Hans
Hans replied to the topic 'Baader Steeldrive II won‘t connect' in the forum. 1 year ago


Noted. I still think this is the best way forward, as the only alternative I can think about is you setting up a full compiler and debugger. My hypothesis is there is a basic connection issue that might show with other tools as well. We may need a few rounds to get the needed info though. I hope you're up for it :)

The idea is the following : use a text terminal with a command line tool like screen to connect to the proper serial port and ask the focuser to report its version. That's all. If that works then the other commands will too.
If you use that URL that I pasted earlier to install screen and/or minicom then we can proceed. You may need both. Run these commands with the instructions below and paste us the exact input/output of the teminal text.

Like this :

20221110_142204 hans@T450s:~/ minicom --device /dev/cu.usbserial-A907KE80 --noinit --baudrate 19200

And in minicom you type
$BS GET VERSION
and press enter at the end. We need Minicom to send a line feed and a carriage return. We may need to configure that if it doesn't do that by tiself already.

And we expect something like the example answer from chapter 3.2.4 in www.baader-planetarium.com/en/downloads/...al_documentation.pdf :
$BS STATUS VERSION:0.700(Apr 5 2019)

Let's see how far we get.

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