APT and AZ GTI connection issues.

[nickp87]

Hi all.

Is there anyone on the forum using a az gti and apt ( astrophotography tool )?

It uses GS server/ascom to connect to mounts and I have the skywatcher drivers etc installed, I select skywatcher from GS server but just get "error axis1 timeout).

Nina and other programs connect fine, but I really like apt and would like to use it for all my equipment. 

Any help greatly appreciated. 

[happy-kat]

When I use other programs on Windows that go through ascom I have to connect in a certain order.

1- connect pc wifi

telescope was facing north level and horizontal (I use mount in altaz mode), turn on az-gti

2- connect mobile wifi

3- start  mobile synscan pro app and connect

I did a one star alignment

4- start ascom device hub and connect

5- start connecting what ever you use and hopefully it'll work for you

Edited November 30, 2023 by happy-kat

[nickp87]

Thanks happy. Tried but still no luck, all my other programs can connect fine via ascom, just seems to be gsserver having issues. 

[Yoddha]

Hi Nick,

Could you try to connect the mount to the ASCOM Devices hub and then make connection to the hub in APT?

[nickp87]

Just to update incase it helps anyone else, turned out I needed to install the beta version of gss to get it all working over WiFi. Mostly complete now, only thing I can't do is manually slew in APT? Goto and the rest works, just not the n,e,s,w buttons, but I can live with that. 

@Yoddha I will give this a another try next time and see if that works now, I did have a quick look at ascom device hub but also had issues connecting with that.

Anyway, very happy now I can run everything through APT, by far the best program I have found so far. 

Edited November 30, 2023 by nickp87

[Yoddha]

Thank you very much Nick!