I’ve posted a new version of the Celestron ASCOM driver to the files area of the ASCOM-Talk group. This should handle the new mounts, in particular recognising the CGX and CGXL mounts as GEMs and managing pier flips.
If you have one of these then please try this and let me know how it goes. If there are problems I will require logs. These are absolutely essential.
Thanks Chris. Really appreciate you getting this out pdq. Installed without a problem. Will give you feedback when the clouds go away (in a week or so by the looks of things).
Nice to hear it’s OK so far. Logs from the Celestron driver would be nice, if only to confirm that it’s recognising the new mounts correctly. No problem with waiting until you have clear skies.
Just to confirm, if you are using a NexStar+ HC you can set the pointing state but if you are using a StarSense HC you can’t. Both can read the pointing state, which SGP need to be able to do flips. The difference is that with StarSense you can only do a pier flip after the mount has crossed the meridian.
Good news,
I finally got the chance to ‘field test’ the new drivers and everything works fine.
The meridian flip occurred right on cue, it slewed, and successfully solved and centered the target and carried on.
Also I found the mount in the Park position I had assigned it this morning. It was not doing that before.
Thanks for the feedback, I’ve asked for the new driver to be put on the ASCOM downloads, don’t know how long that will take.
In the meantime yes, share it or direct them to the ASCOM-Talk Files area.
Hi I can’t find the file on ascom-talks any chance you could put a link to the celestron driver update? I have the current ascom drivers from the ascom web site, but can’t auto flip with my CGX
Thank you Chris I’ve downloaded that that’s the driver I’ve been using since I got my CGX2 years ago. It’s still won’t do an automatic Mouradian flip. Have used it with Cartes du ciel CPIW And now stellarium. I like connecting with cpiw and WiFi Because let us we use the hand control while centering objects
I just can’t seem to figure out how to get the automatic flip going. It works on my sky watcher mounts
Thanks
Don