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Option to disable parking

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I have an iOptron CEM25p and I can never get parking to work reliably.
Once or twice it has worked, but usually it doesn't and any time the mount attampts to park (like after a polar alignment) I have to be there poised over the stop button to prevent the mount from being driven into the tripod legs.

I'm starting to leave sessions running when I go to bed now, but I'm worried that at some point something may try to park the mount and it might spend hours grinding the gears as it smashes the mount into the tripod before I'd realise it had happened.

Would it be possible to add a "Disable Parking" option that would prevent a park command from ever being issued?

Or better yet an option to "Use Goto Home instead of park" as that does work properly?
4 years 3 months ago #46609

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With KStars 3.3.8 (and possibly 3.3.7 already) the option is there to have no parking after polar alignment in the KStars settings.


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4 years 3 months ago #46616

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Replied by Alex on topic Option to disable parking

Ah, thanks. I hadn't seen that one before.

Is that the only time that the mount would attempt to auto-park? Is so, then that's the only option I need.
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Yes, that’s the only one.
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