Remote control

Um, mine works fine out of the box.

Um, it's, you know, fairly new, but the, uh, the remote control that came with it doesn't appear to work.

I'm not really sure why.

Um, I don't know, you know, I'm thinking about this now, uh, I wonder if it could be because I had the autofocuser plugged into the computer, like, you know, into Ascom.

Maybe when you have it set up an ASCOM, it won't even let you use the remote control.

That's possible.

I'll have to test that theory out by just running power to it next time and seeing if I'm able to use the remote because the remote would be super handy for when you're doing the donut thing, backing it out, you know, with the focus because it's got fast and slow zoom in, zoom out buttons for your focuser.

Now,

are we talking about the old style with the dial and then rabbit ears kind of remote control?

This is CRT vintage late 1950s, early 60s, but really the first generation of remote controls.

My grandma and her friend walked out of the kitchen, and I was compelled by a force much greater than I to grab that remote and to touch that button, and I moved it.

And I'm young.

Now, the new remote is going to be basically the same design as the other one, as the previous one, but it's going to have, uh, a major enhancement.

It's going to have precision Find My capabilities.

Now, you might say, "I thought the remote already had that." Well, kind of, sort of, right? So it had the ability to be found approximately, and you could get guidance to its location within a nearby area as you moved closer to it, you know, the, the Remote app on your iPhone, th-those kinds of thing.

But now it's gonna be able to be found, I think, in the Find My app and precisely, like three feet to the left, something like that, as long as you have a phone that's compatible with that.

So it's gotta be pretty much the A seventeen-- uh, the, yeah, A seventeen, the iPhone 17 series, excluding the iPhone 17e, and then, of course, the iPhone Duo.

Ken Ober.

He did Remote Control.

Is that what you're thinking of?

Yep.

You go for tip of the day.

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right, this is a boomer tip kind of for people that use remote controls, infrared remote controls for your TV and you don't use a bot to control it like I do.

Um, when you're clicking, I do have one in my bedroom and it's a pain in the ass.

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe.

So I mean, I assume it's, like, just remote controlled, so there's an operator kind of moving it back and forth as it's-

Yeah, so they, this version is remotely operated with an Xbox controller somewhere.

Mm-hmm.