All night Dragscript with Wait Safe and Pocket Power Box management

Voyager Shared DragScript Example
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Hello to all,

I’ve just finished a DragScript to control all night shooting at my observatory. It’s based in the official example provided by Leonardo but I don’t have a control card so I removed all that instructions and rearranged some logic.

Maybe, this could be useful to those who have a Pegasus Astro PowerBox (the link points to the PDF “PocketPowerbox Serial Command Language”). The serial port command turns out very handy.

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If somebody have some idea… there is plenty of room for improvement :thinking:

Thank you Leonardo for this incredibly useful and well made piece of software.
Jorge

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Wow thanks for sharing Jorge! I have a base PPB and I didn’t even know the serial port command. Looks very useful!

However I don’t recognize the “Serial Port String Transmit”. Is that a Viking-only function? Where do I find it in the DragScript editor?

Thanks,
Yizhou

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Hi Yizhou,

It’s inside the OPERATING SYSTEM group of the editor:

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Cheers

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Sweet! Thanks a lot. Will play with it.

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I am really very happy that DragScript can be so useful, flexible and decisive. This was the very spirit with which it was born. Congratulations on the great insight and for sharing, I believe many will find your DragScript useful.

Thanks to you
Leonardo

PS please spread words about Voyager , this is really important for us !

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Does the serial port transmit work regardless of whether the equipment is connected in Voyager?

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Hi, I don’t know for sure. Actually, in this case, the PPB is not connected to voyager. It’s an independent piece of hardware that I connect and control through this command (Serial Port Transmit). I think this is the reason that the command is inside the Operating system group of the DragScript editor.

You just have to try, I think.

Cheers,
Jorge

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I am trying this for the first time tonight but I got an error message “Error Serial TX => Access to the port ‘COM7’ is denied”. My script and PPB connections are as below. Is there anything else I need to do to make it work?

Thanks!

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You cannot open a port already open. Only one program at time can open and use a COM port.
Try to use VIking instead to sharing with Voyager the Pocket Powerbox

All the best
Leonardo

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Thanks Leonardo that’s it. I disconnect from PPB software and this works.

I’ll look into Viking.

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This version of Viking manage the Pocket version

All the best
Leonardo

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