Hi Dan, When you open up the Device Manager, do you see Com Port 3? If you do see the com port, there is no need to set the baud rate in the USB com port settings as the program sets the baud rate cor

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Hi Jerry: You have thrown a few question that I can answer and one that I can't: For the ones I cannot answer: COM3 shows up immediately under COM Port but I also get the error message "Mount does not

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SUCCESS!!!! I would have never thought of having the Explore Stars WiFi mode operating while being connected to USB-DB9. Will I have to go through this procedure each time I connect the mount? Or can

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Can anyone make any sense of this: 71 Received: *HELLO* 70 ComManager: TCP Response: *HELLO* 69 ComManager: Start Sending TCP Message: ESY! 68 Sending via TCP: ESY! 67 Received: 66 ComManager: Serial

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Dan Once you have the PMC8 set to a mode (serial or wifi) it stays there until you change it. So if you are going to use ascom serial night after night there is no need to do anything. If you were asc

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Hi Wes: This will take some thought as POTH has been a heretofore stumbling block for me . Yes I will attempt. I like the concept of multiple cooectivity I just thought of another issue: Polar Alignme

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Dan. Yes but you have to have all go through POTH. So if CDC is direct to ES ascom driver quit CDC. Then boot poth and go through setup menu of poth to setup ascom driver. It should already be set so

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Wes: It is working in the mode than I prefer. I already have it slewing in Cartes de Ciel. Can I connect other applications concurrently with Cartes de Ciel, like APT or Guide? Dan Kahraman

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Wes: Right off the bat, how do I park the mount now that I am in PMC-8? Dan

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Hi Dan, i had first connect the Stellarium software with the POTH and then i connected ATP with Stellarium. That worked great. I guess you can use the same way. First connect the Planetary software wi

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Hi Wes: so I would connect APT to CDC? (Cartes de Ciel). Staying away from Stellarium for now. Dan

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Park the mount using poth. But here are some points. 1. Do sharpcap pa as per your usual practice 2. Then place mount at home and boot it 3. Boot poth. Connect to mount. Everybody thinks you are at po

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Cannot connect APT (Astrophotography Tool) to the POTH hub Dan

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Hi Wes: I will print out your instructions. POTH has been the biggest challenge I have faced that I have not been able to solve. I tried to connect Guide 8 (Project Pluto) while Carted de Ciel was con

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Dan. Apt absolutely connects through POTH hub to the mount. Suggest you try to find out how in the manual. It is extensive and searchable with hyperlinks. Almost certain I have used it standalone, alt

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Wes I posted my breakthrough with POTH under the hashtag ASCOM and I don't see my message. Looking at the assumption that POTH is an easy solution hasn't been touted out to be hasn't solved my problem

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Problem of not being able to connect to APT resolved. When I would select ES PMC8 ASCOM driver and the the COM port under properties APT would disconnect me! A suggestion was made privately that I con

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Wow! -- I just got both the serial/USB & the wireless ASCOM working with my old Samsung netbook running Win XP sp3. Cartes du Ciel is working and tracking/slewing. Since the Configuration Manager does

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WinXP sp3 was the best. Amazing. Cool. Maybe my old XP laptop can find a new use. Wes.

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Dan: If Run as Administrator is used for one program it has to be used for ALL programs. Otherwise you will get a bunch of wonky error messages.

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