i am using a SiTech controller with SkyFi 3 and skysafari 5 pro.
I have two questions :
1) When I choose the SiTech controller in telescope setup in SkySafari 5 pro,"time and location" turns green and cannot be changed.
Why is this ?
2)After connecting SkyFi 3 to the SiTech controller a few seconds later I get a note "connection failure the telescope is not responding.."
Baud rate is 19200 and connection is created.
The SkyFi 3 works ok with ArgoNavis.
SkyFi 2 works ok on the other hand.
Any idea ?
Thanks
Sam
8 comments
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Bill Tschumy 1. It is tuned ON and disabled because the SiTech controller must be sent that info. You have no choice.
2 If SkyFi 2 works ok, then it is probably not a serial cable or settings problem. I think we had a firmware update that addressed a SiTech problem. You should probably grab the latest firmware and install it on SkyFi 3. Go to http://www.skysafariastronomy.com/skyfi-3-professional-astronomy-telescope-control.html (midway down the page).
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Samuel shachaf Hello bill
I am using version 1.3.3 and Skyfi 3 connects for a few seconds and as soon as I use the handpad or the arrows on the screen,
it disconnects.
Sam
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Bill Tschumy Could you please capture a telescope log file and email it to me at "bill at simcur dot com"? The procedure for doing this is at the bottom of the Help page
Help > Settings Help > Scope Setup Help.
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Samuel shachaf Do you mean help of SkySafari ?
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Bill Tschumy Yes.
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Samuel shachaf OK Bill
I shall try this tomorrow
Thanks
Sam
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Rick Foster This is affecting me as well. Firmware shows SkyFi 1.3.4 as version, using SkySafari 5 Pro iOS, SkySafari 6 Pro iOS on iPhone 7 Plus, using SiTech Controller 1. Exact same behaviour on both versions of SkySafari iOS:
- Turn on everything (power up SkyFi 3, launch the app)
- Ensure Scope Setup is set to SiTech, Alt/Az GoTo or SiTech Alt/Az Push To (makes no diff)
- Connect to Scope (points to north)
- Align to a star close to where scope is pointing
- Push button to move the scope then I see the FOV move with scope for 1 second and WHAMMO, disconnects
- Try reconnect and get immediate connection error until resetting SkyFi 3 unit. Repeat above...
This seems to have been a known problem for quite a while according to this thread. Any word on a fix? I would very much appreciate it. I cannot use Goto or PushTo at all.
Thank you,
Rick
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Bill Tschumy Rick,
We have no way to reproduce this since we don't have a SiTech system in house. Could you send us a scope log file for us to look at? The instructions for doing so are in the Help section Help > Settings Help > Scope Setup Help (near the bottom of the page). You can send it to bill@simcur.com.