Automatically start telescope connection in Maxim DL

[RyanParle]

I am having a small problem in automating my telescope with CCDC, after a little bit of messing around i have now managed to get everything working as it should, apart from one small element... Guiding

now the guiding appears to work at least on a false guide star! but i cant seem to make it automated as i use EQMOD and its pulse guide feature, this needs maxim to be connected to the mount/telescope so the guiding commands can be sent. But as CCDC controls the mount directly it does not tell maxim to start a connection to the mount, only the cameras.

Does anyone know if there is a way to get maxim to connect to the telescope on launch?

as i say everything else appears to work nicely but i will always need to be there to press the button in order to connect maxim with the mount!

[SteveL]

Odd, I have never needed to do this... Maxim v4, EQMOD, CCDC, EQ6. What mount settings do you have in CCDC? And what mount settings do you manually set in Maxim?

[RyanParle]

No worries, Matt has fixed CCDC to start the telescope control within maxim. works like a charm now!

I'm really impressed with Matt's work on CCDC I have had a couple small issues which I have mentioned on the Yahoo group, usually within 12 hours Matt has created a new version and fixed the problem! I wish the likes of Microsoft were the same!!

[FraserClarke]

Glad you got it sorted so quickly -- that is a fast development response time

For reference, to get MaximDL (v5 at least) to connect everything on start-up;

File->Settings->General(tab)

Tick "Connect to all equipment"

[RyanParle]

Glad you got it sorted so quickly -- that is a fast development response time

For reference, to get MaximDL (v5 at least) to connect everything on start-up;

File->Settings->General(tab)

Tick "Connect to all equipment"

Yes it is a fast development time, although it did need an upgrade of maxim DL from v4.48 to v5.12 (apparently 5.08 is sufficient) in order to support the automation.

I did notice the connect to all equipment setting, but it is not required as CCDC takes care of triggering the connection.