The Sky-Watcher/Orion SynScan hand controller is now available as an app on your smart device. Use this app to control the AZ GTi mount or other Sky-Watcher/Orion telescope mounts fitted with a SynScan Wi-Fi adapter.
This is the Pro version of the SynScan app and is suited for expert users using equatorial mounts.
This app supports ASCOM on Windows PC. Driver can be downloaded from www.skywatcher.com
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needs improvement
Can’t live without this app with the wifi adaptor - however it doesn’t work well on my iPhone 12. The screen won’t stay on, the buttons don’t have text readable sometimes. It’s hard to navigate and looks very outdated - please update!
Am having trouble with “Go To”
Pretty good app to have but there is no manual to be found. This is ok for most things just during a “Go to” there should be a feature to “lock on” to an object once you have centred it in the scope. There is a button which seems to promise to do that but it is greyed out and does nothing.
Cable wrap and design flaws
The App seems to completely disregard the need to prevent cable wrap on az-eq mounts and will happily rotate 180-360 degrees or more from its home position when slewing to new targets. The SynScan handsets don’t have this problem.
If your ios handset goes into sleep mode or interrupted by another app (eg messaging), other devices such as SkySafari get disconnected and lose alignment.
Developers should consider writing a background service that runs in background on ios, maintains connection and continues picking up auxillary encoders whilst in background.
Great App! Could be improved
Could be improved by adding the same functionality as the handset. Ie: same data bases available. Include SAO, HD, Tycho databases.