Second and subsequent Connections to the telescope driver now no longer trigger resetting the Guide rate and precision. It's assumed they are already set correctly.

Meade.net/ConnectionInfo.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+namespace ASCOM.Meade.net
+{
+    public class ConnectionInfo
+    {
+        public int Connections { get; set; }
+        public int SameDevice { get; set; }
+    }
+}

Meade.net/Meade.net.csproj

@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Compile Include="ClassFactory.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="ConnectionInfo.cs" />
     <Compile Include="frmMain.cs">
       <SubType>Form</SubType>
     </Compile>

Meade.net/SharedResources.cs

@@ -260,12 +260,15 @@ namespace ASCOM.Meade.net
         /// </summary>
         private static readonly Dictionary<string, DeviceHardware> _connectedDevices = new Dictionary<string, DeviceHardware>();
 
+        private static readonly Dictionary<string, DeviceHardware> _connectedDeviceIds = new Dictionary<string, DeviceHardware>();
+
+
         /// <summary>
         /// This is called in the driver Connect(true) property,
         /// it add the device id to the list of devices if it's not there and increments the device count.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="deviceId"></param>
-        public static void Connect(string deviceId)
+        public static ConnectionInfo Connect(string deviceId, string driverId)
         {
             lock (LockObject)
             {
@@ -273,6 +276,10 @@ namespace ASCOM.Meade.net
                     _connectedDevices.Add(deviceId, new DeviceHardware());
                 _connectedDevices[deviceId].Count++; // increment the value
 
+                if (!_connectedDeviceIds.ContainsKey(driverId))
+                    _connectedDeviceIds.Add(driverId, new DeviceHardware());
+                _connectedDeviceIds[driverId].Count++; // increment the value
+
                 if (deviceId == "Serial")
                 {
                     if (_connectedDevices[deviceId].Count == 1)
@@ -292,10 +299,16 @@ namespace ASCOM.Meade.net
                         FirmwareVersion = SendString(":GVN#");
                     }
                 }
+
+                return new ConnectionInfo
+                {
+                    Connections = _connectedDevices[deviceId].Count,
+                    SameDevice = _connectedDeviceIds[driverId].Count
+                };
             }
         }
 
-        public static void Disconnect(string deviceId)
+        public static void Disconnect(string deviceId, string driverId)
         {
             lock (LockObject)
             {
@@ -311,6 +324,11 @@ namespace ASCOM.Meade.net
                         }
                     }
                 }
+
+                if (_connectedDeviceIds.ContainsKey(driverId))
+                {
+                    _connectedDeviceIds[driverId].Count--;
+                }
             }
         }
 

Meade.net/Wrapper/SharedResourcesWrapper.cs

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ namespace ASCOM.Meade.net.Wrapper
 {
     public interface ISharedResourcesWrapper
     {
-        void Connect(string deviceId);
-        void Disconnect(string deviceId);
+        ConnectionInfo Connect(string deviceId, string driverId);
+        void Disconnect(string deviceId, string driverId);
 
         string ProductName { get; }
 
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ namespace ASCOM.Meade.net.Wrapper
 
     public class SharedResourcesWrapper : ISharedResourcesWrapper
     {
-        public void Connect(string deviceId)
+        public ConnectionInfo Connect(string deviceId, string driverId)
         {
-            SharedResources.Connect( deviceId);
+            return SharedResources.Connect(deviceId, driverId);
         }
 
-        public void Disconnect(string deviceId)
+        public void Disconnect(string deviceId, string driverId)
         {
-            SharedResources.Disconnect(deviceId);
+            SharedResources.Disconnect(deviceId, driverId);
         }
 
         public string ProductName => SharedResources.ProductName;