Ok, so I am answering my own question. I followed my own advice and went back and watched that tutorial. When he gets to the part of running his equipment profile in Ekos he makes a passing remark about starting it as remote instead of local (it is a checkbox in the profile edit box in Ekos) (note: he makes this remark because he went thru the procedure of starting the Indi Server - in the left side panel - before starting Kstars/Ekos). Both use the "localhost" because both are running on the same machine, but if you hover the mouse over those boxes it says, use "local" if you are starting the indi server from inside Kstars/Ekos and use "remote" if you are starting the Indi server from the web manager or other method outside of Kstars/Ekos. I have had the "local" box checked because I (reasonably or not) thought that my system was local as everything was connected to it right at the telescope, but I should have checked the "remote" box because the Indi Server is 'remote' from Kstars/Ekos. If I check the "remote" box and still leave the connection to "Local Host," then when I "Start" the profile in Ekos that question never comes up!

thanks,
Ron

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