Probably been asked loads of times and I have looked, and read several articles re setting-up, but am still stuck.
I've installed the ASCOM platform 6.6SP2 on my laptop (Win 10); along with EQMod/EQASCOM from the Sourceforge site; plus Carte du Ciel. I have a purchased EQMod cable running from a USB port in the laptop to the mount (HEQ5 Pro), linking into the socket where the SynScan handset normally goes. At this point I'm assuming all is correct in terms of cable connection.
However I am confused about drivers. I apparently need a driver for the main ASCOM platform. On reading the lists of scope drivers at its website, I see one for the Skywatcher mounts called Green Swamp; but then further down is EQMod/EQASCOM. So, is it one or the other, or both that is/are needed?
At the moment I can get Carte du Ciel configured to call up the EQASCOM control panel with the up/down/left/right buttons, but when pressing "connect", nothing happens....just a brief flash of another control panel and then that disappears.
The COM ports connection thing surely isn't relevant with a USB connection....am I missing some hardware? or am I still missing a driver? If I go to Windows Device manager (with the eqmod cable still attached to scope-mount), I see "other devices"--FT232R USB UART. It states there is no driver for the device, therefore I'm assuming (rightly or wrongly) that this is an ASCOM driver that's required.
I'm sure it's almost there, but not quite. Can someone shed some light on the driver issues?