Turning on and off scopedome power relays during startup and shutdown

[James Pierce]

Edit: Hopefully this doesn't drag up an old thread, but I wanted to leave a breadcrumb and put in what I've learned for anyone else with a ScopeDome.

There are two ways to work with the dome... if you're in javascript etc then you can do things like this...

var dome = new ActiveXObject(“ASCOM.ScopeDomeUSBDome.DomeLS”); 

humidity = dome.commandString(“Humidity_Humidity_Sensor”);
temp = dome.commandString(“Temperature_Humidity_Sensor”);

If you are doing it on the command line then you can do this...

LightCtrlProgram      C:\ScopeDome\Driver_LS\ASCOM.ScopeDomeUSBDome.exe
LightOnCommand        Rel_Light_On      ; Command string to turn light on and set/change brightness
LightOffCommand       Rel_Light_Off     ; Command string to turn light off

In a command window you just do

C:\ScopeDome\Driver_LS\ASCOM.ScopeDomeUSBDome.exe ?

To get a full list of commands ... some will report back values, some will turn on and off relays etc.