I am the proud owner of a venerable 8" Meade LX200 Classic running version 3.30L of the Meade Firmware which is the main telescope in my roll-off roof observatory. I'm presently looking to make everything a little more automated. Whilst Sky 6 software has a working park position, I have been unable to get the ASCOM Park command to work. The ASCOM driver support documentation says this is only available for version 3.34 of the firmware, yet the 'The Sky 6' drivers do it fine on my version 3.30L.
One of the things I'd ideally like to be able to do is leave the scope powered up using an AE Scope-sleeper dongle. To do this it makes sense to have the scope automatically adopt a park position at the end of every observing session. The problem I have is that I really want two park positions. One for closing the roof and a second park position for after the roof is closed.
Does anyone know if there is a software application that will let me have two different park positions and will work with my LX200? If not, can anyone help me with how I would write a script to do this and how on earth one actually executes a script?
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