GILLARD
GILLARD replied to the topic 'AZ/EQ 6 connected to Mac with USB serial cable not responding' in the forum. 7 years ago

knro wrote:

[...] So now what happens when the mount receives RA/DE coords? Does it automatically switch to EQ Mode? or does it simply convert those to Alt/Az and remain in Alt/Az mode? That I don't know.
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EDIT: Looks like the synscan can be commanded to track in EQ or Alt/Az modes, but the current Synscan mount does not change the mode so it should remain as is.

So, if I understand well, if I set the hand controller to AZ mode before I connect my computer to the mount with the indi_synscan driver, the mount will still be configured in AZ mode.

I will check, the preliminary test I have done show me the mount was doing weird movement : the dec axis, with correspond to the Alt axis in AZ mode almost did a 360 degreee turn ... which would highly compromise my instrumentation if this kind of motion is repeated with the instrument onto the mount. On the other hand, I do not really remember if, at that time, the hand controller was in AZ or EQ ... I think I did not touch at all the hand controller and I can not say if it could remember previous setting at the mount start up.

Is their a way, with INDI command, to check some mount properties or configuration, like getting a dump of the mount (i.e. not something related with the INDI driver properties, but really getting the statues of the mount itself -> like reading the mount register and deduce its actual configuration).

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