Hi,
I'm having a frustrating issue with the time setting. It seems that my mount and Ekos/INDI are fighting over what the right time is, and my mount always loses. These steps will reliably duplicate the issue:
1) Turn on mount, wait for GPS to lock. On hand controller, go to "Settings", "Set Time and Site". As I am in the US Eastern time zone with Daylight Savings time, I set the DST to "Y" and the UTC -300 minutes, because we're 5 hours behind UTC + 1 hour for DST, as instructed by the mount manual.
2) Start INDI on the Raspberry Pi; everything checks out
3) Start kstars, start Ekos, start INDI
At this point, I can verify that the mount hand controller still shows the correct time and correct offset from UTC.
4) In the INDI control panel, connect to the mount.
At this point, checking the hand controller shows that the offset from UTC is -240. The time still shows correct for local time, which is strange and bad, because now when I try to point to anything, it always points one hour further east than where it should. The only way to fix this is to disconnect INDI, change the UTC offset back to -300 and power cycle the mount.
This has been a problem for me where I had to trace down time configurations in many places - kstars (site location data), the Raspberry Pi, the mount, and I've gotten down to this. When I open the mount INDI config page and go to site management, it tells me the UTC time is an hour ahead of what it should be and the UTC offset is -4. It's impossible to set these directly it seems.
Anyway, I'm at my wit's end. I have attached a log file with my lat and long scrubbed. It's not very long. I've only started up, connected to the mount, waited a bit and then disconnected after seeing the UTC offset changed.
Other random config stuff:
I'm not using the INDI Web Manager. In the Ekos Profile Editor, I've selected "iOptron CEM60". The drivers on the Raspberry Pi are not the latest, but are not more than a month old. The telescope driver I'm using is: indi_ieq_telescope
Well that's all I can think of. Let me know if there's anything else I can provide. Thank you for any help.
Charles Wright