Overview

Pre-production release of the installer, version v1.2.

Audience

This release is provided as initial official release, validated against pre-production samples.

A new communication port option, "Auto", is available in the properties dialog. This option makes the driver attempt to find a serial device that succeeds the RA/DEC handshake, and use it.
Longitude, latitude and elevation in the properties dialog can be entered as a decimal number using the current system locale, or as a degrees/minutes/second integer triple.
Fixed incorrect generic driver description in TheSkyX driver panel.
Fixed driver properties dialog failing to open in Windows 7 US.
Fixed error message appearing when selecting no communication port in properties dialog.
Fixed location in driver profile updating (though not persisting) even when the properties dialog was cancelled.
Fixed trace option not disabling log output when unchecked in properties dialog.

Fixed go-to missing target by an unexpectedly large distance, caused by not stopping axis when changing rate.
Fixed reversed debug log of movement direction for North/South, and changed it to Pole/Equator directions.
Fixed MoveAxis action always moving at max speed, caused by incorrectly sending speed after direction.
There is now a link to the github releases in the driver properties dialog.
Fixed authorship and copyright information in the driver library.
Fixed some FxCop analyzer findings.

There are several similar conformance errors detected by the checker when setting target coordinates. The mount has a granularity of 1 arcsecond in declination but 15 arcseconds in right ascension. Tests involving right ascension set/get therefore may fail.
The firmware of the mount has a bug that prevents safe use of its go-to feature. The driver works around this issue by executing the go-to procedure itself. However, the speed at which the different slew rates rotate is not precisely controlled yet, and there is no intermediate slew rate between the max rate and the find rate. Therefore, the duration of a go-to can seem relatively long compared to other go-to mounts.
Under TheSkyX, it happens sometimes that the planetarium software requests RA/DEC position at a very high rate. With logs enabled, there is a performance impact that is visible in the software because of the induced serial communications. This issue was reported to Software Bisque in the past, but does not seem systematic.