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Bad connection with ASCOM to my HEQ5 #1820

Open Astro-Yogi opened 3 years ago

Astro-Yogi commented 3 years ago

Since 2 days, I try to control my HEQ5 with Stellarium 0.21. and EQMOD. I configured everything in the ASCOM-Drivers and I can properly control my HEQ5 by the EQMOD-Panel. When I connect the Telescope (HEQ5) from Stellarium, sometimes it works, sometimes not. When I have my HEQ5 in Home-Position (pointing Northpole), sometimes, when I connect from Stellarium, the Cursor slews to the Northpole in the Map, but sometimes not. The HEQ5 is connected, I can do anything with dte EQMOD Panel, but the cursor in Stellarium is fixed anywhere else. I can disconnect in Stellarium, then the EQMOD-Panel disappers and the cursor in Stellarium disappears too. When I connect the mount again, the cursor appears again, but at the same Position (mostly below horizon).

When I disconnect the cable, connect it again, start everything new then sometimes when I connect the Mount in Stellarium, the EQMOD-Panel appears, the cursor appears and slews instantly to the northpole as it schould. When I then say "disconnect Telescope" and "connect Telescope" the EQMOD-Panel appears, but the Cursor keeps at that silly position below the horizon allthough the EQMOD-Panel works fine.

So it seems, that Stellarium does not read the position from the Telescope anymore. But Why ???

After some hours of trying out , using other Cables, other USB-Ports without success, I installed Cartes du Ciel. And in CdC there is no problem at all. I can do everything what I want, the connection is absolute stable and the Cursor with the actual position is always displayed correctly. So it seems really to be a problem in Stellarium.

Btw: In the meantime, I installed N.I.N.A. Here it seems to be similar problem. When Using Cartes du Ciel, I can read the Position in NINA with no problems. When using Stellarium, NINA tells me, it cannot read the Position from Stellarium, I shouls configure Stellarium that way, it can send position data. (But how ?)

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Jürgen , Hannover

github-actions[bot] commented 1 year ago

This is a good task for the community to participate in the contribution into Stellarium. Who wants to help us?

gzotti commented 1 year ago

How does NINA communicate with Stellarium? I have never used it. Probably you have to enable the RemoteControl plugin for that (and of course, enable it before connecting!).