[Kstars-devel] Boxdoerfer MTS-3 (Indi-?) Support

[Jan Soldan]

Hi,
it is always the best solution if somebody who own some special equipment
writes also INDI driver for it. I think you should do it yourself
if you are programmer as seen from your message. As you probably know,
there is a good reference manual(s) how to write INDI drivers, so
try it and I believe, Jasem will be happy ;-)

Regards,
Jan

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Raphael Errani wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Now I'm using Kstars for some time and, imho it is a great
> sky-chart-program but yet it doesn't support my telescope driver.
> I'm using a MTS-3 by Boxdoerfer, a German company that produces really
> great telescope-controllers.
> Yet, there aren't any official linux-drivers for this controller even if
> the protocol the MTS-3 uses is really easy to understand.
> I've written a little python-program that allows to communicate with the
> MTS-3. (-> http://www.ewetel.net/~errani.schwiedel/mixed/mts.py )
> It would be great if we could design a driver for using kstars to move
> the mount with the MTS-3.
> The communication with the MTS-3 is easy:
> There are a couple of commands you can use with sending a single byte to
> the MTS-3.
> Other commands request a 32bit-integer or a 32-bit float to be loaded
> into the controller's memory before calling the one-byte-command.
> The controller tells you, how many half steps the motor has rotated so
> you can easily check the mount's position.
> It would be great if we could stay in contact and if I could help
> developing a MTS-3-driver for Kstars.
> Please excuse my bad english...
>
> Regards,
> Raphael
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