Sorry about the delay, not been logged on. Whilst it’s many many years since I last coded, I’d be very happy to use mine as a testbed if you ever fancied chucking some RCX functionality into your driver. If I may put in 2 suggestions for those of us with RCXs, there is a built-in Dew Heater that allows setting of power percentage, or Temp above ambient, and a simple fan On/Off switch for the OTA. So far, it’s working well with the RCX and I’m currently running focus calibration checks – a complete novelty.
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By chance, I stumbled across your thread in SGL today and realised that a) yours is being actively developed, b) you’re open to suggestions, c) you take support seriously and, if you don’t mind me saying, d) you seem to take great pride in the integrity of a solid piece of kit. That mostly works but something completely screws up the focusing so I was unable to autofocus in N.I.N.A. I run an RCX400 10″ and discovered your driver a while back but it didn’t mention RCXs, and I then found an RCX driver by Sehgal. I agree with Mr Franklin above – You, Sir, are a lifesaver. I’m also planning several pieces of software that will allow telescope owners to benefit. These are all things that my new Meade Generic Driver can do. EQAscom let’s you do it, so why can’t Meade owners get the same love. I also want to be able to connect several pieces of software without the need for the POTH Hub. I did this in 2001 when I first got my scope using a Psion Series 5, so I can’t see why I can’t do it now using a Laptop. I want to be able to set the location of my telescope using a GPS. I want a way to be able to set the date and time of the scope using my laptop, so that I don’t need to type it in.
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There are a few features that I specifically want to support on my telescope. That is, minimal configuration, they just work. That means that other people can get involved and help to create a driver that works in the way that drivers should work. Not only that, I decided that I wanted to make the driver an open source project. With that in mind, I took it upon myself to create a new driver for my Meade LX-90. OK, so the architecture of the scopes don’t really change that much, but there are things that were never properly implemented which I know that the scope can do. For the Meade Telescopes based on the Autostar, there has been no code changes to the driver since 2008, that’s over a decade.
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The telescope manufacturers haven’t really spent any time creating drivers to support their products.
Meade autostar dsx 90 generator#
Why would you want to do this? Well, connecting PHD2 and Sequecnce Generator Pro allows you to point the telescope, platesolve, start autoguiding and capture images automatically. There’s also a big bonus in that it’s possible with some drivers, or with a program called the POTH hub, to connect multiple programs to the same piece of hardware at the same time. There is a host of software that makes use of ASCOM, the ones that I use are SharpCap, PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, WifiScope to name the ones that I use.
Meade autostar dsx 90 install#
Simply install the driver for you telescope and away you go.
Meade autostar dsx 90 how to#
The advantage of it is that application developers don’t need to know how to communicate directly with any given telescope brand. ASCOM is a software platform that allows software applications to interact with hardware devices like telescopes, filter wheels, cameras and so on.