Chris, I'd be happy to be a beta tester. I do have a serial-usb cable and driver that seems to work with my Vista machine. I was able to control the scope with TheSky6 via the cable connection. When I tried it with CdC, the program connected and I could see the scope ra/dec. When I moved the scope with its hand controller, the program noted the movement. However, it would not perform any GoTos so it seems it is receiving information from the scope but may not be able to talk to it. When I tried a GoTo, an error message said the action couldn't be performed because the program was not tracking the scope. This occurred whether the "Track" button appeared black or red. Hope this helps. I look forward to working with you. Steve
--- In [email protected], Chris Rowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > I write the ASCOM driver for the Celestron scopes. > > You seem to be doing everything correctly. I've seen this before where > a serial connection works with other applications but not with the ASCOM > driver. The impression I get is that it is something to do with the VB > serial driver that ASCOM uses. > > So I've been working on using a different serial driver with the > Celestron driver and I'm hoping to get this out fairly soon, in a few > days, once I've got the installation and registering working. Would you > be interested in a beta test version? > > If you have a real cable that you can use to confirm things are working > with that it would help but with the lack of serial ports on modern > laptops I can see that may be difficult. > > Chris >
