Hello everyone,

I have a few questions regarding kstars and the ekos iEQ driver.

First of all I have a rather noob question about the time settings in kstars. I setup my time site with the setup wizard, and noticed that it did not apply DST. I looked into the altitude and time settings, and noticed that my lat/long are correct, but the DST was set to --, and when I try to set it to yes, it gives me an error that the time site is read only and I need to create a new one. However the error seems to persist no matter how many I setup. Is there a correct operation procedure for getting the DST to stick? Once I manually correct the time, ekos then relays the correct information to my mount.

Second, when I launch ekos, and check the site settings on the INDI control panel for the iEQ mount, it shows my longitude as 272 degrees, my standard longitude is -87 degrees. Is that normal? Is it doing some sort 360 degree translation? I noticed that even with the correct time set, that while the longitude is set to 272 everything happens upside down, and backwards. After setting it manually in INDI control panel to -87 degrees HH:MM, it performs as normal. I've found myself having to do this every time despite saving the configuration. Is there another operating procedure to correct this that I need to be aware of in order to help keep both the time and longitude settings?

Thanks for any help, and sorry if these questions have been asked, I did a search and could not find anything that was exactly similar to what I am experiencing, outside of the FAQ on make sure your time site is correct.

--Miles

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