Pegasus Astro NYX-101 mount disabled in current AA+ firmware?

w7ay

Walf@ZWO because of serial port of pegasus conflict with the mount

Are you trying to say that in your attempt to exclude other Pegasus Astro products from ASIAIR by singling out the "Pegasus Astro" USB manufacturer string, ZWO had inadvertently also locked out the Pegasus Nyx-101 because the mount's USB port is using the same manufacturer string as the ports of Pegasus' other products?

Why did one of your reps claim that nothing whatsoever was changed between v1.9 and v2.0 in regards to the Pegasus mount?

Chen

Walf@ZWO

w7ay
Hi Chen,
I thing we should not discuss design details publicly，
but please trust me, we are not excluding pegasus intentionally.

rpineau

Hard to believe when Pegasus Astro is the only one impacted even though a lot of other vendor use FTDI usb-serial adapter with the EXACT same VID and PID and the only difference in the USB Descriptor is the manufacturer string .... I'll say nice try but nobody buys it.

Walf@ZWO

Currently it looks like pegasus is the only one.
because the serial port of pegasus box triggered the processing mechanism of ASIAIR,
lead to misjudgment.
we will fix it after Chinese new year!

Sam@ZWO

We would like to officially address the issue of poor connectivity with Pegasus Astro's mount. We recently received user reports that he cannot control his mount when using Pegasus Power Box with the ASIAIR. We found that the Pegasus Power Box has one USB to serial port built-in and this caused confusion to the ASIAIR leading to communication failures to the mount. Our initial bug fix solution to quickly resolve this was to filter out the Pegasus Power Box's serial port when there is a Pegasus serial device connected, while we devised a better long term fix. However, the unintended consequence of that quick fix was the disabling of communications with the new Pegasus mount. This was totally not our intention, nor is there any plan by ZWO to prevent Pegagus Astro mount being used with the ASIAIR. We are genuinely sorry for any inconvenience caused to affected users. We are working to resolve this issue quickly and will intend to release a new version to resolve this after Chinese New Year.
We are very aware that the astronomy community is a small, friendly environment and ZWO remains fully committed to providing support to the user or vendor who uses various mounts with the ASIAIR. But we have limited time and energy and will focus on the equipment we have already supported and try to provide the best user experience. The goal of ASIAIR is to make astrophotography easy and fun, it would never change.

thank you

Obs30

w7ay

Hi Chen,

Thank you - as always ;-) - for the deep review of the different mount configurations.

Basically, i.e. electromechanically speaking, I am very happy with my Avalon M-Uno mount with the RPi4-based StarGO2 controller. Although this controller lacks full support for the ASIAIR (no guiding!), it is a very well built mount, relatively light weight for the allowed payload and does not require any meridian flip.

Having said that, I am still looking for that “perfect mount“ that is ultra-portable, while providing full support for all types of interfaces (ASCOM, INDI, INDIGO, native). The NYX-101 is extremely close to all of this. Your review pointed out a few more aspects that I had not been aware of yet! Thanks! Makes the case for the “Goddess of the Night” even stronger! … and my local astro dealer has introduced the full Pegasus product range after Christmas… so tempting.

I am sure ZWO will fix the communication issue with the NYX-101.

I am still waiting, though, for the full support of the StarGO2 … different issues, different thread.

starlancer

Has there been an update to this? I've had limited success connecting wifi but it will drop after a while.

w7ay

OK folks, the ASIAIR Beta 2.1 (Build 15, firmware 10.70) that just dropped in TestFlight tonight, finally has a release note that says

"- Fixed the problem that Pegasus Astro Mount unable to connect."

Chen

dorothy2846

w7ay is this true??

w7ay

dorothy2846 is this true??

That the line appeared in the Build 15 release notes? Yes.

I don't have an Nyx-101, so I have no way to test the veracity of the statement.

Since the Nyx was working before ASIAIR v2.0, and all it takes is for ZWO to undo a couple of lines of code, the statement is probably true.

Chen

lausso

Any last news about it? Is finally the latest AA version working fine with this mount? I'm considering having one for my 9.25HD..
If so, is everything fully working like guiding, meridian flip, etc?

Obs30

lausso

Although I have no NYX-101 mount, I have been following this thread on CN, where some fellows have made this work.
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/818409-pegasus-astro-nyx-101-harmonic-mount/?p=12548973

Also you might check with Pegasus directly. They reply very quickly, usually.