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Hello,

There is some support in sharpcap for seeing monitors, but not apparently for Ascom "ObservingCondition" devices.

Could you please explain the difference and why there is no "ObservingCondition" support that seems to work in sharpcap (for curiosity).

My telescope mount does export an Alpaca "ObservingConditions" which gives a number of info (including a fwmh from the polar scope), and I wanted to know if these could be sent/used by SharpCap (but I do not have any string need for it).

Thanks,
Cyrille

Hi Cyrille,

support for extra ASCOM device categories usually happens when some interest pops up to use those sort of devices in SharpCap, which often follows the hardware becoming cheaper and more widely used.

Adding some way to set up an observing conditions device and show the readout is one thing, but what else could be done with it inside SharpCap? Since the device itself probably has some sort of application to show its readouts anyway, there needs to be something extra available in SharpCap rather than just another readout I guess.

cheers,

Robin