![]() ![]() To explain further, I need to see if ASCOM is even installed on a Windows PC when I run a program. Is there a way for a Windows program to detect the presence of an ASCOM installation before any connections are attempted. I tried to post a link but it didn't work twice. Will this help? I asked in the ASCOM forum how to detect an ASCOM install in Windows. Unfortunately that somebody has not volunteered yet. ![]() Yes, indeed, I would welcome an ASCOM solution contributed by somebody. If there is a library to link, there are other examples to see in the code (e.g. You would "just" have to understand the plugin code and extend the code if built on Windows. My little telescope does not need ASCOM, so I have no personal ambition to spend several weekends of my spare time on this, to get a solution that does not more than the existing, and I am very sure users with advanced telescopes would then come with demands of focuser, CCD and filter wheel control (which I could not develop without the experience about how such control program should look like!). Two users have contributed INDI and RTS2, probably because they needed those connections themselves. The original developers of the telescope plugin unfortunately left the project. Most development is driven by personal needs and interests of developers. My decision to buy SN8 was based entirely upon the fact that it supported Having forgotten most of C++ is no excuse either - this can be freshened up. I shall certainly look at Indi again now you have mentioned it but honestly Ascom seems the way most people have already gone.Īs an aside, I have been a user of Stellarium since the mid 2000s and I have just bought Starry Night 8. Ascom, like Stellarium is free and for different telescopes and other devices many independent developers provide enhancements and drivers. Regardless of whose system is the best I truly feel it is better to support common standards. I have heard of Indi but I can tell you that at the Charlotte Amateur Astronomers Club of 200 + members almost everybody who does not have a turnkey scope or a pushto device uses Ascom.Īlmost all the major manufacturers support the platform. I was Googling the web to find an Ascom to Stellarium solution and this showed up in my search results. I am sorry I caused you to reopen a closed thread.
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