Re: iPolar Running on Win11?
As I said, the camera and software work just fine and update rapidly.? I gave you the version information.? Does your QHY software and driver match the sane versions?? If not, seek the answer there.? I am not running any special video software.? I am running into a USB 2.0? hub that goes into a USB3 port on this Laptop.?
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, 1:29 PM Brian Valente < bvalente@...> wrote: This is not a direct fix, but have you tried using sharpcap polar align with the polemaster camera?
You need to actually do a polar alignment.? The application screen has refresh frequency issues, refreshes way too slow and / or locks up.
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
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Re: iPolar Running on Win11?
This is not a direct fix, but have you tried using sharpcap polar align with the polemaster camera?
You need to actually do a polar alignment.? The application screen has refresh frequency issues, refreshes way too slow and / or locks up.
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
-- Brian?
Brian Valente astro portfolio? portfolio astrobin?
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Re: iPolar Running on Win11?
You need to actually do a polar alignment.? The application screen has refresh frequency issues, refreshes way too slow and / or locks up.
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
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Re: iPolar Running on Win11?
I run Polemaster from my HP i5 Laptop running Win11 Home Edition laptop...no problems at this time.
So let me test it again as we speak.
Yes...camera and software are working.??
This is using PoleMaster software version 1.3.2.8 Copyright 2015
The Polemaster appears in Windows Device Manager under the heading? ? ?Astroimaging equipment? ? ? ? POLEMASTER
Click on this and shows properties: ? Device type Astroimaging equipment? ? Manufacturer. QHY CCD ? Location. Port_#0007.Hub_#0002
Device status ? The device is working properly?
Driver: ? ?POLEMASTER ? ?Provider.? QHY CCD ? ?Driver date 9/15/2015 ? ?Driver version 1.0.0.0 ? ?Digital Signer.? Light Speed Vision (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
Contact me?directly if you have any questions...
Best of luck, Michael Herman ??
I currently have a PoleMaster that I use for PA.? I replaced my laptop last month and the PoleMaster is little more than an expensive paper-weight.? My laptop is running Win11 Pro on an Intel 11 Generation Core i7 CPU.? To get the PoleMaster device driver to load you need to turn off Core Memory Isolation that Win11 uses.? This makes Win11 suspectable to new and upcoming viruses and malware.? Win11 also marks the device driver as 'Risky'.
I turned off Core Memory Isolation and tried to run the PoleMaster app and as many know there are screen refresh and lockup issues.? I tried the trick of playing a MP3 song - Dark Side of the Moon and that didn't help.? The PoleMaster app locks up to the point where you have to use Task Manager to kill the app.
I am looking for feedback from users that are using iPolar and Win11 to PA their mount.? Does it work on WIn11, are there any issues...etc?
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
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Re: iPolar Running on Win11?
QHY support is telling people to play a MP3 video to fix the screen refresh problem.? If one of my SW developers told users that this was a work around when I was at Intel I would have them fired....!??
I have several low quality video's of Pink Floyd on my laptop.
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
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Re: iPolar Running on Win11?
what's this mp3 trick? that's crazy
I use polemaster with latest Win 11, but as I mentioned before i have N5905 celeron chips in the Beelinks i have
On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:29 PM Jim Waters < jimwaters@...> wrote: I currently have a PoleMaster that I use for PA.? I replaced my laptop last month and the PoleMaster is little more than an expensive paper-weight.? My laptop is running Win11 Pro on an Intel 11 Generation Core i7 CPU.? To get the PoleMaster device driver to load you need to turn off Core Memory Isolation that Win11 uses.? This makes Win11 suspectable to new and upcoming viruses and malware.? Win11 also marks the device driver as 'Risky'.
I turned off Core Memory Isolation and tried to run the PoleMaster app and as many know there are screen refresh and lockup issues.? I tried the trick of playing a MP3 song - Dark Side of the Moon and that didn't help.? The PoleMaster app locks up to the point where you have to use Task Manager to kill the app.
I am looking for feedback from users that are using iPolar and Win11 to PA their mount.? Does it work on WIn11, are there any issues...etc?
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
-- Brian?
Brian Valente astro portfolio? portfolio astrobin?
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I currently have a PoleMaster that I use for PA.? I replaced my laptop last month and the PoleMaster is little more than an expensive paper-weight.? My laptop is running Win11 Pro on an Intel 11 Generation Core i7 CPU.? To get the PoleMaster device driver to load you need to turn off Core Memory Isolation that Win11 uses.? This makes Win11 suspectable to new and upcoming viruses and malware.? Win11 also marks the device driver as 'Risky'.
I turned off Core Memory Isolation and tried to run the PoleMaster app and as many know there are screen refresh and lockup issues.? I tried the trick of playing a MP3 song - Dark Side of the Moon and that didn't help.? The PoleMaster app locks up to the point where you have to use Task Manager to kill the app.
I am looking for feedback from users that are using iPolar and Win11 to PA their mount.? Does it work on WIn11, are there any issues...etc?
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
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Re: Losmandy GM8/GM11 Encoder Kit
Good analogy!? Goto operation certainly loses most of the magic for visual observing, but then, IMHO the real experience is not a DSC equipped GEM, but an alt-az mount with no encoders, no polar align, nothing but old-skool star hopping !??
Best regards,
Daniel
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Re: Hand controller not manually slewing via arrows
Yeah check the G2 HC I¡¯d either in centring or some mode other than guide speed mode. ?
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Brendan
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Re: Hand controller not manually slewing via arrows
Yes, the physical hand controller.
Thanks. I¡¯ll test these ideas out. Can¡¯t recall offhand. Will report back.
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Re: Hand controller not manually slewing via arrows
Hi chuck
Are you referring to the physical hand controller?
I recall something about nina 3 point alignment parking the mount (or stopping tracking) after completing, so you might check to see if it's tracking
Also a couple other things: - make sure your speed is slew and not guide - you must be on the home screen for any direction buttons to work on the HC
I have been using NINA to 3 point polar align. After it finishes, I use the hand controller (or NINA, depending on my mood) to slew to some bright star to focus. If I need to move the scope to find the star (which sometimes I do, even when NINA error is less than 1') I try to use the hand controller buttons to look for the star. However, it will not move the mount (even though I just slewed to the star via its goto). If I have not used NINA to direct the mount, the hand controller works.?
Are these two in conflict? Is there a setting somewhere I need to toggle between them? Or ???
-- Brian?
Brian Valente astro portfolio? portfolio astrobin?
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Hand controller not manually slewing via arrows
I have been using NINA to 3 point polar align. After it finishes, I use the hand controller (or NINA, depending on my mood) to slew to some bright star to focus. If I need to move the scope to find the star (which sometimes I do, even when NINA error is less than 1') I try to use the hand controller buttons to look for the star. However, it will not move the mount (even though I just slewed to the star via its goto). If I have not used NINA to direct the mount, the hand controller works.?
Are these two in conflict? Is there a setting somewhere I need to toggle between them? Or ???
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Re: Issues With Losmandy Polar Scope and QHY PoleMaster
I will start using NINA 3 Point Polar Alignment.
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Jim W
Phoenix, AZ. USA
Losmandy G11G, NINA 2.0 Beta / ASTAP, ASI2600MC Pro, Sky-Watcher Scopes
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Re: Issues With Losmandy Polar Scope and QHY PoleMaster
Regarding the polar alignment, as a stopgap you could do a drift alignment.? You can do it visually, or use PHD2.
Bob
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Re: Issues With Losmandy Polar Scope and QHY PoleMaster
I also get an error with WIN10 when using the Polemaster app, where the refresh of the image lags in the 10s of seconds, which equals not usable for PA.
I have found that if I run an video in the background it "forces" the system to enable the Polemaster to refresh the image, and then it works.? ?
There are a few tech websites that offer possible WINDOWS config settings that may help; I had no success, so just run a video in the background.
Phil
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Re: Gearbox replacement instructions for G11+OPWB
Hemant,
Please post a pcture so we so we can see what you have. There are at least three different arrangements, as chip identified in his post.
Peter
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Re: Help with PemPro on G11/Gemini
Good to hear on the progress Bret
Hi Folks,
Happy to report that I have Gemini working on my home router with DHCP. ? The problem was me ... while connecting in the cable for Gemini, I knocked a different cable loose ... I noticed when try again this evening. ? Once connected, I can see and connect to Gemini over my home network. ? Gemini is still not visible when connected to my Google WiFi unit, but that appears to be a compatibility issue of some sort ... DHCP is working on my Gemini.
-Bret
-- Brian?
Brian Valente astro portfolio? portfolio astrobin?
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Re: Help with PemPro on G11/Gemini
Hi Folks,
Happy to report that I have Gemini working on my home router with DHCP. ? The problem was me ... while connecting in the cable for Gemini, I knocked a different cable loose ... I noticed when try again this evening. ? Once connected, I can see and connect to Gemini over my home network. ? Gemini is still not visible when connected to my Google WiFi unit, but that appears to be a compatibility issue of some sort ... DHCP is working on my Gemini.
-Bret
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Re: Losmandy GM8/GM11 Encoder Kit
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:27 PM, George Cushing wrote:
INA is a Chinese firm. Seems to be in the digital measurement?space.?
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How do you read,?2 x encoders (311,296 steps)? I'd sure like to read the "installation instruction booklet" before I laid out the cash.
The 311K encoders are pretty good when used with a Nexus DSC. You cannot move the mount by hand fast enough to over run the Nexus DSC, I tried it clutches fully loos with an epmty saddle on the GM8G, I yanked the CW shaft as fast as I could and no errors happend! Apparently the port sample rate is high enough to never miss an increment. The newer Nexus DSC Pro is even faster @ 100 million tics per second. So I guess the Nexus DSCs are fast enough even with what appear to be a pretty high tic count.? -- Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware?
? ?Astropheric Weather Forecast - South Pasadena, CA?
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Re: Losmandy GM8/GM11 Encoder Kit
I thought INA was a bearing comapny in Germany? They make great bearings IME.?
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Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware?
? ?Astropheric Weather Forecast - South Pasadena, CA?
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Michael Herman
Chuck Schreiner
Chip Louie