Hi all, We had a break in the rain and snow here in the pacific northwet, so it was time for my yearly attempt at objects in Orion. Naturally, the moon was full, but that is just plain not allowed to

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Hi Bob, Thanks for the prompt reply. I looked into Regedit and it indeed gives 5.0 for the platform Version on the second line. There are two more lines: (Default) REG SZ (Value not

Bob, Thanks for the reply, but I'm good. I'm on 4.1 and not trying to install anything from ASCOM web site - I got my 4.1.25 driver from Ray's site last month (and only did so to get PEMPro v2

ancient.sull wrote: Very old news, and no longer true. All drivers listed on the new ASCOM site come with their own installers that do everything for you. No. You never have to even look into the

hewholooks wrote: Do not do this now. The file is now a real installer. Double-click it to install. This should only happen to drivers that have never been used. If a driver existed from the old 4.1

Chris Curran wrote: Yes, my mistake. I am sorry! I dod SO MUCH over the last couple of weeks to get the whole new ASCOM site and Platform going... I just missed this. I thought the file Ajai sent was

Daniel Verschatse: If you know how, look in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ASCOM In the right hand pane of RegEdit, look for the PlatformVersion. Is it 5.0? Is should be after

I received the same message - ________________________________ From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...] On Behalf Of Daniel Verschatse Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:41

Hi Bob, When trying to install the new installer AstroPhysics(4.1.25)Setup.exe (426kb) on my Ascom 4.1, I got an error message saying "The ASCOM Platform 5 is required for this driver". So, with some

Ok, thanks Bob! -Ray

Me: Done. The download from the ASCOM Download Center now consists of a proper installer for the driver, instead of the driver EXE itself. It will do everything needed (including the DCOM stuff needed

install the platform's Oh, geeze, I forgot that the package Ajai gave me was just the driver executable. I'll make up a proper installer for this driver now and post when I have updated it on the

Until I have released the new AP ASCOM driver you will need to install the ASCOM 4.1 platform first, then copy the 4.1.25 AP driver over the platform's version. You can get the 4.1 platform, old AP

Just a followup on this theory of mine. From another group, Bob Denny of the ASCOM initiative confirmed the need to go into the "Properties" menu the first time a new driver is used - he

wrote: driver. official The issue is that an ASCOM driver needs to be installed in order to set various registry settings etc. All the other downloadable drivers are really setup executables which

I tried that as well when I couldn't get the drivers to activate in ASCOM v5, and it didn't work for me. Very strange. Could be just my situation, but the ONLY way the drivers activated for me

With a different mount (Takahashi Temma) and ASCOM 4 you had to double click on the driver, "Temma.exe" When double clicked the "Not a windows program, cannot be run without ASCOM" message would pop

I believe that you can simply remove the old AP driver from the Common Files/ASCOM/Telescope folder and replace it with the new one by dragging it into the folder. At least it worked when I

Well, that is confusing... First off, I downloaded a zip 'APDriver-4-1-25.zip' and it contains 'AstroPhysicsDriver.exe'. To use that driver, you do not run the file - you simply copy it to