Hi all,
I did my first automatic session the other night, which I had viking and Voyager already open on my Observatory computer. Which worked perfectly I might add, kudos to the Voyager team. While testing some things during the day I closed down Viking, which controls the opening and closing of my roof via a K8055 board. When I tried a session lastnight, I couldn’t get the roof to open. Now the temperature inside the observatory had reached 45c so I had thought something went wrong due to the temperature. I tried several times to run the dragscript, which calls for the opening of the roof, but it wouldn’t. Luckily I can slew my telescope around inside the observatory with the roof closed. I put it down to equipment failure so I decided to shut down the Observatory computer (which cannot be restarted without me doing it manually) just incase something happened at the roof remained open. I might add the Observatory is 120km away in a dark sky location.
After closing down the computer it dawned on me that I hadn’t restarted Viking so Voyager wasn’t aware Viking wasn’t there, so it sent the commands thinking they had been received and implemented. I was looking for an option inside voyager to automatically start viking on connection to the setup but couldn’t find the option. Is it there? The only option I did find was using Viking Observing conditions, is this the same thing, but doesn’t actually open the windows application but still controls the K8055 board? I’m a little confused, if it does, what if I wanted to use an ASCOM based Observing conditions monitor, I wouldn’t be able to use viking then.
Some help needed trying to understand this. Thanks in advance.
Andrew
South Australia