Rob,
There is a yahoo group worth looking at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/h...tions/messages
It's the Home Dome users group, Digital Dome Works driving their domes. Good place to ask questions about the Technical Innovations Digital Dome Works.
I have the 6 foot version Home Dome with Digital Dome Works. Everything is configured to use ASCOM via POTH, including DDW. I find that I have to start the DDW program first, it then connects to ASCOM POTH, and at this point, I can fire up everything else. The weather data is available in DDW, plus dome and shutter in the graphic. I have the dome slaved to my mount (AP900) in ASCOM. So where every the mount points, the dome follows. No dome add-on in theskyX for me (I really don’t want another one of their annual subscriptions for a developing addon).
With ASCOM - you can share the Comm ports via POTH. Otherwise, once DDW grabs it, it is not available for other programs. Having DDW connect via POTH allows other programs to access the same Comm port.
I have since stop using DDW program, the weather data is available via the AAG Cloud sensor program anyway. I only the DDW ASCOM plugin. The AAG CloudSensor just triggers the close and park the dome on RAIN or heavy cloud via jumper block in the dome control box. Really. that’s all I am after. If it looks funky, please close the dome for the night. Just a fail safe to protect stuff that doesn't thrive in wet conditions.
Terry