Hello. I am the current maintainer of Stellarium's Telescope Control plug-in.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Reaves, Timothy <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the stellrium list; one of the members there is the > one who wrote the code, so lets see if we can get him involved. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: StellarCAT <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:02 PM > Subject: Re: Stellarium Telescope Support > To: "Reaves, Timothy" <[email protected]> > > > Ok... > > looks very close! > > first off I see no indication of where the scope is pointing - this is > probably my lack of understanding how to use it - but I would think wherever > the CAT is saying its pointed at - your program should immediately go there > with that point at the center of the screen (I do have the item to show the > marker turned on)... I do see you are correctly sending out a CR and the > CAT/AN is correctly sending back the actual position. But the program is not > responding. [Just for verification I am pulling up Megastar to confirm all > is correct - and it is ... and of course it is not up when Stellarium is > up). If Stellarium receives the coordinates successfully, it should display a telescope reticle somewhere. You can search for it in the same way as for any other object (Ctrl+F to open the search box, enter the name of the object). > As for the GOTO... the string is correct - the checksum is incorrect. > > I set the "move" to 01 00 00 and 20 00 00... this is what you sent: > > g01.000_+20.000 and the check sum is a 1C... it should be a 08. I've fixed the checksum calculation. I had missed a XOR operator. :( I've uploaded an updated test installer to the same place: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download Look for: stellarium-bzr4876-servocat-ultima2k-8-win32.exe If it works, please test if it can slew correctly to objects in all 4 quadrants: - RA < 12, Dec > 0 (e.g. Procyon); - RA > 12, Dec > 0 (e.g. Vega); - RA < 12, Dec < 0 (e.g. Sirius); - RA > 12, Dec < 0 (e.g. Fomalhaut). If it doesn't work: please find the file with the telescope log and attach it to your reply. If the telescope number is 1 (if it can be controlled with Ctrl+1), there is a shortcut in Stellarium's folder in the Start menu that will lead you to the log file - "Telescope driver log for slot 1". Regards, Bogdan Marinov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
