Carinasoft have updated their website with the following that may allow other desktop programs to use SkyFi - but not SMP on iPhone:
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Using SkyFi with Other Software
SkyFi lets you communicate with your telescope over a wireless TCP/IP connection. Both our Voyager desktop software and our SkyVoyager iPhone app are designed to do just that.
However, other astronomy programs like The Sky and Starry Night expect to communicate with a telescope directly over a serial port. To make SkyFi work with those programs, you'll need a virtual serial port driver - a piece of software that presents SkyFi's wireless TCP port to other programs as if it were a real serial port.
A number of third-party virtual serial port drivers are available, and many of them are free. Here are a few that we've successfully tested with SkyFi; all of these run on Windows:
HW VSP3 - our favorite! Works on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Reasonably straightforward to install and configure.
com0com - an open-source virtual serial port driver for Windows. Also free, but not nearly as easy to set up as HW VSP3. You need to install and configure both the com0com and com2tcp pieces.
COM2TCP - $39 with a 45-day free trial, by AstroGeeks. Has the simplest user interface of any virtual serial port solution we've tried, but did not install correctly on WIndows 7 the first time. After some support from the developer, we were able to use it successfully.
Carina Software is developing its own virtual serial port drivers for Mac and Windows. In the meantime, you are free to use any of the solutions listed above. Please note that Carina Software does not provide support for third-party software such as The Sky, Starry Night, or the other programs listed above.
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