Hi Tom, APCC's Mount group box settings are set by default to allocate and create the virtual ports when APCC starts. Unless you have a good reason to change the settings, you shouldn't change them.

Thanks Brian. Answers a lot. There are a couple of other items. Voyager has a mount option to not do a recal. It's called "Not sync if using pointing model. " That's why I asked. Now I used PemPro for

Hi Tom i'm up so i'll take a crack here ;) You definitely want the AP ASCOM driver to connect through APCC, that's how the modeling is transparent to your connecting applications. I always start up

HI Ok. Actually what was happening is that none of the virtual ports were being created. Now that they are, it seems to be fine. However, I have some questions. 1. What is the purpose of the AP V2

You can turn off run as admin for Voyager and see if everything functions fine. If it does, no harm done. If you contact them for support in the future they will ask you to turn run as admin back on.

If you can't fix that, please contact George at AP and have him issue a return for the CP4 so we can check it out fully. Roland

Hi Tom, This is not a problem with ASCOM or APCC. The problem is that Voyager needs to be run "as administrator", which complicates things because all other of the applications also need to be run

Hi, I am not even sure I know where to start here but something is not right. First I need to point out that I have had a perfectly working setup in the past with my AP600 and Voyager and PhD Guider.

The rain event that I documented over on the AP-UG appears to have also impacted my mount. When I attempted to slew the other night I got a motor stall error on DEC, followed by DEC axis starting a

Thank you for the clarification, mjb87. That’s helpful. Karen AP

I'm a moderator at Cloudy Nights (Observatories, Mounts, etc.). There has been no breach of security at Cloudy Nights. What we have observed, common to many astronomy sites, is concerted efforts by

Thanks Ray, I think I came up with the same result using the chimpanzee solution. I normally park in #5, but on unparking it would not come back even after I move the scope to the right position. I

Again, not really. For MaxDome operation and setting up slaving of the dome to the scope, please take a look at this link: https://cdn.diffractionlimited.com/help/maxdome/MaxDome.htm -Ray

Shane, How much delay do you have configured in APPM for passive dome mode? If it is 5+5 seconds for each point, then 360 points would add up to 3600 seconds (1 hour) maximum of extra time. If it

Hi Shane, ASCOM has argued that each application writer doesn't have to reinvent the wheel to use a device, like a telescope mount. However, to actively control a Dome, as you point out, applications

Actually, APPM is not calling the shots. Because of the poor API design of the ASCOM Dome drivers, the dome driver is usually “dumb” and doesn’t know about mount geometry, so APPM’s

Hi Ted, I am glad that APPM and APCC Pro are working well for you! In general, yes. However, if polar alignment changes enough because of ground settling, or if you change equipment balance

It's a problem with APPM, not MAXDome. <https://ap-gto.groups.io/g/main/message/76596> - Shane -- Shane Ramotowski kor@... https://www.kor-astro.net

Hi Alan, I ran into this a few months ago.  AAPM does not have a way to do dome geometry so it's dome positioning command are wrong.  They are all based from the center of the dome instead of where

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