Select the type of equipment used «Scope Type – Meade ***» and type of the mount, depends of your setup «Mount Type – Equatorial Goto (German)» or «Alt-Az.Scroll down to «Telescope» section and click on «Setup».If device asks for a password during the connection – enter «12345678» and press «OK».Įxample of telescope configuration and management with use of SkySafari software: Then turn on your mobile device Wi-Fi mode and connect to the access point with SSID – «AutoFi». Spend a standard setting procedure recommended by the manufacturer of the telescope, namely enter into the remote location coordinates of observation, the current time and make alignment the telescope at the stars. Connect AutoFi WiFi adapter to RS-232 serial port on the hand controller and to AUX port on the mount (before turning on the power of the telescope).Important: No external power supply or batteries required to power up this bluetooth adapter! HW Virtual Serial Port software creates a TCP-COM bridge allow Windows based astronomical aplications comunicate throught WIFi moduls. To use the adapter on a PC, you must create a TCP-COM port bridge. It works with the SkySafari, Orion StarSeek 4 4.4.4 application for mobile devices. It can be used for a rapid telescope targeting with help of mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets. Compatible with any telescope controlled by AutoStar telescope control system.
I added some shortcuts to the form for my purposes so that I could jump directly to Telescope Settings, jump directly to top menu, jump to the Set Park Position menu etc.AutoFi is a wireless adapter for telescope control systems such as Meade ETX, LX90, LXD. (I’m either using the real keypad or the virtual keypad - there not both being used at the same time, if I need the virtual keypad to ‘catch-up’ with real keypad there is a refresh button). To cutdown communications to/from scope where it wasn’t needed it doesn’t listen for changes to keypad display that happen as a result of keypad presses to the physical handbox in the observatory. The only thing that I haven’t implemented is a means of perform a slew whilst pressing down on left, up, right, down buttons, since this was a bit more tricky to code and I have other means to move the telescope from Planetarium Program or Target Scripting. I mainly use it for accessing and modifying items in the telescope’s settings without being present in the observatory. My virtual handbox is not a standalone product but I can supply vb.net form & code if anyone wants it. I’ve created a virtual handbox for my observatory control program, using MeadeGeneric Handbox Actions with the odd workaround where I had to perform an keypad action that was not originally present to the handbox action (lScrollUp and ScollDown), but I think Colin has now added these to the driver.
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