Daylight Savings Time

Bilbao

Does the ASIAIR Plus now accept Daylight Savings Time or should the controlling phone/tablet be set to USA winter time?.

Tech@ZWO

Bilbao All mounts need to close daylight saving time when connect to ASIAIR.

Corsair

Bilbao Your phone or tablet should have your local time in Daylight Savings Time.
The ASIAIR Plus - under Mount Settings - should show the time without Daylight Savings Time.

Larry.Cable

so how exactly should one configure the time zone etc on the AM-5, there is no way to do this in the mount app!

Larry.Cable

there is no apparent mechanism to alter the timezone information on either the hand controller or the mount via the app???

Corsair

Larry.Cable

Mark736

You can test whether or not you need to turn DST off manually for your Android/Apple device running the ASIAIR App.

It would be appear for some they don't but for others they do.

Make sure the Android/Apple device has its location information set as you would normally - time (DST on i.e. set by the network), date, location.

When you first turn on the ASIAIR and connect to it with the ASIAIR App - check the lat, long information. Make sure it is right.

Then, when you get into it, go to the Mount/Telescope settings and check the information under Mount Info. Is the Lat/Long info correct? Is the date correct? Is the time one hour behind your current time (DST Off) or is it the same as y your device (DST On).

Now test what happens when you press "Sync to Mount". Does anything change? Lat, Long, date, time (DST Off/DST On)?

If the time isn't correct after pressing Sync to Mount - i.e. it is showing DST time and not the required non-DST time - then you know you need to run the test again from the start with the Android/Apple device set up with the time set manually and DST turned off (so your Android/Apple device will be on non-DST).

Mark736

Can someone answer Larry's question, please. I am unable to get my AM5 working properly. It slews to the wrong place, the time zone on the AM5 appears to be incorrect. When I select the AMS Hand Controller Management it shows a screen with an error - Failed to read existing file. What does this mean? Consequently I cannot update the firmware either.

Thanks,

Mark.