Provides interface to implement automated polar alignment correction (PAC). More...

#include <indipacinterface.h>

Detailed Description

Provides interface to implement automated polar alignment correction (PAC).

The interface exposes manual step controls via the PAC_MANUAL_ADJUSTMENT number property. A client (e.g. Ekos) can nudge the mount by a signed number of degrees on either axis:

Sign convention for manual adjustments:

Azimuth (MANUAL_AZ_STEP): positive value → East, negative value → West
Altitude (MANUAL_ALT_STEP): positive value → North, negative value → South

The ManualAdjustmentNP property state reflects the overall motion status:

IPS_BUSY – either axis is still moving
IPS_ALERT – either axis returned an error
IPS_OK – both axes finished successfully

Optional capability-gated properties:

PAC_HAS_POSITION : PositionNP reports the current AZ/ALT offset in degrees (read-only)
PAC_HAS_SPEED : SpeedNP controls the motor speed
PAC_CAN_REVERSE : AZReverseSP / ALTReverseSP reverse individual axis direction

IMPORTANT: initProperties() must be called before any other function. IMPORTANT: updateProperties() must be called in your driver's updateProperties(). IMPORTANT: processSwitch() must be called in your driver's ISNewSwitch(). IMPORTANT: processNumber() must be called in your driver's ISNewNumber().

Author: Joaquin Rodriguez, Jasem Mutlaq

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

indipacinterface.h