[Barrykgerdes]

Hi

Controlling a telescope from Stellarium needs a few pre-requisites. Have you done them all.

Firstly Stellaium 0.10.0 will not control the telescope you will need to use version 0.9.1

Next the config.ini file needs to be edited to activate the controls

[astro]
flag_light_travel_time = true
flag_telescope_name = true
flag_telescopes = true

[telescopes]
1 = My_LX200_telescope:TCP:localhost:10 000:500000
2 = My_ETX70_telescope:TCP:localhost:10 001:1500000
3 = My_Dummy_telescope:TCP:localhost:10 002:50000

Substitute the "My_LX200_telescope" with whatever name you like

Next you need to run your telescope program and see that it is polling the telescope and returning the coords sequentially.

If you are using the standard LX200 driver it will write all this in a DOS window. I don't know what the other drivers show but when you run them the output needs to be directed to the port that Stellarium is listening on. A typical command run at the DOS prompt would be:

telescopeserverLX200.exe 10000 com1:

The port can be any available one and the com port whatever number you can use. You can even direct the output to a file.

Run the dummy telescope program. That will work independant of Ascom.
telescopeserverDummy.exe 10002.

Use ctrl 3 with the above config.ini entries. If that does not work the problem is in the dummy telescope program or Stellarium itself.

That should be all there is to it

Barry