MYSQM Ascom Safety Monitor

[bratislav]

Hello, I am new to this forum, but have built several projects before.

My intention is to use mySQM+ as safety device first and foremost. To that effect I intend to replace corrosion prone PCB-track based analog rain detector with Hydreon RG-11 which doesn't require frequent adjustments and is likely to be far more durable and reliable. It should be relatively straightforward to wire RG-11 relay output directly to D0 input where analog sensor is connected (and possibly wire in some arbitrary voltage to A0 if needed). I don't care about how much rain there is - ANY rain is bad and should close my observatory immediately.
The same goes for wind, and clouds too (it may seem redundant to monitor both clouds and rain, but cloud monitoring may not be as reliable as it is subject to cloud modeling, ambient temperatures etc).

What I think would be useful is adding a new Rule where there should be combined all 3 main threats to imaging - wind, clouds AND rain.

So, please consider either including this new Rule to existing code, or release the source for existing revision 6 of Safety Monitor. My coding days are long gone, I have never used .Net or C# but I think I should manage. I started to pull my hair out before realized there is no source code for Revision 6 (which includes Rules) ! )

If there can't be more than two conditions that must be monitored, please consider just adding Rule 3 with Rain and Wind. Lux values are generally useless (I often image when there is Moon present, using Ultra Narrow band (Line) filters).

[bratislav]

What I think would be useful is adding a new Rule where there should be combined all 3 main threats to imaging - wind, clouds AND rain.

Of course, what I meant is on all conditions should be logical OR applied (that is if any of those three is TRUE, Unsafe condition is returned)

[brownrb]

Hi
What is your level of programming skill - visual studio and c++ ?