Hi everyone,

It must have been a few years since my last post here. Meanwhile I've moved twice and now we have finally moved to our freshly constructed house.
All that time have been using the G41 with great satisfaction doing some variable star work (leading to server IBVS publications)
Anyway, today I cheched the Gemini website and saw that my firmware on the mount is hopelessly outdated. I am still running v2.63a.
I tried to upgrade the software but:
- Pulsar 2.19 could connect to the mount, put the mount in upgrade mode and then (with the keypad showin the mount was in upgrade mode) saying the mount was no longer in upgrade mode. Restarting mount/Pc ... nothing helped. Using Pulsar 2.16 and spending about an hour of trying I was able to get it out of upgrade mode .. so is there a solution to this of am I doing something wrong ?
- I wanted to try the ascom driver ... I installed platform 5.5, but the ascom driver setup keeps telling me I do not have platform 5 installed ?

Does anybody knows what was corrected between v2.63 and 2.69 ?

kind regards

Maarten

Hi Maarten

This ASCOM driver problem keeps happening and the only thing I can found is this. In the setup the following code is in the file

Result := FALSE; // Assume failure
try // Will catch all errors including missing reg data
H := CreateOLEObject('DriverHelper.Util'); // Assure both are available
H2 := CreateOleObject('DriverHelper2.Util');
if ((H2.PlatformVersion >= 5.0) and (H2.PlatformVersion < 6.0)) then
Result := TRUE;
except
end;
if(not Result) then
MsgBox('The ASCOM Platform 5 is required for this driver.', mbInformation, MB_OK);
end;

Can you check the version number of the DriverHelper.Util and DriverHelper2.Util because this is the only reason why that message would appear.

Look forward to reply

Kind Regards
Paul Kitching

Hi,

Both are helper.dll and helper2.dll are 5.1.0.0
If I get it correctly I will first have to upgrade the Pulsar to 2.69 before the driver can be used ?

Kind regards,