maxmirot Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 If you contact Bob Denny of ACP / DC3.com. He has the SDK for ACL. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 ASA may gave developed proprietary extensions to ACL, but if they haven’t and ASA mounts are compliant with the current ACL standard then that raises a lot of interesting ideas. Unfortunately I don’t have either the time or expertise to explore further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmirot Posted June 27, 2018 Report Share Posted June 27, 2018 ASA may gave developed proprietary extensions to ACL, but if they haven’t and ASA mounts are compliant with the current ACL standard then that raises a lot of interesting ideas. Unfortunately I don’t have either the time or expertise to explore further. I don't have any expertise either. ASA may have preserved the basic driver commands from ACL. Extra commands that are for encoders, direct drive motor start up and tuning, loading pointing models and MLPT are going to be proprietary. It might be a clue if you can separate out the basics when looking at the USB traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmirot Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 Lukas, Any progress? Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepower Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Hi Max, not really, the driver is sending a shitload of data through the serial line, mostly status updates coming from the mount. I currently have no time to dig into this further. ACL might be an interesting way to go, and there seems to be an ASCOM driver already there: https://www.ascom-standards.org/Downloads/ScopeDrivers.htm Maybe somebody could give it a try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkS Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Is this forum the appropriate place to be discussing reverse engineering of Autoslew????? Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Why not? This part of the forum is only accessible to beta testers who have already bought ASA mounts. Any successful reverse engineering will not cost ASA anything because they do not seem to be developing the software themselves. If ASA object I am sure they will comment. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkS Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Hi George, This thread is available to all - not just beta testers. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeCarey Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Ah, last time I was logged off I thought I could not see it. Perhaps the conversation can move? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmirot Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 Someone with technical ability would really have to spend a lot of time, I don't think we have a volunteer yet so not to worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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