AlpacaDiscovery Class

public class AlpacaDiscovery : IDisposable

Public Class AlpacaDiscovery
	Implements IDisposable

public ref class AlpacaDiscovery : IDisposable

Inheritance

Object    AlpacaDiscovery

Implements

IDisposable

The discovery process is asynchronous and is initiated by the StartDiscovery(Int32, Int32, Int32, Double, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean) method. Clients can then either work synchronously by looping and periodically polling the DiscoveryComplete property or work asynchronously by handling the AlpacaDevicesUpdated and DiscoveryCompleted events while doing other work.

The StartDiscovery(Int32, Int32, Int32, Double, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean) method is used to set the character of the discovery e.g. the discovery duration and whether to search for IPv4 and/or IPv6 devices. After the specified discovery duration, the DiscoveryComplete event fires and the DiscoveryCompleted property returns True.

Once discovery is complete, .NET clients can retrieve details of discovered Alpaca devices and associated ASCOM interface devices through the GetAlpacaDevices and GetAscomDevices(String) methods. COM clients must use the GetAlpacaDevicesAsArrayList and GetAscomDevicesAsArrayList(String) properties because COM does not support the generic classes used in the GetAlpacaDevices and GetAscomDevices(String) methods.

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