Corsair Just a clarification - how do people access the previous versions of the ASIAIR App for their Apple devices if they either haven't been doing this and are currently on 2.2.2 (because they updated manually or didn't turn off auto updates and automatically updated) or they've just bought the ASIAIR so 2.2.2 is the first version they're using.
They can't ; that is why I mentioned "the version of the app that you had used earlier" or something like that, and the need to save the copies of the ASIAIR app every time a stable version comes out.
One can of course find a friend who has a copy of the older ASIAIR app on their Mac, but I believe that will violate ZWO's EULA. We don't want to infringe on ZWO's intellectual property, even though they routinely infringe on the intellectual property rights of others in the Open Source community.
It might be borderline legal (you will need to ask an IP lawyer, I am just a retired engineer with a couple of dozen patents) to hand your iPad to a friend who has been iMazing the older ASIAIR apps, and let the friend download the older version of the app to the iPad with you allowing the iPad to trust his/her Mac.
they've just bought the ASIAIR so 2.2.2 is the first version they're using.
Has ZWO been shipping ASIAIR with the latest firmware? In the past, they just send the ASIAIR with some ancient firmware in the eMMC, and assume that the user gets to update it themselves when they connect the ASIAIR device to the ASIAIR app for the first time.
All that being said, it is very odd that I have not had any problem with ASIAIR v2.2.2 (or the betas before it) that others seem to have. I have used auto meridian flips, auto focus, plate solving etc, and they all work consistently with a pretty old ASIAIR "Plus" (the version that used the real Raspberry Pi processor) on both iOS and macos. Granted, I have not need to do any polar alignment (my tripier is semi-permanently mountd, and I only redo polar alignment once a year or so, and my OTAs all have moderately corrected tilts -- bad backfocus and tilts will cause auto focus on ASIAIR to fail because of the constant-exposure value that it uses during autofocusing). And I do not use WiFi. Perhaps the ASIAIR knows that I can switch anytime to INDIGO Sky or StellarMate, and is behaving itself :-).
I also don't trust the kind of autoguiding numbers that I am getting from the recent ASIAIR releases. I often get smaller than 0.2" total RMS on a strain wave gear mount, which should be close to impossible without a premium worm geared mount.
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