PHD 2 V 2.6.1 Calibration

[SIDNEY CORMIER]

I can not get v 2.6.1 to calibrate, even when I press force calibrate. How do I get the program to calibrate?
Sid

[Bruce Waddington]

Hi Sid.  I don't quite know what you mean with the phrase 'press force calibrate.'  There are lots of ways to clear the calibration - open the Help doc, click on 'index', click on 'clear calibration', and it will take you to a description of two options.  A 3rd option is to click on the menu for Tools/Modify Calibration/Clear Calibration Data.  Any of these options requires that you be connected to your gear.

 

Let us know if this doesn't solve your problem.

 

Bruce

 

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[Andy Galasso]

Hi Sid,

Here are 3 different ways to get PHD2 to calibrate, all are equivalent, take your pick.

1. Click the brain button, select the Guiding tab, check "Clear mount calibration", click OK.  Calibration will be done next time you start guiding.

2. on the menu select Tools => Modify Calibration => Clear Calibration Data; click OK.  Calibration will be done next time you start guiding.

3. When you click the Begin Guiding button (the round cross-hairs icon), hold down the Shift key. When asked for confirmation click OK and calibration will start.

Andy

[SIDNEY CORMIER]

I know a lot more than I did when I first started fighting the problem with PHD 2.6.1 The mount (Celestron CGEM) connects, I can use the hand controller icon with direction keys to move the mount. Everything  lights up except the tools> modify calibration on that panel. On the brain>Advanced setup>guiding> clear mount calibration is the only item that is not lit up and clicking on it doesn’t work. I can not get PHD 2 connected to allow me to calibrate the guiding. I tried v 2.4 , 2.5 and 2.60 and none worked any better.

Any suggestions or ideas on fixing the problem will be appreciated.

Sid

[John Carter]

I think what you mean by forcing calibration is to hold down the Shift key when clicking on the Guide button.

Is that right?

The first thing you have to do is click on the Loop button (next to the Connect button, second from left) and select a star. Then you can click on the Guide button to start guiding, and it will automatically start a calibration procedure IF it is the first time starting a guide after opening PHD2. Otherwise, to force a calibration hold down the Shift key and then tap on the Guide button.

[Bruce Waddington]

That sounds like PHD2 isn't connected to the mount.  Assuming you've followed all the steps in the 'Equipment Connection' part of the Help/Basic use, you'll have to send us your debug log file so we can see where you're going wrong.  In the equipment connection dialog for PHD2, you should do a 'connect all' after specifying how you want to connect to your mount.  We advise using the ASCOM driver for the Celestron mount.  The "hand controller" you're talking about sounds like something that's part of the Celestron software, not part of PHD2.  

 

http://openphdguiding.org/getting-help/

 

Good luck,

Bruce

 

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From: open-phd...@googlegroups.com [mailto:open-phd...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of SIDNEY CORMIER

Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 4:15 PM
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[peter wolsley]

Sidney,

I have a CGEM...here is how I have my mount connected to PHD2

1)I use an RS-232C to USB2 module to connect the mount to my computer.  The RS-232C connection is actually a special cable that has a 9-pin connector on one end and a small telephone style jack on the other end that plugs into the bottom of the handcontroller.

2)I use the NexRemote.exe app to connect my computer to the mount.  On the Nexremote.exe set-up screen I have the PC Port set to COM4 which is the port that my USB to RS-232C has attached itself to.  I also have the Virtual Port set to COM6...this is needed to connect to ASCOM.  I can align, add calibration stars and polar align using ASPA with this set-up.

3)I have the ASCOM platform V6 installed on my computer and I have the latest Celestron ASCOM driver installed.

4)When I call up PHD2 and select the "Connect Equipment" feature I have the mount selected as "Celestron Telescope Driver (ASCOM)".

5)On that same screen you should notice a small icon that looks like a wrench and a screwdriver.  Click on this icon before you try to connect.  This gives you access to the ASCOM driver set-up utility.  On this ASCOM utility screen, at the top, you should see an item called COM Port.  This needs to be set to the Virtual Com port you selected on your NexRemote.exe program. In my case this would be COM6.

6)Click ok on this screen to close it and then you should click the connect button on the "Connect Equipment" screen.  Your mount should now be connected to PHD2 via your mount's ASCOM driver.

The ASCOM driver and NexRemote will NOT share the Hardware COM Port.  That's why NexRemote has the Virtual Com port...it gives you the ability to have both connected.  In my case, it is possible to have the ASCOM driver connect directly to COM4 but you cannot have NexRemote running.

Hopefully in all of this there is something that helps you...Good Luck

Peter