My most recent experiences with KStars 3.5.4 have given me encouragement after several hiccups over the last year. I noticed in most recent updates (Astroberry) some significant further updates to the RPi kernel software packages. My first ‘hiccups’ arrived when the major kernel update from 4.19 to 5.4 arrived a year ago, but I’m hoping the software has settled now.
After recent sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade of two installations, I have EQDirect cable operation of my AZ-EQ5 and AZ-GTi mounts once again. And (fingers crossed for clear skies tonight) the serial interface clashes between the mounts and my Pegasus Pocket Power Box also seem to have settled themselves.
By the way I always use sudo apt full-upgrade these days just in case…….

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