claudevh wrote:So the "FTDI TTL-232R-5V" seems to become a "proved" cheap solution for people who are happy with a "wired connection" between the Merlin/Orion/Sky-Watcher and a PC, Mac, etc... or as a "replacement" solution when not in the field !
hillels wrote:Claude,
Yeah, I just wanted the wired cable as a backup solution. The cable is only $20 and with shipping, it came to only $23 in the US. There will also be a time in the future on a trip when my Nokia 770 fails, or it runs out of batteries, or there is too much bluetooth interference in an area... but my laptop is working fine. The wire also lets me practice with new versions of your software without using the slow Nokia, and offers a bigger screen,
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hillels wrote:This worked for me, but all I did was look at the dataspec sheet listed above and try to mirror what you had done with the other cables. Is this close jeremyp?
geraldcor wrote:p.s. I am using Easy Peasy 1.0 which an Ubuntu variant for netbooks.
Greg
this is very important to consider the order of the wires and not their colors who can vary from one cable to another !!!
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