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Add Pulse Guiding to LX200 Classic Driver over Serial Port #2070

Open windows2000bug opened 1 month ago

windows2000bug commented 1 month ago

Currently, the Indi driver does not support Pulse Guiding over the RS232 port like ASCOM does for the LX200 Classic telescope mount. I spoke to an ASCOM developer and looked at the code and all they are doing for the classic is telling the scope todo to the following:

Direction = North, East, South, or West (N,E,S,W in command) 1) Slew to \<direction> ( :M\<direction># ) 2) delay(\<pulseDuration>*10) //delay for the pulse duration in MS 3) Stop Slewing to ( :Q\<direction># )

I have a Hardware work around, though not everyone knows how to solder. I am parsing out the ":Mg" command that is being sent to the scope that the LX200 ignores via an Arduino and some other hardware.

knro commented 2 weeks ago

This is what manual pulse guiding is. Not sure how reliable this is. Did you implement it in your branch and tested it out with guiding?