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NINA Won''t Park in User Defined Alt Az with Counterweight Up and NINA Controls What the SKY Sees as a Parked Scope, but it is not parked.

Emilio J. Robau, P.E.
 

I have noticed a couple of things in regards to the subject item and NINA in general.   It seems that NINA won't park in the user defined alt-az which is what I use to park the mount at the end of a session so my roof can roll back with 0.5 inches to spare of clearance.  I can barely fit my scope.


Anyways, for some reason NINA won't park there.  The counterweight is up, which I don't know if it matters or not.  It will park at any of the standard park location, park 3 and park 4 for sure, but for some reason it does not like my user defined location.

In addition I have noticed that from time to time, when I start things up the SKY X claims that the scope is parked even though it is not parked according to APCC.   I finally figured out that if I went into NINA and unparked it there, that fixed the issue.  Something strange going on with NINA and the AP2 driver or something.

Anyways, anyone else have this issue?

I am going to read up on the Home position to see if getting this assigned is going to help.  I don't use Home yet.  There is so much to know about all the different software that it takes time to learn all the functionality, not only with APCC but with all of the imaging software.   I have only been at this for years, but will endevor to keep learning things.

Any comment would be helpful.  Not a tragic issue, but it is somewhat bothersome.
Linwood Ferguson
 

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 12:07 PM, Emilio J. Robau, P.E. wrote:
I have noticed a couple of things in regards to the subject item and NINA in general.   It seems that NINA won't park in the user defined alt-az which is what I use to park the mount at the end of a session so my roof can roll back with 0.5 inches to spare of clearance.  I can barely fit my scope.

The ASCOM interface does not permit NINA to tell it where to park, it simply says "Park", there is quite literally not a parameter to the command.  It does permit you to define the park position which sends a command to ASCOM to save a park position (I'd recommend not, use AP's software to set it). 

Where it parks is up to the AP software.  In the prior version it was controlled as indicated in the below.  I haven't installed the new version yet, not sure how/if it changed.  If this has somehow all changed hopefully someone will jump in with an update. 

Linwood
Mike Dodd
 

On 1/15/2023 12:25 PM, ap@... wrote:


Where it parks is up to the AP software.  In the prior version it was controlled as indicated in the [image] below.
Yes, the AP ASCOM driver allows you to specify where to park the mount. One of the options in the "Park To" field is a specific azimuth/elevation.

I use the driver's direction buttons to move my AP1200 to az=90, el=0, then select that option.

These coordinates are stored, so every Park command issued by any app (SkyX, ACP, etc.) slews the mount there and parks it. It works perfectly.

The "Unpark From Last Parked" option shown in the image is the correct choice so the mount knows where it is.

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Mike

Mike Dodd
Louisa County, Virginia USA
http://astronomy.mdodd.com
Patrick Sparkman
 

I may be mistaken, but with the latest APCC and ASCOM V2 updates, the park location is now set by APCC and not the ASCOM setting.
Mike Dodd
 

On 1/15/2023 7:16 PM, Patrick Sparkman via groups.io wrote:
I may be mistaken, but with the latest APCC and ASCOM V2 updates, the park location is now set by APCC and not the ASCOM setting.
I don't have APCC, so I can't speak to that. I do know for a fact that the latest AP ASCOM driver GUI has the Park options, so for sure you can set the Park parameters there.

--- Mike
Brian Valente
 


1. If you are using ASCOM standalone, Park is defined and handled in the ASCOM

2. If you are using the latest ASCOM and APCC (5.60.03 or later, and APCC 1.9.6.3) Park is defined and handled in APCC. 


If you are using APCC and ASCOM it's important that the latest versions are both updated and used together. 

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 4:39 PM Mike Dodd <mike@...> wrote:
On 1/15/2023 7:16 PM, Patrick Sparkman via groups.io wrote:
> I may be mistaken, but with the latest APCC and ASCOM V2 updates, the
> park location is now set by APCC and not the ASCOM setting.

I don't have APCC, so I can't speak to that. I do know for a fact that
the latest AP ASCOM driver GUI has the Park options, so for sure you can
set the Park parameters there.

--- Mike









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