======== SkyWalker Beta Firmware 0.11.002 Release Notes (10-Sep-2005) =========

========== New features/changes in SkyWalker firmware 0.11.002 ================

Summary of new features
-----------------------
- A separate (view) velocity is provided for AutoGuider input.  The velocity
  defaults to 0.5X sidereal however it is changeable from the Instrument
  Display or via ATCL command (details below).
- AutoGuider input is ignored when opposite AutoGuider inputs are active.  This
  has the important advantage of defeating the problem with late model SBIG
  cameras where they can cause run-away AutoGuider motion when powered off.
- In support of European convention the following additional formats are
  accpeted:
  - Dates with '-' as a delimiter are allowed (e.g. "2-14-06")
  - Coordinate strings with ',' as delimiter for decimal minutes or seconds
    are allowed (e.g. "12:34:56,7")

New ATCL commands
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- SetAutoGuiderVel (KSvg): allows the velocity that AutoGuider-initiated motion
  works at to be set.  The expectable range is between 1.0000asec/sec min and
  2.0000deg/sec or VelMaxX/Y max (whichever is lower).
- GetAutoGuiderVel (KGvg): returns the present velocity that AutoGuider-
  initiated motion works at.
- GetDefaultsForMountLastSet (NGdm): returns a string representing the mount
  name/type for which the default settings were *last* applied.

New Instrument Display features
-------------------------------
- Added the Settings/Control/HandPaddle&AG/ViewMotionSettings/SetAutoGuiderVel
  display page so that user can set the velocity that AutoGuider motion uses
  to something other than the default 0.5X sidereal.

================= Bug fixes in SkyWalker firmware 0.11.002 ====================

- Fixed a bug where opposite button press, from the Handpaddle would result in
  axial velocity slowly ramping up to 2.0deg/sec rather than "holding" at the
  current velocity as it should.  Note this would not happen for Slew or when
  TrackRate was Drift.
- Fixed a bug where occasionally there was a Client Syntax error with an
  unknown command that was shown as 3 characters rather than the standard 4
  characters for all ATCL commands.  SkyWalker firmware was loosing a communi-
  cations character from time to time.  Occasionally, this bug caused down-
  stream problems (e.g. ASCOM clients not getting a reply and disconnecting).

============== Known problems with current SkyWalker firmware =================

- There is a small "blip" in Dec when alignment is completed.  There should be
  no un-commanded motion in either axis when alignment completes.
- If an illegal value is entered in the Instrument Display Edit Box, an
  unfriendly "Client Syntax Error" can result when a more friendly error
  describing the illegality of the value should be presented.
- Some messages are reported multiple times rather than just once.  For
  example, when alignment is voided it is reported 3 times.

======= List of features that were in SkyGuide missing in S-Box ===============
	(more/less in order they will be ported)

- PEC
- Objects other than Stars/BrightProper
- AutoCalibration GoTo
- HighDrive functionality
- LX200-emulation
- Alignment for other than Polar-aligned instruments
- Polar alignment calibration (PolarAlignRefine)
- Automatic selection of suggested optimal final alignment stars (not a
  SkyGuide feature)
- TrackingCorrection diagnostics available from
  Status/Diagnostics/TrackingCorrection Menu Page