How To Connect Your Windows 10/11 Computer to the ASIAIR using BlueStacks 5 (don't use X) running the ASIAIR App
Note: Don't use BlueStacks X
Step 1: Check you computer meets the system requirements to run BlueStacks 5
https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056129211-System-requirements-for-BlueStacks-5
Step 2: Check if Virtualisation is supported and enabled on your computer
https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058371832-How-to-check-if-Virtualization-is-supported-and-or-enabled-on-your-PC-for-BlueStacks-5
Step 3: If the answer from step 2 is that it supported but not enabled - enable it (this does depend on your motherboard and CPU so the process here may not exactly match what you see since you do need to go into your computers BIOS/UEFI)
https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058102252-How-to-enable-Virtualization-VT-on-Windows-10-for-BlueStacks-5
Step 4: Download BlueStacks 5. Here's the link to the offline installer:
https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402611273485-BlueStacks-5-offline-installer
Step 5: When installing BlueStacks 5 follows the steps in the link in Step 4 to install BlueStacks 5 with Android 11.
Step 6: After successfully installed BlueStacks 5 make sure you've allocated the correct number of cores, memory etc to your instance of BlueStacks 5.
https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057205611-How-to-allocate-more-CPU-cores-and-memory-RAM-to-BlueStacks-5
ASIAIR system requirements: https://bbs.zwoastro.com/d/14009-update-on-minimun-system-requirements-for-running-asiair
Step 7: Once you have BlueStacks 5 up and running either install the ASIAIR App from the Play Store (make sure to turn off auto-update for the ASIAIR App via the Play Store) OR download the Android installation file (APK) from the ZWO Website to install the ASIAIR App.
Step 8: Make sure your PC is either connected to the same network as the ASIAIR or to the ASIAIR Wi-Fi.
Step 9: In BlueStacks 5 - start ASIAIR App. You should be able to connect to the ASIAIR.
Troubleshooting help if BlueStacks 5 doesn't open:
https://support.bluestacks.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059644951-Solution-for-when-BlueStacks-5-is-not-opening
