PHD, Maxim and the DMK?

[Ant]

I haven't found anything much easier than PHD for guiding - apart from a few very minor glitches - it just works....

But I do find it quite resource hungry...

Does anyone know if the DMK21 camera (which I use for guiding) is compatable with Maxim?

If so how - I cannot get it to recognise the DMK at all...

Cheers

Ant

[MikeD]

I use my DMk21 and Maxim no problems, in the setup tab of the CCD control window under autoguider select the "setup" button and chose "Video DS" as the camera model,( I am assuming you already have the DMK drivers loaded ) that should do it.

Mike.

[Ant]

Thats excellent news Mike, thank you.

I tried all sorts of things and failed the other evening. I'll give it a go on the next clear night (which might be tonight )

Cheers

Ant

[Arp]

Hello,

I hope somebody is still reading this, because I have strange problem with Maxim and the DMK21.

It all worked fine. Maxim controlled my SBIG ST8300, the dmk21 as a guidecam und a Starlight Xpress Filterwheel. Then I reinstalled the notebook because it was time

and now, if I choose the dmk21 as a guidecam and hit connect, I get the error that maxim cannot connect to the filterwheel. If I choose no guidecam, it works.

The Filterwheel and the SBIG are connected to a USB hub, the dmk is directly connected to the laptop.

Any ideas?

thx.

[Ant]

I never managed to get anything from the Maxim/DMK combo...

I also couldn't get maxim to connect to the SX filter wheel, I put it down to a windows 7 64bit issue and considering that I needed to refocus between filters, I didn't need the automation - so I haven't looked any further into this.

The DMK and PHD issues that I had were all USB related.

If you post your question in a new thread, you'll probably get more replies.

Welcome to SGL, BTW

Ant