Hello,
Thanks for answering me!
On my laptop linux the indi_skywatcherAltAzMount driver crashes immediately when the serial connection is established at my side too. It has INDI Library: 1.8.4. I have opened a topic about it first here:
indilib.org/forum/mounts/6457-indi-skywa...-fails-to-start.html
I also have a Raspberry PI, on that I have INDI Library: 1.8.3 which does not crash on serial connection, but has this strange "mirrored position" problem.
I have also tried to connect to my mount through WiFi using the SkyWatcher WiFi dongle, but that fails to connect. I have opened a topic about that too:
indilib.org/forum/mounts/6467-indi-skywa...andshake-failed.html
It seems to me that the driver tries to handle the wireless connection since I see a good attempt to handshake, but somehow it does not go well.
I have also cloned out and compiled the github indi code on the PI, I got the same result.
I have also tried the indi_skywatcherAltAzSimple but it also crashes on serial connect, this time it does also on the PI, and the fresh github version too. Trying to connect the indi_skywatcherAltAzSimple wireless I got the same handshake failure.
It is rather hard for a newcomer to decide which driver to use. Since the indi_skywatcherAltAzMount has at least a documentation page with basic setup instruction, and I had at least partial success with it, it sounded reasonable for me to suppose that this is the up-to-date one.
I have found nothing about the indi_skywatcherAltAzSimple driver and I got nothing but crash.
I have found a one and a half year old thread about successfully using the AZ GTi mount with the eqmod driver, so I have tried that too. It is kinda works, but only wireless. The eqmod driver does not handle the connected RX-TX line on the Alt-Az mounts, and goes panic hearing back its own chatter....
But it requires to setup the mount in equatorial position which does not work so well with the Virtuoso mount.
I also have a 250 mm Dobsonian mount, my real goal is to use that with INDI. For that it is absolutely impossible to use it in equatorial position, so I need an AltAz solution.
I have also tried the synscan driver, which again, kinda works, but it has some pointing inaccuracy problem. I can see the mount's coordinates on the INDI control panel and also on the EKOS control panel. Strangely enough the two are differing. Not much but about 2 degrees. From here nothing is really works. KStars shows the mount position in the correct place, but when I try to center on the mount position it centers somewhat offset. When I ask to goto to a position, it goes near but again the same offset. It is not the inaccuracy of the mount or some kind of poor alignment, the mount position marker in Kstars is quite accurately shows the mount's actual position. I have also opened a thread about that:
indilib.org/forum/mounts/6444-az-synscan...-explain-please.html
I still do not understand what is the difference between the INDI Control panel and the EKOS control panel and how can they show different coordinates? I would think that EKOS gets the coordinates from INDI so it should copy that precisely. Maybe it is some numerical error during calculating back ad force between RA/DEC and ALT/AZ coordiantes?
Zoltán