Starbook pulse guiding

[knro]

INDI Starbook driver does not currently support guiding as reported in the INDI forum thread PHD2 can't manage to connect the mount

Is it possible to add this feature to the driver @not7cd ?

[not7cd]

I could try reproducing this error. But I won't be able to contribute anything meaningful until July.

If I understand:

Pulse guiding is an idea originally suggested by Roland Christen (founder of Astro-Physics) and implemented in this application. It works by sending precisely timed serial commands that make the mount move faster in RA and/or Dec for a short period (hence "pulses").

Then on the Starbook, it could be hard to achieve, because the driver uses quite limited HTTP API.

I was thinking about circumventing Starbook altogether and hooking directly into a serial port. But this will demand a lot of rev-eng.

[knro]

one way would be to set it to GUIDE speed and then use regular NSEW commands with specific duration, would that work?

[not7cd]

I guess, but I think it will be quite wonky in operation. But let the evidence here pile up. And I can help with testing later since my access to my observatory is limited due to the circumstances.

[knro]

Following up a year after this! I guess this is still not supported?