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AP UTILITY E-NET WIFI POLL odd APCC disconnect
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Joe Zeglinski
Hi Ray,
Just noticed a strange thing when I use the “E-NET
POLL” utility, offered in the CP4 user guide. As soon as I close
this program’s response box, it triggers an APCC shutdown sequence.
Of course, I also then get the pop-up option to abort the triggered
shutdown, but I wondered why this utility needs to disconnect its discovered
(reported) APCC Ethernet & WIFI ports. That’s kind of a bother, though
not critical.
As a postscript to my earlier post, perhaps this would
be a good utility to have more easily accessible from/on the APCC control panel
or menu bar. It is well written by providing not only both the required Ethernet
and WIFI mount IP addresses but also the option to launch the GTOCP4 Main
Webpage and its settings. Slightly quicker since it saves having to launch a
browser just to get this info.
Joe Z.
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Hi Joe,
Just noticed a strange thing when I use the “E-NET POLL” utility, offered in the CP4 user guide. As soon as IThat's the way APCC is designed to work if you have the option to shutdown APCC enabled when the last connection to APCC closes. If you had two ASCOM client applications connected through the driver then shutting down one of them (e.g. the poll utility) would not shut down APCC. Also, if you turn off the option to auto-shutdown then APCC would not shut down either. Best regards, -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): http://www.astro-physics.com/index.htm?products/accessories/software/apcc/apcc Author of PEMPro V3: https://www.ccdware.com Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver: https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver -----Original Message-----
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Joe Zeglinski
Thanks Ray,
That all makes good sense.
I also checked the speed of the CP4 WIFI, about 3 feet
away from the laptop’s external USB antenna, and I see the CP4 reception is 65
Mpbs compared to the 300 Mbps my ASUS USB-AC65 antenna connects to the laptop
with.
The CP4 must be very busy processing servo and APCC control panel tasks, or
its WIFI has a lower priority communicating with the laptop.
Doesn’t matter – the CP4 and APCC combination is a jewel
!
Joe
From: 'Ray
Gralak (Groups)' groups3@... [ap-gto]
Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 6:03 PM
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Subject: RE: [ap-gto] AP UTILITY E-NET WIFI POLL odd APCC
disconnect Hi
Joe, > Just noticed a strange thing when I use the “E-NET POLL” utility, offered in the CP4 user guide. As soon as I > close this program’s response box, it triggers an APCC shutdown sequence. That's the way APCC is designed to work if you have the option to shutdown APCC enabled when the last connection to APCC closes. If you had two ASCOM client applications connected through the driver then shutting down one of them (e.g. the poll utility) would not shut down APCC. Also, if you turn off the option to auto-shutdown then APCC would not shut down either. Best regards, -Ray Gralak Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): http://www.astro-physics.com/index.htm?products/accessories/software/apcc/apcc Author of PEMPro V3: https://www.ccdware.com Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver: https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver
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