Hi Ray, reading back from PEMPro ? You mean PulseGuide, or ? Pierre --- In ap-gto@..., "Ray Gralak" <rgr@...> wrote:
Hi Pierre,
Yes, PulseGuide validates the return value in the range -180 to
180, so that is why you are seeing 0's.
Can you try changing Longitude from the hand controller, power cycling, and reading it back from PEMPro? Do not connect with the AP ASCOM driver at any time when doing this test in case it tries to change Lat/Long. You can even open PulseGuide's Log window to see what commands are being exchanged.
-Ray
-----Original Message-----
From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...]
On Behalf Of phenrotay
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:32 AM
To: ap-gto@...
Subject: [ap-gto] Re: Error in AP driver
This would explain why I get a longitude set to blank (for E/W)
and all 0s when I retrieve the site info in PulseGuide, or ?
Pierre
--- In ap-gto@...
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> , "Ray Gralak" <rgr@> wrote:
FWIW, in PulseGuide I use a range of -180 to +180 for longitude
(not 0-360).
I wonder if the keypad sets the range 0-360?
-Ray
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From: ap-gto@...
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[mailto:ap-gto@... <mailto:ap-gto%
40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of phenrotay
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:46 AM
To: ap-gto@... <mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [ap-gto] Re: Error in AP driver
Not a silly question at all.
Yes, I:
- set the correct value in the controller (it shows E 5 50)
for location 1
- select location 1
- start ASCOM tracing then MaxIm
- connect to the telescope (using MaxIm) and show setup
display - I click "Get..."
- the setup display shows E 4 10
Confusing: the string returned by the mount for Gg as shown
in the
trace is +355*50:00 ... which is definitely wrong (360 - 355
50 00
gives indeed 4 10, not 5 50 !!)
Something wrong in the firmware itself ?
Pierre
--- In ap-gto@... <mailto:ap-gto%
40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> , "Ajai Sehgal" <ajai@>
wrote:
Pierre,
Silly question: Did you click the "Get Lat/Long" button in
the setup
dialog? Please start a trace just before you do and send it
to me.
Also please tell me what appears in the dialog afterwards.
This code
is very simple. The mount is reporting the CORRECT
information from
your trace below +355*50:00 in AP's format really means E
005:50:00
in standard terms (they measure 360deg positive westward
from the
prime meridian).
Here is how the driver works: After putting in the correct
LAT and
LONG settings in the dialog initially, click APPLY. This
will set
the values into the mount controller (you can also set them
into
the
controller by hand but BEFORE A GET make sure that the
controller
is
initialized and you have selected the correct location (I
suspect
that you had not done this when getting the bogus values).
After
that, clicking on GET LAT/LONG should correspond to the
correct values
Ajai
--- In ap-gto@...
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<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> , "phenrotay"
<Pierre.Henrotay@>
wrote:
Hereafter an extract of the file; puzzling !
[14:25:00] Transmit(":Gt#")...
[14:25:00] ...done
[14:25:00] ReceiveTerminated("#")...
[14:25:01] ...received "+50*35:00#"
[14:25:01] Transmit(":Gg#")...
[14:25:01] ...done
[14:25:01] ReceiveTerminated("#")...
[14:25:01] ...received "+355*50:00#"
When looking at location #1, it says
E 005:50:00
N 50:35:00
This is 4.12 revision L
Pierre
--- In ap-gto@...
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> , "Chuck Faranda"
<mail_lists2@>
wrote:
Look in the folder ..\Program Files\Common Files\ASCOM
for 'TraceOn.vbs'. Double click it, select yes to the
msg, run
the
test. Double click 'TraceOff.vbs' in
the same folder to stop the logging. The log file
should be in
C:\SerialTrace.txt.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: phenrotay
To: ap-gto@...
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:ap-gto%
40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: [ap-gto] Re: Error in AP driver
Sure, but how can this done ? I see no trace check box
in the
setup
for the driver. I suppose there is a trick.
Pierre
--- In ap-gto@...
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> , "Chuck Faranda"
<mail_lists2@>
wrote:
I think a serial trace would identify what your mount
is sending
when
queried for the longitude.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: phenrotay
To: ap-gto@...
<mailto:ap-gto%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:ap-gto%
40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 3:10 AM
Subject: [ap-gto] Fw: [SPAM] Fw: [ASCOM] Re: Error in
AP driver
Hello,
I am the one who identified the glitch and posted on
ASCOM-
Talk.
If further information or tests are needed, do not
hesitate
to
contact me.
This is a Mach1 mount, 4.12 GTO keypad. Driver is
4.1.25. Helper2.dll is dated 7-apr-2005, 45056 bytes.
I wonder what is the impact. Any idea ?
Regards,
Pierre
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