John,

I installed the DDW ASCOM drivers and I'm able to control the dome with ASCOM Dome Control program. ASCOM program reguires that both dome and mount (by ASCOM driver) are connected with it. Then you are able to slave the dome to mount. Makes sense.

BUT when I try to connect with CCDAP, it fails when it should make the connection to dome via ASCOM driver (see attachment). I have tried not to start ASCOM dome control program before CCDAP. Now CCDAP connects but no dome slaving to mount appears. If I keep ASCOM dome control program active while starting CCDAP and connecting, CCDAP connection to dome ASCOM drivers fails.

What to do and how others have made this to work?

-Pete

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To answer to my own question, I was able to make things work using POTH for telescope and dome control. POTH can be active while using CCDAP and connecting to all devices.

-Pete

Nice work, Pete. That wouldn't have immediately occurred to me.