Re: [Utah-astronomy] Sky Safari Plus 4 Sale
For less than $10 on ebay I got one of these and put it in my Argo Navis, works a treat with my android tablet and phone both running SkySafari using the Meade GOTO protocol: CRIUS MWC Multiwii Bluetooth Module Parameter Configurator Module/Adapter I had to track down the pin-outs to get the UART TX/RX before its converted to RS232 serial. I assume the Orion has a serial connector so it should be possible with that as well and you'll have to configure the module for baud rate etc. I can help you with both if you need it, otherwise good luck! Cheers David
I seem to be reading a lot that Android has an easier time with this. IOS versions of SkySafari do not use Bluetooth because IOS does not allow direct access to BT devices. So the connection is a bit more complicated having to connect over an ad hoc wifi network. I am pondering options. Thanks for the offer of help. I may ping you off list. On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Naz_David George-Kennedy <naz_david@msn.com> wrote:
For less than $10 on ebay I got one of these and put it in my Argo Navis, works a treat with my android tablet and phone both running SkySafari using the Meade GOTO protocol: CRIUS MWC Multiwii Bluetooth Module Parameter Configurator Module/Adapter I had to track down the pin-outs to get the UART TX/RX before its converted to RS232 serial. I assume the Orion has a serial connector so it should be possible with that as well and you'll have to configure the module for baud rate etc. I can help you with both if you need it, otherwise good luck! Cheers David _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
This one seems to work with with ios stuff - esp8266 uart to wifi On 2015-10-18 19:45, Joel Stucki wrote:
I seem to be reading a lot that Android has an easier time with this. IOS versions of SkySafari do not use Bluetooth because IOS does not allow direct access to BT devices. So the connection is a bit more complicated having to connect over an ad hoc wifi network. I am pondering options. Thanks for the offer of help. I may ping you off list.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Naz_David George-Kennedy <naz_david@???> wrote:
That’s pretty interesting—I’m going to have to take a look at it. I’ve been working on building one using an arduino, but I have some debugging to do in my code…the plan was to make it small enough that it’d fit in my eyepiece case—this looks even simpler than that. I did one with a Raspberry Pi, but it’s overkill. Although I was thinking of using an rPi and one of the new fangled touchscreens available and have a scope mounted astro computer using Stellarium or something like that... Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh@holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin
On Oct 18, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Naz, David and Alex <naz_david@msn.com> wrote:
This one seems to work with with ios stuff - esp8266 uart to wifi On 2015-10-18 19:45, Joel Stucki wrote:
I seem to be reading a lot that Android has an easier time with this. IOS versions of SkySafari do not use Bluetooth because IOS does not allow direct access to BT devices. So the connection is a bit more complicated having to connect over an ad hoc wifi network. I am pondering options. Thanks for the offer of help. I may ping you off list.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Naz_David George-Kennedy <naz_david@???> wrote:
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