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Hi Robin / Any AAF users ?
I bought an Altair AAF. (I dont use their Cameras). Downloaded the Ascom driver from Altair and installed it. The focuser hardware is found. So that bit is OK so far.
My question is about all the Altair camera options that appear under [Cameras], when i have only one camera attached (QHY174M).
Does anyone know why this list is so messy (See the screen shot). Is the driver package, or my Ascom version, or my somewhat outdated version of SC 4.1, possible causes?

I dont understand the listing, but i would like to know if there is a way of removing the extraneous cameras if at all possible.

Here is a screen shot of the camera listing.
Thanks very much
Tim
(Abingdon)

Hi Tim,

you just need to update SharpCap to a recent version from the downloads page, which should remove the 'AAF' entries from the menu.

The Altair/ToupTek/Meade/Mallincam focusers and filter wheels are a bit odd in that they are accessed almost as if they were a camera and detected in the same way as Altair/ToupTek/Meade/etc cameras. Older versions of SharpCap didn't know about this, so list them as cameras. Newer versions know to make a separate check and spot that the device *isn't* a camera and excludes them from the camera list.

cheers,

Robin

Hi Robin,
I have installed the the most recent version of SC as you suggested, and the problem has been solved. Many thanks.
Now looking forward to setting up the auto-focuser

Tim
(Abingdon)