ASIAIR Astrotrac360 control: Page 2

ASIAIR Astrotrac360 control

Tech@ZWO

pogo
Hi pogo,
Please understand we have our own schedule, which means this will not be as soon as you think, as I said before, I will @you guys when it is ready to help us with the test. Thanks!

pogo

Oh, I do understand that, no problem. Thank you!

pogo

Just for info, with the latest Indi release, there is now supposedly a stable driver for the Astrotrac360. I haven’t tried it yet, but will as soon as I have some time.

pogo

So the guys over at Indi have been working very hard to get this driver to work and yesterday I had about an hour or so to test things out and I am happy to say that it indeed works very well. Goto’s were perfect combined with automatic platesolving, the guiding was good as well. All seemed reliable and stable. The WiFi connection between StellarMate and the mount was not without issues unfortunately, but that has nothing to do with the driver. There are a few guys over at Indilib on the forum there that are doing a lot of testing as well. Good to read for those interested. Now I went over to my ASIAIR pro for the polaralignment and focusing because it is so much easier with the ASIAIR, so hopefully we will soon have this driver available on the ASIAIR, that would be absolutely perfect!

Peter

Tech@ZWO

pogo
Thanks for the update!

pogo

Any updates from your side?

pogo

Hi, I was sort of hoping the new beta software would have the new Astrotrac driver, but I didn’t see it in there. Is there any way that you can give us an approximate timeline?

Thanks,

Peter

pogo

hello Zwo, I have been patiently waiting for Astrotrac 360 support. Would be nice if you could give us a bit more information about implementing the driver in the Asiair software. Could you please share some?

pogo

Hello ZWO,

it has been a while and I was wondering if any progress has been made implementing the Astrotrac 360 driver into the ASIAIR. Thanks, Peter

Tech@ZWO

pogo Hi Pogo, thank you very much for your support, don't have such a plan at the moment.

Suffolk

Oh, thats a bit of a dump! I also have an Astrotrac 360 and just managed to install into my obs. @pogo did you manage to get yours working with the ASIAIR? I read somewhere that it supports INDI drivers and there has been a lot of work done to make a stable driver. Are you running yours with StellarMate or with TheSKY?

pogo

Hi there, that is disappointing, as you indicated earlier that you would look into it. The Indi driver is currently working perfectly. But you do need a StellarMate or similar, which I don’t like as much as Asiair.
with StellarMate it works fine however. I haven’t tried the Sky.

pogo

@tech@zwo#54889 Can you please explain why not? The Indi driver is available. Is it very hard to implement such a thing?

thanks,

Peter

pogo

Hi ZWO, I would like to once again ask you to consider adding the Astrotrac 360 Indi driver to the Asiair if you can please.

PMTeam@ZWO

pogo Hi Peter, just cc msg to the team, will talk about this. Will keep you update.

PMTeam@ZWO

pogo Peter, please contact walf.wu@zwoptical.com. He will help with this.

pogo

Thank you I will do that

Suffolk

@pogo I have seen your posts here and in other forums regarding the AT360 and it looks like you have managed to get the ASIAir to connect and control the mount. Are you able to post a setup routine on how to do this? I have the last AstroTrac 360 that Richard built and I would be happy to collaborate with you and others, if I could help in any way.

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