What's new in SoundStepper 5.4.1.302
Nov 3, 2017
- Native ASCOM driver, for Telescope and Focuser, no more need LX200 emulation nor TCP/serial redirectors.
- Implemented some new commands in the protocol, to support the native ASCOM driver.
- Added the "Instant focus display", which shows the focuser position changes when SoundStepper is in background.
- Added a timer to effectively defocus controls on main form and allow user to control telescope with keyboard arrows.
New in SoundStepper 5.2 (Nov 24, 2014)
- New concept of park position for equatorial mounts, enabling to park at celestial pole without problems to recognize the correct position at startup.
- More indicators in main window (progress bar, pierside indicator).
- Many bug fixed.
New in SoundStepper 5.1 (Jul 17, 2013)
- "Pulse/direction" control option added, compatible with commercial drivers.
- New startup window, showing the previous state and all available options.
- Dead threads detection.
- Extra buffers insertion at high speeds, less catastrophic failures.
- Compatibility with Stellarium (changed angle formats from "documented dialect" to "real dialect").
- Many bug fixes.
New in SoundStepper 5.0 (Jul 17, 2013)
- Ability to control altazimuthal mounts.
- New keyboard interface, for more easy and precise control.
- Added altaz "sync" control.
- Motor threads control algorithms was rewrited.
- New configuration and test interfaces
- Added joystick interface
New in SoundStepper 4.0 (Jul 17, 2013)
- Modified the algorithms to use USB Audio devices, supporting DC operation, ensuring better control of motors and releasing the default computer audio output to normal use.
- Add control for up to 3 motors (RA, Dec and focuser).
- Added ability to control any type of equatorial mount, and the "sync", "go-to" and "flip" controls.
- Configuration screen, contain audio operation parameters, mount type and limits.
- Monitoring and compensating the audio sampling frequency variations, the systems become immune to this changes.
- The waveform became configurable to improve motor movement linearity, lowering wooble in low-reduction mounts.
- The screen texts was moved to .ini files, allowing easy translation to any western language.
- Done the first to English translation. The code was already modified for variable names and comments in English.
- Project was made available as "public domain" at Sourceforge.net.
- Implementation of the LX200 protocol, allowing the use of ASCOM driver to control and guide, retiring the obsolete parallel port.
- Autosave and autorecover last telescope and motor positions (crash recover).
- Re-elabored this documentation (migrated from README.TXT file to HTML).
New in SoundStepper 3.1 (Jul 17, 2013)
- Center and find controls added ("Control Box"), using keyboard arrows.
- Smooth motors acceleration and improved intuitiveness of the controls.
- Return interrupts are now permitted. Redone the project documentation.
New in SoundStepper 3.0 (Jul 17, 2013)
- Multi-threaded version, with a dedicated controller thread and another for the user interface.
- No longer audio gaps. Identical to version 2.0 user interface.