Hi all,

Richard at Astrotrac just announced support for the Astrotrac 360 via The SkyX from software bisque. It would be extremely nice if the ASIAIR would be able to control that mount as well. So I would like to put in a request for a future release. I am not sure what would be involved, but at least this proves that it can be done.

cheers,

Peter

3 months later

So I noticed on the latest Indi library they now have a Astrotrac 360 driver (experimental). Will this be available in the ASIAIR?
Can it even work, as the Astrotrac can only be connected to via WiFi and it does not have a station mode far as I know.

    pogo
    Do you currently own this mount? Because we need someone to test it if there is a chance to support this.

      Yes I own it, and I would be very happy to test it for you.

      Can you let me know what to do to test?

      pogo So I noticed on the latest Indi library they now have a Astrotrac 360 driver (experimental)

      Can you provide more details about this? Then I can convey to our ASIAIR team.

        Can you confirm that you got the link?

          pogo
          Yes, and your request has already been conveyed to our ASIAIR team.

            Great, if you still need me to test it, please let me know!

            Hello @tech@zwo,

            I'm also an owner of the Astrotrack 360 mount, it will be absolutely great if you guys could finally support it!!!
            Please add me as well to the beta, I'll be more than happy to test it.

            Thanks.

            Hi Ziv, great! Hope we will see it soon, that would be awesome!

            Thanks, looking forward to it!

            5 days later

            Today I updated my StellarMate with the latest Indi drivers including the new Astrotrac driver. It took me a while but the good news is, that I got it to work. Here is what I had to do.
            I had to connect the StellarMate to the Astrotrac’s WiFi station. I then connected my IPad to the mount’s WiFi and started the StellarMate app. It recognized the StellarMate on that network. In the app I then had to change the ip settings to that of my Astrotrac and use port 23. That did the trick and I could control things through StellarMate, including goto’s syncs and slewing. I have yet to use it under the stars, but it was promising at least.
            Now I am wondering if you could use an ASIAIR the same way, once the driver becomes available. Can anybody shine some light on that?

            Thanks,

            Peter

            18 days later

            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!

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

              a month later

              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.

              9 days later

              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