Hi Roberto, We don't need your logs. We were aware of the issue and in fact it has been already fixed, but not yet released. -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

Happy New Year to everyone! (Apologize in advance for the long post - but I've had to trim the log files significantly and I wanted to properly set the stage with enough information to make the

Won’t swear to it but I think AutoConfig should be unchecked. It is on mine and has worked fine forever. -Steve

So, when I started up last night again the established Virtual Ports vanished and I am back to 6. The good news is because I put the focuser on 10, the focuser started up alright, but I am curious

Hello AP Team, Ray Happy 2020 and best wishes for the New Year! I updated my copy of APCC to v1.7.1.4 (from 1.7.1.0) last month and have since been encountering issues with slews not being reported as

Hi Jerome, I think I already explained why this could happen. That is, if the port is in use by something else already. Another cause would be that APCC's settings file was deleted/renamed/corrupted.

>>>I can also use that software to see if I can rename the focuser Port to something safer, like 10. this seems like a good short term strategy, good luck Brian -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio

Hi, Thanks for all the comments. I just went and tested this a little and I can delete and create the ports as you suggested and am now back to 20 and 21. I am not clear why these virtual port

Hi Brian, Yes! Just to be clear, APCC does not actually use the driver for anything. It's the driver that uses APCC. Although you can connect APCC to the driver all that does is potentially save a

Ray is that the recommended settings in APCC for the ASCOM driver as well? For some reason I thought the ascom check box settings should be reversed from what you show on that

Hi Jerome, No, but the ports should stay configured on the Virtual Ports tab if you: 1. Manually delete the first two virtual ports (if they are created, click "Delete" for each), 2. Set the

I am still having problems with this. If for some reason virtual Port 21 goes away (I am not sure why... maybe not shut down perfectly by ACP), APCC seems to decide to rereate a new Port 6. Problem

MUCH better to use a marine-type electrical contact protective silicon grease.

Anti rust?

Thank you Don , it’s our weather and you are right too . Will spray anti rust today . Wishing you a happy new year Suresh

Thanks Brian I had the latest but had stumbled across this on the site and wanted to let them know it was out of date. I usually see the notice for APCC here when Ray announces it and the AP driver

Suresh I suspect the lenses are not lined up properly or they were not put back in the right way around (one or both elements were put in backward). Not sure what to say. May have to go back to the

Any idea when the documentation for the new modeling functions will be available? Something to read ahead of time. wayne

Hello Suresh I think in your climate, you probably have a lot of moisture and air contaminants that are corroding the internal electrical connectors for the HC coiled cable. You can probably get by

Steve, I tried MS Windows own REMOTE DESKTOP many years ago. It requires owning the PRO version of Windows, But is far worse, it switches off the screen on one side, and you have to then use