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Now that I have got AA8 'talking' remotely (Ethernet) to my setup, I thought it would nice to run everything, i.e. Capture, Guiding, and Plate Solving in a single package. I am currently using Sharpcap with PHD2 for capture/guiding, and AA8 for processing. As I am currently stuck under a blanket of ...

Ok Guys, persistence pays off, and problem now solved :) The problem lay in the Altair ASCOM camera drivers file. This is downloaded from the Altair 'support page', and downloads as a ZIP file with an ms extension. This needs to be changed to an msi extension which I did. However, when extracted the...

All done as in paragraph one, except that I am using Windows Remote Desktop (RDP), which works fine on the remote PC. The problem appears to be ASCOM related. Anything relate to ASCOM on the mini pc does not work, whereas non ASCOM applications work fine. Device Manager reports that the usb connecti...

Ok Iver and Fabio. thank you. But first an update. I don't like being beaten, so I have persisted. I thought I had found the problem, in that a bit of research established that the ASCOM Platform will only work with Windows 7 or 10. Believing that the Mini PC (an i7 Gigabyte Brix) was running Window...

I think that the problem is some incompatibility between AA8 and Windows 8.1 Pro. On the Laptop, which is running Windows 10 Home, there is no problem. Of course RDP will only work with Windows Pro as the remote PC. Although Windows 10 Home can 'talk' to it, it can't be the RDP host. On the Laptop, ...

I originally started off running a USB cable out to the camera, and of course AA8 worked fine. However, running out cables, and then putting them away each time, was hassle. So when I acquired the mini PC, which I mounted on the scope, and switched over to Wi-Fi. I can't remember if I tried AA8 usin...

This is as far as I can get in AA8, so its all there, except it can't connect to the camera.

Yes, exactly that. I can control everything on the remote PC via RDP, without any problems, with the exception of AA8, which while it opens, and allows to me to select the camera, view and set its properties (Gain, Offset.... etc), it will not connect to the camera. As I said, disconnect from the re...

Here's an update Iver. I found how to enable/disable Alpaca, and it was disabled. The end result, "cannot connect to camera" is the same, with Alpaca enabled, or disabled. The AA294CPROTEC is shown as 'connected' in Device Manager/ Universal Serial Bus Device. I have tried each, and every option und...

Yep, I'm confused too Iver :lol: . That is indeed what I am trying to do. I was under the impression that Alpaca was just a later development of ASCOM, and developed by the same people, but then I am a retired Senior Technical manager, (RF & Electronics) and EMC Consultant Engineer, not a software/I...

Out of interest, I removed the ASCOM Platform, Altair ASCOM Camera Driver, AA8, and all other astro software from the laptop, so that all the relevant software resided only on the remote Mini PC. The result was exactly the same as above. The camera listed ASCOM (Alpaca) Camera Chooser, and the camer...

Hi Iver. thank you for your response. If I don't have the ASCOM Platform, and the Altair ASCOM camera driver installed on the remote PC, then AA8 doesn't know the camera is there, it doesn't appear in the ASCOM Camera Chooser Window, and the ASCOM camera control panel doesn't open. With the Altair A...