AUTOSTAR INFORMATION Last updated: 12 February 2010

Subject:	Autostar Easy Align
Sent:	Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:32:51
From:	John Farrant (johnfarrant@gmail.com)
The following commands, written into a suitable program, will send (via
RS232) date and time to the ETX. After this  the tracking will start.
Then the telescope will slew to the first alignment star selected by the
Autostar.

Then you take over as usual.
 
#:SC 09/11/09#   //enter your correct date
pause 1 sec
#:SL 18:16:56#   //enter your correct time
pause 1 sec
#:ES11034#:EK68#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK09#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
 
Hope this is useful.
 
Thanks for all your hard work in maintaining the site.
 
Regards
 
John

Subject:	re: Autostar Easy Align
Sent:	Saturday, September 20, 2008 18:44:01
From:	richard seymour (rseymour@wolfenet.com)
For the curious, John's technique is invoking
Setup/Targets, and scrolling down to "Astronomical"

Then it taps "enter" (to select the above), then "mode"
(which brings us to  Select/Setup)
then four "enters" which walks us through the
(pre-set) Time/Date/Daylight prompts, and Align/Easy
(or Align/Auto) prompts.

But: the supplied sequence hinges on the Autostar
being loaded with v41Ec through v43Eg of the firmware.
(for the :ES to invoke Setup/Targets)
I was going to say that it -only- worked with v43Eg,
but i just riffled back through a number of versions,
and it appears to operate successfully back to,
but not including (or beyond) v40Ef

There's no guarantee that it will work with future versions,
but we'll just have to wait and see...

have fun
--dick

Subject:	#497 serial Menu command for Handbox control 
Sent:	Thursday, February 11, 2010 05:43:01
From:	Michael.Kruse@enercon.de (Michael.Kruse@enercon.de)
I am Michael from northern germany, and try now to write a small Program
for Autostar 497 Handbox Setup.

On the Page http://weasner.com/etx/autostar/2008/commands.html I found
some serial Menu command to go throu the Menu :

#:SC 09/11/09#   //enter your correct date
pause 1 sec
#:SL 18:16:56#   //enter your correct time
pause 1 sec
#:ES11034#:EK68#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK09#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec
#:EK13#
pause 1 sec

My question now : Do you have some more "Menu hopping" commands or is
there somewhere a document about this commands ?

I could not find any information about this ... 

Kind regards
Michael

And:

yes I saw many articles, very helpfull Page. 

But for direct menu settings(down, enter, ...) I found only this four :

#:ES11034# 
#:EK68# 
#:EK13# 
#:EK09# 

Now I am searching more of this :EK13# entering direct menu commands. I
search manualy in the Feedback's but did not find more ...

Thanks for your Help, 

Michael

From our resident AutoStar expert:

From:	richard seymour (rseymour@wolfenet.com)
>> Now I am searching more of this :EK13# entering direct menu commands. 

:EK number#   Keypad: the number is the decimal ascii number of the
   keycode assigned by Meade to the keys.  Beyond the obvious 48 through
   57 for the "zero" through "nine" keys, the other codes are:
:EK13#   [enter]
:EK10#   [enter held]
:EK9#    [mode](escape)
:EK11#   [mode held]
:EK71#  [goto]
:EK25#   [goto held]
:EK68#  [scroll down]
:EK85#  [scroll up]
:EK63#  [help]
:EK48#  (zero)
:EK49#  (one)
:EK50#  (2)
:EK51#   (3)
:EK52#  (4)
:EK53#  (5)
:EK54#  (6)
:EK55#  (7)
:EK56#  (8)
:EK57#  (nine)
:EK87#  [left slew]  (W)
:EK69#  [right slew] (E)
:EK78#  [up slew]    (N)
:EK83#  [down slew]  (S)
---------------

have fun
--dick

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