Hi

I normally connect to my NEQ6 mount using EQMOD over bluetooth with Astroberry. This works OK but I have experienced the occasional random disconnection. I have decided therefore to go back to the good old reliable method of using a wired connection to the mount using USB to TTL conversion. I made up a cable using a FTDI chip a while back and it worked fine on the ASCOM based windows system I was using then. I now want to use the same cable on an INDI connected system using Astroberry. However it doesn't want to connect when I simply plug the cable in and try and connect the EQMOD mount. The default port setting is /dev/rfcomm0 and if I try to scan for other ports on the connection tab I get a message saying "no candidate ports found on the system for EQMOD connection". I notice however you get this message even if nothing is connected ! It may be therefore that the RPi is not sensing the connection at all and there is a physical problem with the cable. I seemed to remember when using the said cable with Ascom there was a FTDI driver that I needed to download.

Am I expecting too much to expect a connection simply by connecting the cable and trying to connect using the existing EQMOD Indi dirver in Astroberry ? Or is there a setting I am missing or another driver. ? The EQMOD Indi driver works ok using Bluetooth as the medium and I would have though this was more complex.

Thanks for any Info

Cheers
Ian

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