Howard, the keypad is connected, but I pushed no buttons and it is set for EXT. Therefore I would expect that it would not send anything to the mount. Am I correct here? Thanks, Larry

Hi Larry, How is the mount being initialized? Is the keypad connected, perhaps? If the keypad or another program has already unparked the mount, then the ASCOM driver simply establishes

Hi Larry, again.' I have The out of range value should be highlighted. Click the "Advanced" button in the setup dialog and check all parameters. through the start In my opinion it is the

I have been using ASCOM V2 driver V5.99.58 and have had the problem of the mount tracking after I connect to ASCOM V2 through ACP. I have unchecked 'Enable Mount Tracking on Unpark.' To keep the scope

John wrote: file and started over OK, great!! -Ray

John, is correct. You know it just get rid of Moving forward you are probably going to want the v5 driver as I don't think we want to support old versions of the driver. You want to copy AP.INI

I got the problem fixed Ray, I had a bad ap.ini file in the astro-physics all user folder. I changed the name of the file and started over from scratch and now it seems to be working

Ray is there anyway I could talk to you on the phone, we might get this done faster. John

Well at this point I have ap ini files in both all user folder and my name user file folder. I no longer no which one is correct. You know it might be just as easy to use v4.99.58 it works perfectly,

John, Did you copy your ap.ini file from you're my Documents directory over to the new directory? -Ray

Hi Ray you were right files were hidden just don't remember switching it back to hidden. Anyway still doing it just tried to slew to Talitha heading over the top for a crash, but I do have the log

John, Here's perhaps an even easier way to get to AP.INI: In windows click: Start->Program Files->Astro-Physics->ASCOM Driver->Setup Telescope In the driver setup window click the "Open Log

Hi John, It's possible the directory is hidden. The simplest way to locate the file is to go into Windows explorer and right click on your C: drive and select "Search". Enter "ap.ini" as the file to

Hi Ray this is a win xp computer I did re-install v5 went through setup dialog, still no ap ini file in all user folder. I can run setup telescope from all programs, astro-physics, enter all relevant

Hi John, Are you running XP? Or Vista/Win7? If Vista/Win7 then the directory is different. Look in c:\progdata. The INI file won't get created until you run the driver or the setup dialog. Try

Hi Vello/Dave, Yes, a delayed response can happen on the bottom port. I've seen the Dec off occasionally by 1 arc-sec but I haven't worried about it. It is likely, as you say, a round off error

Hi Ray there is something strange going on with the initialization of the mount, and I do not believe it is a problem with your driver. I just went out to see what version I re-installed and it is

rimfire44 wrote: Dave, I control my AP1200 GTO (CP3) via the serial interface via code written in C. I have experienced such delays and the occasional lost packet. However, I use the lower port and,

Hi John, It's not that I don't believe you but there have been no changes to the slewing scheme in the driver since March (v4.99.58). And even so the driver just tells the controller coordinates

Well after spending a very frustrating 1 1/2 hrs trying to get my mount to behave I gave up and removed the latest driver update and installed previous driver and all is back to normal. I will run