Antoine1997

If anyone had the same problem:

I spent a month searching this firmware and Skywatcher itself couldn't help me.

Fortunately, after dozens of emails to dozens of telescope distributors, someone could give it to me.

There it is attached.

Also the upload does work without the hand controller.

A bit disappointed that Skywatcher doesn't put it on its website.

MC006_Tracking_V0216.MCF

Hi everyone,

I have trouble finding a motor controller firmware for the Skywatcher Virtuoso. Also, I don't have the hand controller. Do you think that's a problem to upload the firmware ?

Many thanks, Antoine.

Responding in case someone stumbles upon this topic and now that I know much more on this:

Stupid me looked at the wrong protocol.

The protocol I posted earlier allows to communicate with the Synscan. As I don't have a Synscan I only need to drive the motors according to the data sheet attached.

Typical communication protocol is :

REQUEST: ':1F<data>

'                     (String which always begin with ':' and end with a carriage return)

RESPONSE '=<data>

'                     (String which always begin with '=' or '!' in case of an error and end with a carriage return)

Fortunately, it's a scholar project so I can work with Matlab as it is provided. But I'm 99% sure it will indeed also work with open source equivalent such as Scilab or Octave as it is a simple serial communication

skywatcher_motor_controller_command_set.pdf

Hi,

I currently use a Virtuoso Skywatcher without the Synscan hand controller for a project.

I'm communicating from the computer to the mount directly with a serial connection.

The problem is, I accidentally entenred the bootloader mode of the mount, and now it doesn't work anymore. (Can't even control it manually)

I'm guessing I have to update the motor controller firmware but I don't know if I can without the SynScan controller and I don't know if I the Skywatcher Allview firmware is suitable.

Does someone has any experience on this ?

Thanks you very much.

I've made a serial connection with my pc and my Virtuoso and i'm trying to send commands to my mount via Matlab without passing trough a Synscan controller but I'm not sure if it is do-able. I found the communication protocol of the Synscan (attached). Can I use it to send the same commands on a serial port directly connected to my mount ?

SkyWatcher instruction user Manual SynScan Serial Communication Protocol.pdf