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I belong to an astronomy club, and we have a Losmandy Titan mount, running L6.01 Gemini 2.? I connect the mount via Ethernet to my laptop PC.??

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One of our club members would like to do some plate solving with the mount, by connecting his ASI Air device to the mount via Ethernet, and accessing the ASI Air app using his Android tablet.

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He's been to the Gemini 2 driver download page, and he's having problem downloading/installing the driver onto his Android tablet.

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Does anyone know if an Android driver exists to make these wireless people happy?

As far as I know, the gemini driver you download from that website is for Windows only. Also, I don’t think there are drivers for android but you don’t really need them either.?

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Now the required disclaimer, I’m not an AsiAir user but I’ve read enough reports to get an idea. If your friend wants to use the AAir and the android tablet, first he’ll need to connect the mount to the AAir with it’s own drivers (zwo has their own drivers for Gemini). Once the mount is connected and recognized you can access the AAir through the tablet, which will be connected directly to the AAir via wifi. It is the AAir that will connect and control the mount, not the android tablet.

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Hopefully I make some sense with this convoluted explanation :)

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Good luck

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Jonathan

OK.... we tried connecting to the mount last night, with ASI Air.

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To my amazement, ZWO has drivers for various mounts, including the Gemini 2 driver, pre-loaded in the ASI Air unit.? I do not know how recent the driver is.? We were setting up the IP address page in the ASI Air, for Ethernet connection.? We had the top IP address different, between the ASI Air, and the mount, which is the correct thing to do.? We input the same Subnet Mask numbers, but the ASI Air would not allow input of the Default Gateway numbers.

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Does anyone know how to get by that???

You may wish to try USB first just to make sure everything works. Later on you can try ethernet.

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USB is almost plug and play ;).

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I have no clue, like, at all, how to help with ethernet and the AsiAir so someone else will have to chime in lol.

Thanks for that.? We did try USB, and I think we're close on Ethernet connection if we just get by on the Default Gateway input.

Default gateway is usually same as primary DNS ….which is your router IP address

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Brendan

Brendan... please read the post I gave above.? ASI Air would not allow any input into the Default Gateway data field.

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Look... I have a Losmandy mount.? This is a Losmandy forum.? But someone with familiarity connecting a Losmandy mount to the ASI Air is going to have to respond to this.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM, <dkfcpalfd@...> wrote:

I belong to an astronomy club, and we have a Losmandy Titan mount, running L6.01 Gemini 2.? I connect the mount via Ethernet to my laptop PC.??

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One of our club members would like to do some plate solving with the mount, by connecting his ASI Air device to the mount via Ethernet, and accessing the ASI Air app using his Android tablet.

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He's been to the Gemini 2 driver download page, and he's having problem downloading/installing the driver onto his Android tablet.

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Does anyone know if an Android driver exists to make these wireless people happy?

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Hi dkfcpalfd@... - whoever that is,

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Please sign you posts with your name or at least a handle.??

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Unlike most folks here replying I am an ASIAIR user and Losmandy Gemini user as well as an L6 beta team contributor.? I have been using the ASIAIR system since 2020.??

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The ASIAIR is a free standing astro imaging hardware and software system that is made up of a dedicated hardware controller that can only be used with ZWO peripherals and many popular mount control systems.? There are no Windows drivers to load and none is available and non needed, the ASIAIR control app and UI interface is only available for Android and ios based devices.?

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Do this: update to the latest Gemini 2 firmware versions namely: MU 6.12 and HC 1.64 using GFU or the manual ftp method.? You should have also programed your Gemini 2 PIC controllers with the latest v3 code.? Update your ASIAIR app to the latest version found on the ZWO website.? The ASIAIR app will automatically update your ASIAIR controller hardware's firmware id it is behind on firmware versions.??

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The ASIAIR Wi-Fi native mode is as a standard router, it creates its own network and can route packets and Wi-Fi with its own SSID.? You use your phone's WI-FI and connect to whatever SSID you assigned or the default if you didn't.? Go to the menu and configure the ASIAIR to use a fixed IP address, use the standard 192.168.1.1 for a freestanding router which is what the ASIAIR's normal default Wi-FI mode is from the factory.? ?

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If you don't already use static IP addressing set your Gemini to use a fixed static IP address on the same network as the ASIAIR by unselecting the DHCP check box and setting the IP and netmask appropriately.? If the Gemini is already using static IP addressing change the ASIAIR networking IP address and netmask information to put the AIR on the same network as the Gemini.??

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Write that Gemini IP address down as that is what you will use to get into the Gemini's web interface.? The only way into the ASIAIR that you should be using is through the ASIAIR's app.? Do not try to get into the ASIAIR directly using a browser or other terminal app.??

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Fire up the ASIAIR app and then just connect to the ASIAIR UI and configure the app to use the Losmandy mount.? Be sure to set the Losmandy specific network settings to use UTP and the matching ports etc copied over from the Gemini.?

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Now off you go.??

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 03:36 PM, <dkfcpalfd@...> wrote:

Brendan... please read the post I gave above.? ASI Air would not allow any input into the Default Gateway data field.

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Look... I have a Losmandy mount.? This is a Losmandy forum.? But someone with familiarity connecting a Losmandy mount to the ASI Air is going to have to respond to this.

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Hi Dan,

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Sorry for the off putting PM, I took your post as a demand for an answer, my mistake.?

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Here is what I think is going on.? The reason you cannot put anything into the Default Gateway IP fields is the ASIAIR is probably already in the normal default router mode and doesn't need a Default Gateway because the ASIAIR IS the Default Gateway and is serving packets.? So whatever the ASIAIR's IP address is is the Default Gateway to the devices that are connecting using the ASIAIR's Wi-Fi SSID.? Does that make more sense?? ??

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Thanks for that, Chip, but we can't connect to the mount.? In plugging into the Ethernet Port onto the ASI Air unit, green light comes on, with other end of the cable plugged into the Gemini circuit board.... but I know that doesn't mean much.??

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The club member is putting a thread onto an ASI Air forum.? The scope is in a remote location, and we have to drive there to do anything with the circuit board.? It has L6.02 installed which is fairly recent, with V3 software flashed onto the encoders.

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I'm thinking we're close to connecting.