Trying to get Astro Tortilla and the Sky6 to play nice

[g__day (Matthew)]

I am having alot of issues trying to get the Sky6 controlling either an SkySensor2000-PC or Telescope Simulator to send Syncs to the Sky6.

It seems the vechilce for doing this - under ASCOM selecting "A Sky Six controlled telescope" is somehow impacting the syncs.

A few screen shots to help folk over the world try and debug what is occurring:

[frolinmod]

Does TheSkyX do the same thing -- or not?

[g__day (Matthew)]

Chris Rowlands documented this week on the Yahoo ASCOM Talks user group that he tested this on TSX.

Chris wrote some VB code and determined from TSX's log that TSX turns off tracking before processing the SYNC and this action seems to cause the SYNC to fail (per the ASCOM definition). Then to make matters worse the cause of the error is mis-reported by the SkyX to be error 250, slew out of range.

Given I haven't upgraded to the SkyX I can't substantiate this and would like it resolved before I move from The Sky6 -> The SkyX.

Chris presumed the Sky6 likely follows what the SkyX does so that logically explains what I am seeing.

In the past > month no one from SB has responded to my query http://www.bisque.com/sc/forums/t/21461.aspx

Tom Bisque had suggested a way this will work by removing the Tpoint model, but I just tired this and it still fails, so with this new information I have posted the new data Chris Rowlands and I have found and we await their suggestions.


Matthew