Corpze Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 I have read a bit of the ASCOM Alpaca work that is beeing done, and it looks promising.The basic idea is that the regular ASCOM platform will be able to talk via an API which is called ASCOM Alpaca, and uses network (wifi, ethernet etc.) interface and is not bound to a specific OS, it will talk cross-platform via the API. (iOS, android, OSX, linux, windows)The million dollar question is - will ASA jump on this train or stand on the platform waving the train goodbye? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristerS Posted May 27, 2022 Report Share Posted May 27, 2022 They are on the train accordingly to Dr. Keller its coming a new AS version soon, will se Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepskyman Posted March 14, 2023 Report Share Posted March 14, 2023 (edited) Hi there as per my recent post, I have been experimenting with ASCOM remote which in theory allows control of Autoslew using the Alpaca protocol, unfortunately although ASCOM Remote can talk to the AS ASCOM driver, it falls over due to what appear to be non-conformances with the AstroOptik driver. I jumped on the opportunity of Alpaca because it would allow me to drop Stellarium in favour of my preferred planetarium software SkySafari. Kind Regards Paul. Edited March 14, 2023 by deepskyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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