DaveJFT

Philip,

I've just read Stev74's reply and it seems I may have gone off in the wrong direction with my replies. I thought you were looking to connect your mount to your laptop - sorry!

Dave

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Hi Phillip,

The issue was the same with all the adapters I tried - the laptop just wouldn't see the mount. I didn't know what was causing the problem to start with and it was only when a friend from my local stargazing group (Pig on SGL) came round with his kit that I started to get to the bottom of the problem. In the beginning I thought it might be a problem with my craptop, a very old 2005 Acer Ferrari, but his new laptop wouldn't work either. There just seems to be a compatibility issue with the chipsets in the adapters and the SLT mount. His Nexstar worked fine with his kit but mine wouldn't play at all. Once I followed the recommendations of others and bought the Tripp Lite adapter everything fired up straight away and I had my scope being guided by Stellarium.

Try your USB-Serial adapter before ordering an alternative as it might well work for you considering yours uses Skywatcher's Synscan software but if it doesn't work then I'd recommend the Tripp Lite and hopefully you won't go through the weeks of pain and trips to the post office that I did.

Dave

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Hi guys,

I had one of these which i got off ebay many years ago, can i use THIS? or must i use the suggested item from other post?

Hi budgierless, I thought you were sorted with your bluetooth adapter? Don't you just connect your BT adaptor to your mount with the cable? This would only be of any use with a laptop. I see from an earlier post that you have a Skywatcher 130p(?) which I guess is on their Synscan GOTO mount. I believe this mount is the same as Celetron's SLT mount which is what my 130p is on. I had huge difficulty finding a compatible USB-serial adapter for that mount. In the end only the Tripp Lite adapter would work for me - but that was just my experience.

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thanks for the help guys, I've tried what you have posted but still wont work with Bluetooth, I think it maybe my hand controller not being compatible, I'm using a mini tower pro with a 8401 HC which has usb connection on it. so I've posted on the yahoo group to see if this is the case.

it works ok with my home wireless network, just need it to work away from home. I've just ordered a self powered portable mini wifi router and hopefully it will see skyfi network, and if that doesn't work i'll have to dig a bit deeper into my pocket and get a ipad or try to put a custom rom on my Nexus 7 which I've never done before. problem is Android are fetching out 4.4 kitkat os for android shortly and might have to wait to see if ad hoc is enabled in the the os.....cheers john

Hi Johnno,

Can Android 4.4 now connect to SkyFi's Ad-Hoc WiFi network?

Cheers!

Dave