Add Pulse Guiding to LX200 Classic Driver over Serial Port

[windows2000bug]

Currently, the Indi driver does not support Pulse Guiding over the RS232 port like ASCOM does for the LX200 Classic telescope mount. I spoke to an ASCOM developer and looked at the code and all they are doing for the classic is telling the scope todo to the following:

Direction = North, East, South, or West (N,E,S,W in command)

1. Slew to <direction> ( :M<direction># )
2. delay(<pulseDuration>*10) //delay for the pulse duration in MS
3. Stop Slewing to ( :Q<direction># )

I have a Hardware work around, though not everyone knows how to solder. I am parsing out the ":Mg" command that is being sent to the scope that the LX200 ignores via an Arduino and some other hardware.

[knro]

This is what manual pulse guiding is. Not sure how reliable this is. Did you implement it in your branch and tested it out with guiding?

[windows2000bug]

This is what manual pulse guiding is. Not sure how reliable this is. Did you implement it in your branch and tested it out with guiding?

I am not a developer by any means, just a hobbiest who knows enough to be dangerous :)

I don't have any branches for Indi nor the LX200 driver. I just created a small prototype HW to hijack the :Mg command that is being sent to the LX200 Classic.

I am hoping someone that understands the IndiCode as well as more experience as a developer to implement this.