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Polar alignment - mount does not slew

For mounts, you can reverse West/East motion and this should be enough.
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1 year 8 months ago #84506

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Interesting observation! Good find!

Same here when being BELOW Polaris. Mount/driver crashes! Bummer!


On the other hand, when using the Mount Control from KStars/EKOS, the mount crosses the northern meridian (now above Polaris) without any issues in both directions. No crashes nor interruptions. But the behaviour of the arrow key is inverted! Meaning, I can use and hold the left button to cross the northern meridian, when I let go and press again the same direction button, the mount slews in the opposite direction, that is towards the meridian again. Very weird. Not sure if this is a feature or a bug ?!

I am using KStars (v3.5.9) from my MacBookPro and connect to the indiserver of the StarGO2 remotely.

BTW, note, that I have selected LX200 Classic... but once EKOS makes the connection to the indiserver on the StarGO2, it uses the native stargo2-telescope driver!

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Another test, using the arrow keys from the Avalon browser interface, no problem going back and forth!

With EKOS, it crashes immediately.

I am using the iNDIGO Control Panel to get more info...

"Unresponsive Dec axis."

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Enabling and disabling "Reverse Up/Down" or "Reverse Left/Right" has no effect on the arrow buttons in the Mount Control interface! The mount always moves in the same direction with the exact same status messages.

I will still need to test it for the PAA.
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1 year 8 months ago #84509

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Still no answer from Avalon.

There are similar posts and topics on the Avalon forum. Not a single reply or comment from Avalon. Just NOTHING!

Avalon has not replied to my recent emails, either.

This is a very unprofessional behaviour and creating a lot of concerns to me and others.
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I haven't heard from them since two months ago. They told me they were working on it...
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Maybe you could share your experience in the Avalon Forum:
www.avalon-instruments.com/forum/stargo2...ate-to-fix-bugs#1093
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