Hi

I am thinking of getting the Uranus Meteo Sensor as opposed to the Astromi.ch MGBoxV2. Has anyone used the Pegasus Astro Uranus Meteo Sensor which supposedly uses the ASCOM 6 Observing Conditions driver to provide the GPS data to APCC?

Thank you
Bharath

I recently acquired one and was able to connect it to APPC to get environmental data. I couldn’t get GPS input, but haven’t had time to investigate.

Frank

Hi Frank,

Not sure whether the GPS data is available over a USB connection. Per the manual, "GPS port allows you to output full GPS NMEA messages to a serial RS232 protocol device". Not sure whether a RS232 cable is needed. 

Thank you for your input.

Bharath

The site says "The Uranus Meteo sensor is also fully compatible with ASCOM 6,"

You could always email them and ask them which inputs are supported via which driver.

I wrote an ASCOM observing conditions driver for an (unrelated) MeteoBridge weather sensor interface. I don't recall that observing conditions supported location, that's typically the mount I think.

I have both the MGBoxV2 and the Uranus devices. I can confirm that the Uranus works fine as an environmental sensor, but does not show up as a GPS device via a serial port so APCC won't get GPS data as it will for the  MGBoxV2. Overall, the new Uranus Meteo sensor is a great device but a little buggy at present. I have to press the reset button on the unit occassionaly to get it to light up and be recognized after plugging in the USB cable. Once working and returning data, it continues to work, though. I especially like the sky brightness measurements, but it is a little depressing to have another data point to confirm my home location is moving from Bortle 5 to Bortle 6 as light pollution increases.

Here's a look at NINA connected to the Observing Conditions driver. Data is from daytime, so take no note of the Sky Quality and Brightness data!

Frank,

I purchased one as well.  The first version of the Unity Platform issues with the Meteo Uranus (which is the ASCOM driver) did not bring the GPS data across.  Pegasus issued a Unity update within a couple of days that resolved that issue and I see a new version is asking to be installed as I type this.
Clayton

Thanks Clayton. 

So is GPS data now available over the USB port? I asked them about this a few days ago but received no response. 

Has anyone been able to get the GPS data to work?
I have just updated to latest ASCOM and APCC and still no joy.

Anyone?
The manual for APCC Pro stats that inorder to get the GPS to work a virtual port needs to be assigned to it.
So GPS doesn't work with REST API?

Hi Matthew,

The manual for APCC Pro stats that inorder to get the GPS to work a virtual port needs to be assigned to it.
So GPS doesn't work with REST API?

The virtual COM port of the GPS is unrelated to the REST API. The REST API is the communication method for the AP V2 Driver to talk to APCC.

When you install/plug in a GPS device to a computer, a virtual COM port is created. This virtual COM port is unrelated to the virtual COM ports that APCC can create if you are using APCC's virtual ports. The GPS's virtual COM port allows any application, including APCC, to read from it. That's the COM port you must configure in APCC on its GPS tab.

-Ray