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Hi Zuts,
Sorry I missed your original post.
I have tried exactly what you are trying, using PolarAlignMax, and using TheSky/CCDSoft.
I am having trouble remembering how far I got with it, I'm pretty sure I did have success with it but am having trouble remembering the details.
FocusMax cannot act as a ASCOM Hub, but POTH can, which comes with ASCOM. You should connect to your telescope using POTH then connect the rest.
You will need to get TheSky running through POTH also. That can be done using instructions on the ASCOM site (if you can't find them, let me know and I'll dig them out). The ASCOM interface to TheSky is not ideal. I found it was CPU intensive and didn't work anywhere near as nicely as the "raw" TheSky interface. There's been discussions on that here in the past, perhaps searh "TheSky and ASCOM in the forum.
Once you get POTH running with TheSky and PolarAlignMax going through it, you should be able to get things hapenning right. But as I said before, I can't remember exactly why I didn't continue using PolarAlignMax. It might have simply been the clunky TheSky/ASCOM interface. I also don't adjust my alignment often being a pemanent setup.
I agree that FocusMax is excellent and works nicely. Life saver really, especially with automation, it's just great.
PM me if you have problems and want more info, I'm not getting back to the forums as much right now.
Roger.
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