Would love to see some form of dome control added in the future, as this would be a really useful feature. Especially now that plan has been added.

Thanks ZWO. Keep up the cool work 😀

    6 days later
    7 months later

    Any updates on this? I have a NexDome and must leave my beloved ASI-Air+ behind, it cannot control my dome :-(

    5 months later

    I also have a NexDome and I would be stoked to be able to use the ASIAIR PLUS to control my dome and fully automated sessions. This is a must-have these days for small dome owners 🙂 You will make a lot of happy customers and NexDome owners 🙂

    5 days later

    I'm working on a new roll off roof observatory and what I realised is that I can use the automatic shutting down of the ASIAIR PRO at the end of an Autorun or Plan mode to remove the 12VDC from any of the power outlets. I tested this the other day and indeed the power shuts down cleanly at the end of a session. So I have an Arduino programmed to detect the shut down via an interrupt, which will then shut my roll off roof at the end of the night. Still work in progress, but I am confident it should basically work.

    This got me thinking that the ASIAIR PRO has four 12VDC outlets that are already under hardware control of the ASIAIR PRO. So ZWO, why not make use of these in Plan mode as definable switches that can go High or Low to activate external equipment? Should be reasonably simple, just software.

    My suggestion would be to start with two of the 12VDC ports. One can activate after the mount homing position to operate a light panel for flats (definable High or Low). Following this a definable time delay, then trigger the auto flats routine to run. The second will activate after the auto flats is finished to close the roof (definable High or Low). Lastly the ASIAIR PRO will shut down.

    There's a challenge for you... 😀

    p.s Still loving all my ZWO gear. It just works 😄

      9 months later

      Milly2
      Hi I'm wordering if got any further with your idea of using asiair power to close the roof? I think your idea is good but, in my case, the asiair didn't support Park.

      I hope you made progress

      Cheers

      Clear Skies

          Fly8p0 We are considering the Park function in the ASIAIR, but don't have a date yet.

              Tech@ZWO
              I’m happy you are considering the park function.

              I hope we will see it not to long. I’m planning to automate my observatory this summer. Would nice to have this new functionality.

              No pressure🙂

              Clear Skies

                Tech@ZWO

                Are you looking at the ability of the ASIAir to communicate or get instructions from rain/cloud devices to instruct domes to close when it rains?

                I know it may be too much to ask but it's good to ask.

                  2 months later

                  Any timeline when nexdome control (at least rotation control) could be added to AAP? Don’t want to start learning NINA please !

                    Felisep Currently do not have such a plan, I passed to ASIAIR team to see if they will consider this in the future.

                    Thank you for your support.

                        2 months later

                        Tech@ZWO

                        Most of my fellow NexDome owners already moved away from ASIAIR. To start with add very basic shutter open/close and dome sync feature! We love ASIAIR, please add as soon as you can!

                          8 months later

                          Add me to the list of Nexdome users forced to abandon ASIAIR for Nina, and SharpCap Pro. I'm guessing ZWO will need a more robust computer to slave the dome to the mount, and control the shutter. Currently I'm using Ascom Device Hub if this could possibly be used with ASIAIR it would be a dream, if this was all merged into ASIAIR or a new ZWO computer I would answer a thousand prayers. (at the lest stop the cursing) NEAF 2024 PLEASE

                            2 months later

                            How about now? I was thinking of buying one, but if it's soooo far behind the curve of every other option, why bother buying one? ESP with the fact it's all limited to other ZWO equipment, can't do most of what others can, is a raspberry pi, with ripped off open source code being illegally used (open source isn't allowed to be sold without having the GPL, so release the code for us and everyone will make what ever plugins or modifications you refuse to do?

                            khoevel1750 You won't get that from ZWO, unless they sell their own GPL ripped off version lol

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