I've added basic alignment building to the driver. I want to test it first before making a pull request to merge it into the main INDI tree. I hope that my skies allow for that soon

-- Hans

Hi Hans,

nice work ! Do you support refraction update as well ?

Michel

Hi Michel, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, the driver so far is just an interface to the 10Micron API meaning that :newalpt wants the plate solved J2000 coordinates to be corrected for precession, nutation and light aberration in JNow, but not corrected for refraction in any way.
I would like to add the J2000->JNow(precession, nutation and light aberration) to INDI by adding (parts of) ERFA to INDI, but that would also make INDI quite a bit larger and I doubt 'the other INDI devs' want that.
-- Hans

Hans,

the ASCOM drivers on windows should be able to update the pressure and temp for refraction correction to the mount automatically. Does this your driver, too ?

Michel

Hi Michel, Yes, setting the temperature and pressure for the mount to use to correct for refraction is in there. (the :SRTMP and :SRPRS commands)
These can be seen in the screenshot I posted in the first two rows.
Obviously something still needs to provide real temperature and pressure measurements, but the driver can at least set them in the mount.
-- Hans

This is excellent thank you. When or if I ever have clear skies again I will try this.

Hi,

long time no sign from further developments. But development still went on. For that reason I would like to give you a sneak preview of the next version 3:
It is still in alpha for testing.
MountWizzard3 runs on Windows10, Linux and Mac OSX with the same functionality.

Main topics were to go for multi platform, increase model making and handling speed, integration INDI framework especially for non windows users and adding support for profiles.
The videos are mainly made on windows, but there are 2 showing the usage on Mac and Linux as well. There is no difference in GUI and features between platforms.

The videos are on youtube, you will find them:

Doing the preparation before model build:
Dealing with settings:
Optimizing the model:
Building an initial model:
Building a full model with 43 points:
Building a full model with 100 points:
Working with profiles:
How to work on Mac OSX:
How to work on Linux Ubuntu 16.04:

CS

Michel

Great work Michael, this looks absolutely fantastic!

Hi Jasem,

thanks for the motivating feedback !

Michel

Awesome job (I looked at the linux video).
I am seriously considering buying a 10micron because of the availaibility of such software.

I havent had time to take an in-depth look into github.com/mworion/mountwizzard , but I wanted to ask you if it would be possible to completely automate the modeling process by calling your software functions through an API ?

The 2.5 branch on your github doesn't look like it is featuring much of the indi support you show on the video, am I doing something wrong ?

Hi,
first 2.5 branch does not support indi, it will be available on MountWizzard3. You saw videos from alpha versions of MW3.
Actually automating the process is exactly what MountWizzard3 does. Just one button press and you get a new model in your mount. There is a remote shutdown feature build in in case you would like to close all programs remotely.
The point is if you are doing model build, especially outside, there is the need of manual interaction for polar alignment necessary by turning knobs. So this can't be automated (at least with low effort).

Michel

Ok thank you, then I will wait for version 3 to be released.