BYN with Microsoft Remote Desktop

[hxpi]

I was testing remote access with my laptop using BYN and the interface stops "working" after selecting one of the live view modes, i.e. Frame and focus, drift, etc. I tried starting BYN before the remote session and during the remote session with the the same results.

 

What happens is when first staring up BYN everything works fine. The interface works and I'm able to connect to the dslr. When I go to live view, then the interface essentially "disconnects" from the screen. None of the interface is available and the remaining graphics of the interface are replaced under the mouse by other running program interface elements as the OS repaints the screen. It's as if the OS no longer recognizes the interface graphics for the program. The program is still running and is in the task bar but I am not able to bring it up onto the screen. I switched to SGP and everything works fine, live view and all. So my guess is it is the way the graphics are handled by BYN through RDP and for some reason stop working once live view is invoked. Perhaps it's something with my software environment so hopefully someone can assist me in figuring this out. Maybe this configuration just wasn't meant to work!

 

Here is the setup:

2013 15" rMPB running Win7 x64

Airport Express 802.11n wireless hub

IPad Air 2 running RDClient

 

The mount/camera/accessories are connected to the laptop via several USB extension cables. The laptop resides in another sheltered location away from the gear. The laptop and iPad connect to the Airport Express. Then the RDClient is started. Most applications behave well for the most part through RDClient. However there is one quirk with Stellarium where it cannot be started through RDClient but will run if started before connecting with RDClient. This is due to some conflict between remote access and OpenGL.

 

So I mainly use this setup as a solution to assist in aligning the mount and adjusting focus of the main and guide scopes. However, it is convenient to be able to have remote access for additional setup, review and monitoring.

 

Hopefully there is something that can be done to get BYN working with the RDClient. I really like the features in BYN but they are not available to me using remote access! If the logs are needed, let me know.

 

Thanks.

 

Ciao,

Mel

[admin]

This is odd, I use RDP all the time.  In fact that is the only way I have in my observatory because I have no monitors there, only a computer

[s3igell]

Perhaps you can start your 

 

Hopefully there is something that can be done to get BYN working with the RDClient. I really like the features in BYN but they are not available to me using remote access! If the logs are needed, let me know.

 

Perhaps you can start some of your own investigation by switching from an iPad iOS RDP App to one native to Windows (even if running under a VM on another OSX Laptop - as you are apparently an Apple house).

Then you can confirm whether the issue is one between BYN and RDP (something which Guylain might be able to address) or something between your MBP (is it BootCamp or Parallels?) and your iPad App (which Guylain surely is unable to address).

[hxpi]

Perhaps you can start your

 

 

 

Perhaps you can start some of your own investigation by switching from an iPad iOS RDP App to one native to Windows (even if running under a VM on another OSX Laptop - as you are apparently an Apple house).

Then you can confirm whether the issue is one between BYN and RDP (something which Guylain might be able to address) or something between your MBP (is it BootCamp or Parallels?) and your iPad App (which Guylain surely is unable to address).

I might be able to use another computer to remote into the laptop to see where the issue is. I do have Parallels on other computers and might try that. The laptop is running Windows native through Bootcamp. Certainly good options to further investigate on my own.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

Ciao,

Mel

[hxpi]

Well I tested the remote connection with Microsoft Remote Client on my iMac and everything worked! So I tried the remote connection with RDClient on my iPad and everything worked!! Don't know what could have caused the breakdown in functionality last time but all BYN functions are working perfectly now using RDClient. I'll keep an eye out for anything unusual and report back if it happens again.

 

Well anyway thanks for the assistance!

 

Ciao,

Mel