http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/ Autostar Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:30:12 GMT autostaretx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2639 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2639 The message meant that you were updating a 495 Autostar (and, in so doing, it became a full 497 Autostar). The "safeload" procedure (hold Enter and ScrollUp Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:26:04 GMT Dom http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2638 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2638 I just updated in 1 shot from 1.2g about a month ago. I was able to go to 43 with no problems. 1 thing to note though - when mine was plugged into an etx125 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:00:38 GMT autostaretx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2637 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2637 ... Yes. My bought-with-1.1j 497 is happily running 43Eg, the current firmware for this model of Autostar ... One update -may- do it... (i know it's only one Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:04:39 GMT gearhead_36 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2636 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2636 I recently dug out my ds114 I purchased back in 99 that had been in the closet for many years. Installed is version 1.2g. From what I have read, it is one of Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:54:04 GMT astronomy288 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2635 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2635 There was logic to my madness. At first I checked import all from the www and it died with the URL error hence my posting to AutoStar(I own several Meade Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:12:43 GMT autostaretx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2634 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2634 ... First, i see it too, so it's not just you. Second, i -never- would've tried the MySky branch seeking your issue (this is the Autostar group... the MySk Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:40:11 GMT KC http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2633 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2633 Phil, I was having the same kind of issue with Meade's software. Fortunately someone in this forum suggested using the free version of Starpatch Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:47:13 GMT astronomy288 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2632 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2632 Hi Dick, Post install, select ONLY the MySky tours from the WWW import under file. Let it try to update and it then gives a bad or missing URL and exits. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:52:01 GMT autostaretx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2631 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2631 Could you give a few more details? When did you get the "bad or missing URL"? During an update? During the installation of ASu? What flavor of Autostar? What Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:41 GMT astronomy288 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2630 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2630 Is it just me or does anyone else get a bad or missing URL after trying to update on Vista Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:24:42 GMT autostaretx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2629 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2629 ...but you'd never know it... Although the *page* says it's ASU 5.2 (posted June 2, 2009) the actual -file- you get is AU2ver56.exe In other words: version Wed, 27 May 2009 01:55:08 GMT warpedcorp http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2628 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2628 I've asked this before, but really never got a definate answer. Has anyone in the group or is anyone in the group running XP64 or Vista64 successfully with Fri, 22 May 2009 23:27:28 GMT Nor http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2627 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2627 Well found out why the 497 was giving errors. The problem was in the RA unit. I took the cover off the RA and turned it on and the out put transistor to the Thu, 21 May 2009 16:28:13 GMT Nor http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2626 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2626 Hi Ray, No blue tooth here!! Thanks for the tip. I've got the mount in the house and am going to see if there is a jam up in the RA train or something. I'm Thu, 21 May 2009 13:38:53 GMT Ray Rankins http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2625 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Meade_Autostar/message/2625 You wouldn?t by any chance be using a Bluetooth connection to you scope in addition to the 497 Autostar, would you? There was a guy at our star party a week