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Detailed ASCOM error reporting #143

Closed pkgw closed 5 years ago

pkgw commented 5 years ago

Reported by Aidan Cook, CfA summer intern:

"ASCOM apparently has a relatively strong and specific error reporting system and does a good job of determining the problem with badly connected telescopes. There is no error log in WWT which makes it hard for people to connect their telescopes. I believe that other applications (such as Cartes du Ciel) use an error log directly from ASCOM. This would require investigating the ASCOM error log and implementing it into WWT."

astrojonathan commented 5 years ago

The best practices for WWT is.

Start a ASCOM hub. Setup, connect and debug your telescope and dome connection using the hub.

When your ASCOM connections are stable, connect to the hub from WWT.

This probably should be documented as the ONLY supported way to do it.

ASCOM drivers are so varied in behaviors that we can't test them all with WWT and while most other astronomy software is not as interactive like WWT is, generally almost no ASCOM users use a bare telescope from any ASCOM software because of this.

pkgw commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the insight! I've exported the gist of this conversation onto the forum, where I (belatedly) realized it should have happened in the first place:

https://wwt-forum.org/t/connecting-wwt-to-telescopes-the-importance-of-an-ascom-hub-a-github-recap/66