Stuart: Make sure that the driver has the correct Longitude; I seem to recall having a similar problem when moving my AP900 to a new location and the longitude kept reverting to East instead

Interesting possibility. I woke up in the night thinking that very thing but confirmed this morning that I'm indeed using Park 4. (I started using Park 1 with tracking off with the same result and

Try sending it to Park 3 and see where it goes. Maybe you have misremembered Park 4... -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com

All - my AP900GTO CP4 has been idle for over a year and with power OFF. I am putting it back into operation and am having a weird time getting the scope to find targets (like at all). When I power

Correct, Home = Park 3. And yes, none of the position values or time changed after the re-installation but for some reason the issue is gone at least for now. - Mikko

The NEAF organizers have released a statement regarding NEAF and NEAIC scheduled for April. Please see the official statement below my signatuare. We have no idea what the online event entails

Thank you Rolando, I will give it a try next time I'm out. You know, whenever I setup, I wonder just how stable things are. My tripods by themselves are generally stable But if for instance, a

Hi Mikko, I'm glad the problem is solved but I don't think that re-installing the driver had anything to do with that. The driver has fixed Hour angle/Declination positions for the park positions

Just an update. I "played" with the mount today and more I slew it, the further it missed the home position. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver and the problem disappeared. I slew it half a

There is no # after the $$$. SkySafari from my android phone sends $$$:V# when I connect to an Astro-Physics mount. I changed the mount to Classic Meade LX200 and the $$$ is sent but then SkySafari

$$$#:V# should work The first $$$# clears an invalid command with no results returned Then :V# will return version The number 1 is infinitely larger than the number 0 Jimmy

William, Another thought. Have you “messed with” any of the DIP switches on the RN-270/SkyBT device? The default switch positions work. You don’t need to switch any of them. All 4 DIP

Long shot Some of my Linux scripts are set to display end of line (eol) as a $ sign. I don't think LX-200 protocol uses an (EOL) character # sign is the EOL in LX-200 protocol $ sign may be an

William, Although I haven’t used this combination in a long time, in the past I have successfully used SkySafari to control my Mach1 with CP3. And I used it with a RN-270 Serial to Bluetooth

Yes, you are correct. There is no $V# command. Roland

I know :V# will return the firmware version. Never seen $V#. When I send $V# nothing is returned from the CP3. William

I'm pretty sure that's not a command. I believe it should be $V# Rolando

You should be able to get polar alignment good enough and keep it so with a solid tripod. Once aligned, I have not seen a tripod change the polar alignment. Good polar alignment for imaging should

When I try and connect SkySafari 6 to my AP 900 GTOCP3 firmware V2 the mount does not respond. The data being sent is $$$:V# what does the $$$ command do? I am using a serial bluetooth adapter that