[g__day (Matthew)]

I've noticed after almost 60 posts on the Bisque boards over the year - if my question has nothing involving ASCOm - I get correct answers back in hours. If the posts involve ASCOM in anyway - answers seem to be very begrudgingly given (my subjective interpretation of their attitudes) and very slowly responded (factual - I've had un-responded posts re Telescope API pitfalls for days now on the bisque support boards. No response whatsoever - not even we'll look into it - which leaves a sour taste in my mouth after I spend hundreds on multiple products from them.

The X2 was written for the Sky X - don't know if it would work at all for Sky 6 - but 1) I doubt it and 2) it won't even install unless it sees the Sky X is already there.

Still I've asked my questions to Bisque, ASCOm boards and posted my query on Rob Denny's X2 thread - maybe something will come of it!

Update from the ASCOM group:

"The telescope API as designed by Bisque is very simple, and only exposes the most basic of functions. So there's no way from within TheSky to do many things... although many of the features you are interested in are available in individual ASCOM drivers (many ASCOM telescope drivers are richer than the native TheSky drivers for the same scopes)."

and

"The TeleAPI interface was defined by Software Bisque (it's a DLL that TheSky communicates with). Basically, it's a driver stub. Anybody with the interface spec can write their own implementation for a specific device. Bob Denny wrote a version that connects to ASCOM, but he was limited in the features he could implement to those which the interface defines- which isn't very many.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson"