LazyFocus under windows 10.

[Xilman]

My old Win 7 box has died. It used lazyfocus.dll to drive the motorized focusser.

The new box has Win 10 Pro and most everything (TheSky, MaximDL, LesveDome, SX cameras, etc) now works after some re-installation and re-configuration.

The focusser steadfastly refuses to be driven by software. The Moonlite PRO ASCOM driver supposedly works as a LazyFocus driver but doesn't. Everything I have tried so far to install the old DLL has failed.

Has anyone managed to get LazyFocus to work under Win 10? If so, how?

Otherwise it looks like new hardware will have to be bought and got working.

Thanks for any help.

Paul

 

 

[Dr_Ju_ju]

can you connect the hard drive from the old computer to your new one ??  if so it may be possible to copy over the missing dll, register it, then see if it works ....

[Xilman]

4 hours ago, Dr_Ju_ju said:

can you connect the hard drive from the old computer to your new one ??  if so it may be possible to copy over the missing dll, register it, then see if it works ....

BTDT, failed miserably. 8-(

A chap at the BAA (britastro.org) has told me of an alternative.  I will try it out and report back.

[syd_malicious]

I have it working. It is definitely the Lazy and not Easy focus you have is it?

I have the relevant files and a registry file to get it all registered. I've addedd them to the post.

I have successfully used the Moonlite driver and also used the Moonlite plugin through SkyX without issue.

 

Paul

 

-LazyFocus.rar

[Xilman]

Thanks. I will try it but it looks very much like a file I already have ...

[Xilman]

Thanks for providing that RAR. It is indeed identical to the one already on the TCS.  Nonetheless, I ran register.bat in an administrator mode CMD; it successfully installed the DLL. The registry entry was already present from an earlier attempt but I verified that it was as specified in the README.txt file.

What is NOT in the README is that one must double-click the LazyFocus.reg file to install extra gubbins in the registry. Once I did that, MaximDL could see the driver!  The SkyX had to be set to use an ASCOM Focus driver and then LazyFocus. Again, it works (though not in TheSky X 64-bit, unsurprisingly).

 

Thank you very much for your assisstance. Much appreciated. AFAIK I can now start doing astronomy again.

 

Pal

 

Edited March 12, 2022 by Xilman
Add note about 64-bit.

[syd_malicious]

Great, glad it's working as mine did work too.

 

Paul