Intiating PHD2 tracking from Sharpcap

[SanjeevJ]

For the EAA workflow, once PHD2 is set up - it would be nice to have Sharpcap sequencer be able to initiate guiding as part of the script and then pause guiding before we slew to the next object. PHD2 has 3 steps to start guiding... start looping, (auto) select stars, and begin guiding. I am not sure if Sharpcap tries to initiate all 3 steps sequentially or just one? Even if I use "monitor guiding application" and then "start guiding if necessary", the process fails. How can I automate the first two steps, since I am just clicking the PHD2 buttons, there is no thinking involved? TYIA!

[admin]

Hi,

the 'start guiding if necessary' step should work through the following stages as needed to get guiding going

* connect hardware in PHD2 if it has not yet been connected
* start looping
* auto select a star
* calibrate if needed
* start guiding

To see what is going on, have a look in both the sequencer log and the main SharpCap log, which should (somewhere between them) have information that shows where this sequence is breaking down. If you can't figure it out, feel free to post the logs here for me to have a look at.

cheers,

Robin