The system now almost works.

In my tests I had KStars set up to provide Time and Location information to the devices.

After setting up and aligning the mount, everything seemed to be OK. Tracking was working fine.
Parking also seemed to work OK.
However, after I did an UnPark, the scope alignment was screwed up. Mount longitude was 000 00' 00'' while latitude and time was OK.

After renewing the alignment and setting mount longitude, all was fine again.
Repeated the above steps a few times with similar results.

It appears thus that KStars at least sometimes is not properly setting the mount longitude - or maybe the UnPark command is in some way interfering with the scope alignment parameters.

During the course of these tests KStars-bleeding crashed a couple times on startup, which I am guessing is an unrelated issue.

Bruno

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