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Add Pulse Guiding to LX200 Classic Driver over Serial Port

Open windows2000bug opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

Currently, the Indi driver does not support Pulse Guiding over the RS232 port like ASCOM does for the LX200 Classic telescope mount. I spoke to an ASCOM developer and looked at the code and all they are doing for the classic is telling the scope todo to the following:

Direction = North, East, South, or West (N,E,S,W in command)

  1. Slew to <direction> ( :M<direction># )
  2. delay(<pulseDuration>*10) //delay for the pulse duration in MS
  3. Stop Slewing to ( :Q<direction># )

I have a Hardware work around, though not everyone knows how to solder. I am parsing out the ":Mg" command that is being sent to the scope that the LX200 ignores via an Arduino and some other hardware.

windows2000bug avatar Jun 02 '24 12:06 windows2000bug