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My computer will not recognise my meade lpi camera

I purchased a brand new meade telescope from the USA several years ago but never managed to get the lpi camera to work!
I was informed that the laptop i was using was out of date as it did not recognise the camera after the software was installed on it.
I have recently purchased a new laptop with vista and i am having the same problems.
It tells me the lpi could not be found
Any ideas?

Anonymous May 11, 2010

the lpi is for the most part a web cam, if it is not recognized its possible the camera is inoperative. when it is plugged in is there a red light visible on the camera above the meade logo.
Anonymous Mar 26, 2014

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This is a known problem with VISTA--- works fine in XP--

However make sure you have the latest version of Autostar Suite and Envisage from the Meade web site--
http://www.meade.com/support/downloads.html

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