Connecting AstroEQ to PHD2

[kman42]

I am trying to set up my EQ5 mount for autoguiding with a guide camera. So far, I've built an AstroEQ box which seems to work perfectly (have loaded a configuration).

I have installed PHD2 and am trying to connect the AstroEQ box as a mount in PHD2. I believe I am looking for the "ASCOM EQ5/6" option, however, it is not listed.

I have installed Ascomplatform64 and Ascompad v209. Below is a screenshot of my choices of mount in PHD2:

Are any of these applicable, if not, how do I get ASCOM EQ5/6 listed there?

[GraemeH]

I have no personal experience with this, but reading a bit on the AstroEQ webpage seems to indicate that you need to install EQMOD as well, and link your AstroEQ controller to that.  PHD2 will then connnect to EQMOD.

[kman42]

From what I could understand, Ascompad IS eqmod...  Is this not the case? 

[upahill]

16 minutes ago, GraemeH said:

I have no personal experience with this, but reading a bit on the AstroEQ webpage seems to indicate that you need to install EQMOD as well, and link your AstroEQ controller to that.  PHD2 will then connnect to EQMOD.

^ This

EQMOD will connect to AstroEQ
PHD2 will connect to EQMOD

Ascompad i believe is just for controlling mounts with a joypad? Could be wrong on that though.

 

[kman42]

When I google EQmod download pages, they all lead to Ascompad?? 

[GraemeH]

4 minutes ago, kman42 said:

From what I could understand, Ascompad IS eqmod...  Is this not the case? 

Ascompad is one of the optional components of EQMOD.  You need to install EQASCOM_V200q_Setup.exe from https://sourceforge.net/projects/eq-mod/files/EQASCOM/

[kman42]

Awesome!  I'll try it tomorrow. Sounds like that's the missing link.