ALNITAK Flip Flat not connecting

[Wayne Hixson]

My Alnitak Flip Flat won’t connect consistently, Have ato reboot the PC and sometimes it will work once. Throws a Cannot Open Serial Port ArgumentException. I’ve attached the Trace Log when I last tried this. I’ve discussed this with @dghent and he suspects it’s beacause I have 2 Optec deivces (als a focuser) that use the same serial port IDs. I thought that by disconnecting the USB serial cable to the focuser it would fix it. No luck.

[Dale Ghent]

Suggest you utilize the Alnitak ASCOM driver instead in this case. You can download it from here:

https://optec.us/resources/download/Alnitak/download.html

In NINA, you would connect to it under the ASCOM section in the flat device chooser instead of the built-in driver.

[Wayne Hixson]

Thanks Dale - seems to work fine

[Stefan B]

Removing version: 2.0 Beta (automated comment)