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Behaviour differ between SM APP and SM OS

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Hello,
I am a little confused on how and where ask for that. Maybe is it me not understanding the way the thing works.
I am driving a PI5 from an android tablet.
Most of the time, I use RealVNC to access Ekos from Kstars. Today I wanted to do some testings to check my setup.
From the mount tab, I unparked the mount, opened the mount controller and made it goto the sun (cap on the lens, and anyway the sky is coudy and the sun is behind the building).
The mount slewed towards the targetted position.
Parked the mount and checked that it was correctly done.
I then correctly disconnected from Ekos, closed Kstars and VNC.
I started Ekos from the SM APP, clicked on the mount control icon, unparked it and targetted the sun.
But then, it slewed in the opposite position from where it should have.
Did someone else already face this ?
What could I done wrong ?
Rgrds,
Last edit: 1 month 2 weeks ago by Jean-Luc.
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Replying to myself, should it be useful for others : it seems mixing controllers - hand controller, synscan app and sm app - is not a good idea.
But the app is getting better and better, and so I must not switch between one and another.
Still a few hickups with the moves from the SM app, but much more stable than before.
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I also have noticed that there are differences between App & OS. An example is how you can set presets in Capture module. Also the Mount has options to park & set a home position.
Clear Skies,
Pramod


My kit: SW 130PDS on a HEQ5 Pro mount, ZWO ASI533mc Pro, 30mm guidescope with ASI120mm mini, managed using Kstars/Ekos, RPi with Stellarmate OS, ASI224mc, bits and bobs for visual observations.
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Last time I was totally unable to use goto and other functions from the tablet app, and had to use vnc instead.
Whether or not it was because of previous rPI updater update is the question.
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Hello,
Did you make sure, the reverse directions were toggled off?
If you face any issues in the SM APP or any issues that you are stuck at, you can also create a ticket on stellarmate.com to get help from SM support and fix your issue immediately.
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Hello Salman,
Yes, they were. However, taping either the Park or Goto icon (I don't remember for sure about Search) did nothing.
As I wrote in my post, there was a PI update before, and there were a lot in the following days.
The following time I used it, a couple of days after, the commands did work fine again.
I did just mention this and, of course, did not open a ticket because all worked then.
But the fact is, that at the time it happened, the commands from within the SM APP did not work, but all workd fine using RealVNC.
Rgrds,
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