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Baader Steeldrive II won‘t connect

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Nice ! You got farther than I had expected already in that you have the rights to open the serial port and the focuser even says 'hi'.
I assume we now need to set the proper line ending, the spec wants \r\n , that is a carriage return and a line feed. And minicom can be told to use this in the menu.
When you go to the menu with Meta-Z in Mac (CTRL-A Z in Linux) you get a menu with ao. these two lines :
Add Carriage Ret...U
Add linefeed.......A
When you press U the setting is toggled, the menu exits and you get to see a line at the bottom briefly stating
Add carriage return ON
or
Add carriage return OFF
And similar for when you press A.
You want both carriage return and linefeed ON.
Then try again with
$BS GET VERSION
1 year 4 months ago #88039

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I did everything as suggested but after pressing enter still nothing happens. :-(
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Thismay warrant a chat with the device vendor (Baader).
You're using a regular terminal app, with the prescribed settings, and you see the welcome message, yet you cannot query the device.
Maybe they have ideas what to try next.
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1 year 4 months ago #88133

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Hello,
I am the developer of the SteelDrive II hardware.

From what I read, the device is working with TheSkyX, AstroImager and also via INDIGO.
So I suspect your terminal settings might not be correct yet.

In order to rule out a specific malfunction of the "GET VERSION" command, please try:
$BS STOP
We can be sure this must return
$BS OK
as it is a command necessary for the other drivers to work, which you have proven.

Also please make sure to update your device to the latest firmware:
www.baader-planetarium.com/de/downloads/...mware_march_2021.zip

best regards,
Roman
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1 year 4 months ago #88194

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Hi Roman,
thank you very much for chiming into this issue.
My Steeldrive has the latest firmware.

Just curious: Do you have the chance to try the INDI driver on Linux as this could also a MacOS related problem.

All the best,
Oli
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