Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Driver ASCOM for telescope

 Because of Raspberry controller is able to manage different devices more Ascom driver are needed, one for each device. Now the first driver is developed using Microsoft Visual Studio, thanks to development tools supplied by Ascom Platform. Conformance checker was used to verify and validate it. Conformance document was generated.

Communication between driver and Raspberry is done via TCP/IP, Each driver uses its own port. Raspberry implement a UDP broadcast communication used to make know its IP address to the driver, in this way IP address can be discovered during the driver setup.


 These are the supported features:

  • Alignment: Polar
  • Sync and async target and coordinate Slewing
  • Target and coordinate Sync
  • Tracking: Sireal with the possibility set right ascension and declination rate
  • Move axis support
  • Topocentric equatorial system
  • Parking on local meridian at declination 0
  • Pulse guide support
  • Aperture area and diameter and focal length are from Raspberry controller where can be configured.
  • Observatory site location is from Raspberry controller where can be configured.

In the resource you can find driver setup and conformance document




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