Can I control a Altinak Flip Flat with Sharpcap?
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Can I control a Altinak Flip Flat with Sharpcap?
Is there a way to open and close my Flip-Flat in Sharpcap?
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Re: Can I control a Altinak Flip Flat with Sharpcap?
Hi,
probably, although I have not used the device myself.
It looks like the device has an ASCOM driver, but it will most likely be an ASCOM 'Cover/Calibrator' driver, which SharpCap doesn't support. However, there also appears to be a command line application to trigger the device - 'aacmd.exe' (although I can't find any further details as the downloads page links I found give a '404 not found' error).
SharpCap can run external programs like this aacmd.exe via the sequencer tool, so you could integrate the use of the flat into a sequence that way. You could also save two separate sequence files to activate and deactivate the device, and if you run them from the SCS file they will be remembered in the Sequencer->Run Recent menu, so fairly handy to get at.
cheers,
Robin
probably, although I have not used the device myself.
It looks like the device has an ASCOM driver, but it will most likely be an ASCOM 'Cover/Calibrator' driver, which SharpCap doesn't support. However, there also appears to be a command line application to trigger the device - 'aacmd.exe' (although I can't find any further details as the downloads page links I found give a '404 not found' error).
SharpCap can run external programs like this aacmd.exe via the sequencer tool, so you could integrate the use of the flat into a sequence that way. You could also save two separate sequence files to activate and deactivate the device, and if you run them from the SCS file they will be remembered in the Sequencer->Run Recent menu, so fairly handy to get at.
cheers,
Robin