the adapter realign just fine but clicking the slew button makes communication stop again. It’s nearly instant with the slew button click. Any Ideas?

By: Matt Anderson

Matt Anderson — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:14:51 +0000

Gave up on the old laptop. Bought a $3 USB to Serial cable and every works like a charm on my netbook. THANKS for the help.

By: Matt Anderson

Matt Anderson — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:49:43 +0000

Thanks much!
I will play with this over the weekend and post my results. Worst case I will use my normal laptop and a serial to USB converter, but it would be nice to keep my old laptop useful.
THANKS!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:24:17 +0000

Matt,

I think Cartes du Ciel has a non-ASCOM native driver that works with Tangent-compatible interfaces (BBox, NGC-MAX, etc.). I know that Carte du Ciel 3.2 has this, and you may be able to run that on your old notebook. My interface will emulate BBox, NGC-MAX, Microguider, etc. Some of these interfaces don’t have a command to set encoder resolutions on the board, so you might have to run my DSCWin software to set the encoder resolutions. Once you’ve set them, they’re stored in EEPROM and will be remembered until they are set to something else.

Hope this helps -

Dave

By: Matt Anderson

Matt Anderson — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:55:05 +0000

Dave,
Thanks for the great project. I built it a couple of years ago, but not used it much.
Trying to get back in to the hobby I have an old OLD, laptop dedicated to Cartes du Ciel, ver. 2.76.

This machine runs Win 98, (I know it’s 2011, but the laptop serves one purpose only). I can not mate my laptop to your DSC due to the ASCOM need for MS Net 3.5.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:04:33 +0000

The latest driver can be downloaded from this page.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:04:19 +0000

When I go to select my Port I only get ports 1-8 to choose from and my bluetooth is connected to port 14. I read what you said about having the wrong driver but I apparently can’t find the correct one. Can you provide a link to the driver that picks up the ports from the system please. Ibelieve the version I have is 1.1

Thanks

By: Al Jerva

Al Jerva — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:10:35 +0000

I downloaded StellariumScope (freeware) today and used it to update Stellarium after installing. Stellarium now works with your digital setting circles. Ran StellariumScope, connected to scope, started Stellarium and scope showed connected. Scope circle indicator moves as expected. Looking forward to trying outside at night!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:55:35 +0000

See comment #8 in the FAQ for a brief description of the BBox protocol, which my interface can emulate. Also, see the circuit description page for a description of my native communications protocol.