
Originally Posted by
Bob Denny
Clever! The driver for the Meade scopes (like all drivers) sets its timeouts (via calls to the helper) based on the characteristics of the particular model of scope. ACP has an option to push the date/time and lat/long to the scope at initial connect. If this is on, and the driver's timeout is too short, that will cause the problem. It's not the helper itself, it's the driver. The big question is "what changed?" to cause your setup to start having timeout issues.
If you're sure the date/time in the scope is good, you could try turning on "Inhibit ACP sending date/time and lat/long to scope" in Preferences, Telescope tab.