My NEQ6 Pro (EQ6 SynScan) arrived today. I spent the entire evening playing with it and setting up the polar scope..

The controller is whizzy and easy to use.. however at the back of the manual are the RS232 protocol commands :D (much joy and merriment!)

Also, it seems SW wish users to interface through the SynScan using PC Direct mode as they supply an RS232 cable for the SynScan that will plug into a USB<->RS232 cable. It seems this doesn't have the 12V lines that the mount D9 connector has.

I just so happen to have an FTDI USB<->D9 RS232 that will connect to the RJ11 serial socket on the controller as well as the EQDIR (Prolific chip) adaptor box.

Currently have the EQ6 connected via FTDI to have a play using the ATIK test code. Only thing different is that the handset PC-Direct mode uses 9600 with no parity or stop bits (different to the ATIK which uses the bitbang mode of the FTDI to get decent transfer rates - although overkill for a mount!).

Although it's possible to play further, my current priority is to finish the refactoring. Once that's done then I can play with additional transports (ie the prolific) and additional vendor plugins (ie the EQ6).

Assuming there's not a break in the cloud :p