Submitted by flyingsoon on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 18:16
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Hey everybody!
i'm new in this forum.
i developped a slider based on igus rail working with arduino. it's made for video motion and stopmotion and already working great!
for now, i would like to improve the system with a meade head.
i have the 497 EP autostar and i would like to developp an arduino control of it.
does anyone try this before?
does the meade protocol (working with the old 497) work with the EP one?
thx in advance for your answers.
I didn't know that Meade ever
I didn't know that Meade ever published their protocol? Then again, I'm not too familiar with the interior workings of the Meade heads. I know the Syntra-based heads (Merlin, Orion, etc.) are pretty well understood at this point.
I do know that at one point the new version of the Meade head was incompatible with the older ones (the timeismotion software was completely incompatible with the new firmware, iirc).
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I'm not sure if 'protocol' is
I'm not sure if 'protocol' is the real name for this, but you can find something looking like this :
http://www.meade.com/support/LX200CommandSet.pdf on the moco website...
there is as well :
'a sample script would look like this:
:Sw3# // set maximum speed below MAX
:Ea17686# // set pan speed
:Ee8843# // set tilt speed
:Mw# // start pan moving clockwise (:Me# is CCW)
:Mn# // start tilt moving up (:Ms# moves down)
,30000 // wait 30 seconds (in milliseconds)
:Ea26259# // set new pan speed
:Mw# // the M command makes the speed change take effect
,30000 // wait 30 seconds (in milliseconds)
:Ea35372# // add to pan speed
:Ee9727# // add to tilt speed
:Mw# // make pan change happen
:Mn# // make tilt change happen
,30000 // and so on and so forth....'
so, that seems to be a good begining... well, i hope so.
thx for your answer, i think i'm just starting this stuff.