Cape Ealing

Below is the ‘design standard’ of the BlueMirror driver:

1.  It works in a simulator and ‘live’ mode.  In simuluator mode all works as in ‘live’ but there are no actual serial commands sent out via bluetooth.

2. It reports RA/Dec (right ascension and declination) coordinates when requested.  These are simpy a conversion of the Alt Az coords (which is actually what the mount ‘thinks’ in).

3.  

Using the ASCOM platform requires the driver to have certain mandatory capabilities and be able to handle various commands (even if to simply sat ‘not supported’).  The ASCOM documentation sets out their meaning in full.  But here is a short list of the so-called ‘Can Properties’ (more like ‘cannot properties’ for this simple driver): 
CanFindHome False
CanPark False
CanPulseGuide False
CanSetDeclinationRate False
CanSetGuideRates False
CanSetPark False
CanSetPierSide False
CanSetRightAscensionRate False
CanSetTracking True
CanSlew True
CanSlewltAz True
CanSlewAltAzAsync False
CanSlewAsync False
CanSync True
CanSyncAltAz True
CanUnPark False