7/18/2023 0 Comments Connecting eqmod to skychartIt is able to create various virtual devices to transmit/receive data. VSPE is intended to help software engineers and developers to create, and test applications that use serial ports. I use a one of because it is simple, versatile and stable. To communicate with the Arduino ethernet board, a piece of software is required to emulate a virtual serial port. Connection the application to a virtual port So this is basically just a virtual serial over IP bridge, using the standard ASCOM driver and logging on a LCD in between and an exercise how simple SW can be. Nor did I want to write an ASCOM driver to sit between the Arduino and the application software I needed to use. None of the planetarium etc software I wanted to use knows a thing about my Arduino system. All such applications talk to telescopes using the common ASCOM interface. A wide range of astronomy applications are needed for successful imaging. Whilst the Arduino can happily handle all the tasks associated with running the motors and pointing the telescope, in a modern observatory standard applications and driver rule. In this way, the mount control unit can effectively be placed on the local network. Proposed here is an Arduino-based converter that uses a TCP socket to send and receive commands to and from a serial device. Like most instruments in astronomy, my particular unit can be controlled remotely via a serial connection, but doing so would require an USB to Serial Adapter and the control computer to be within, at most, 15m. so finally I went back to good old serial over USB. You do not want care about instability in the field. To user other programs additional different HW and SW components are required, and go wrong. SkyFi lets you control a telescope or other serial device from a computer, iPhone, or iPod with WiFi wireless communication from SkySafari. There are commercial WLAN products out there, but I was not pleased of the stability. Physical the connection should be WLAN using an Arduino and an Ethernet shield. I’m currently developing a prototype connecting a planetary software on a laptop or tablet like “Cartes du Ciel” or Stellarium to my Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT telescope mount. Arduino-based Cartes du Ciel Skywatcher bridge
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