On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:57 PM, Howard Dutton wrote: Plans change... looks like I'll be waiting to install as we're staying home this weekend. I managed to swap the control for the improved version t

I don't think I ever added code for GPS support even though the TLS subsystem has it. It needs a monitoring task to make it work.

I think I'm too lazy to bother, one could always handle it informally with a coin cell holder wired directly in. The TLS (RTC) support is in place for the Teensy and it should work in the OCS AFAIK.

The GitHub main branch OCS has now has an improved website with locale (language) support. Only English is supported for now but the hooks are there so other languages can be added with little effort.

Plans change... looks like I'll be waiting to install as we're staying home this weekend.

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 07:55 AM, Ed wrote: I'm not conversant with JavaScript and don't want to mess it up by blindly hacking so I'll leave this for now. Happy to test. I improvise when it comes to Ja

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 07:27 AM, Howard Dutton wrote: e.setRawValue(true) Change the check/uncheck without triggering the event. e.lastValue = true; Change the last state so when it is clicked again t

So much for that idea. I read that the following might work instead... e.setRawValue(true) with e.lastValue = true; or as needed: e.setRawValue(false) with e.lastValue = false;

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 06:28 AM, Howard Dutton wrote: I think it'd be a good idea to add .suspendEvents() around the javascript that checks/unchecks those. I can't test at the moment to see if the jav

I really pushed to limit the RAM use in this new code, I think it probably uses a little less than the old design so hopefully the Mega2560 is still ok.

Unexpected side effect, should be good now. Speaking of side-effects... the code that sets the checkbox checked/unchecked also interacts as it fires an unneeded event when it does so. I think it'd be

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 03:33 AM, Ed wrote: Also you might want to consider sticking a small heatsink on the Teensy. I came across this document mentioned on (if I remember correctly) the PRJC forum th

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 03:33 AM, Ed wrote: Oh, I hadn't realised the SPI header was intended for a RTC. I assume from the photo that this is just for the clock and doesn't have any other purpose (ie:

Here's the hardware:

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 09:43 AM, Ed wrote: Blimey! You don't want to get home after that round trip to discover you've left the lens cap on. You definitely want a certain level of reliability in opera

The website design in the OCS was still not really up to the level of that in OnStep's SWS so while I was at it... I redesigned the OCS index page to group the Ajax/Get code with the pages and "tiles"

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 03:28 AM, Ed wrote: Just being nosey - how far away from you is your observatory? 270 miles.

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 12:16 PM, Howard Dutton wrote: This is through the Alpaca driver... i.e. there is no custom driver only the ASCOM built-in support at work. Here's the built-in ASCOM Alpaca Swit

And here's NINA connected to the ASCOM Switch. This is through the Alpaca driver... i.e. there is no custom driver only the ASCOM built-in support at work. ...there is also OCS Alpaca support for Safe

I also give the OCS software a once over. The Alpaca support seems to be working well still. There were a few minor issues with the dome Alpaca code that were fixed. I did a heavy refactoring of the w