Hmm... The stellarmate "Initial setup" page at www.stellarmate.com/support/first-time-setup.html says: "When using the App for the first time, you are required to sign in to your stellarmate.com account. This is required in order for the app to download your licence and serial numbers necessary for the device registration. This is only performed once and requires active internet connection." Somewhat further down on the same page it is stated that "After scan is complete, the left side panel should contain a list of detected StellarMate. Click on the detected StellarMate controller. [...] Before the app can be used with the device, it (<- the device, I suppose -- not the app?) must be registered first. The registration information should be automatically filled in" So if I understand correctly, a device must be found *before* the registration key comes into play.

Regarding KStars, I don't remember exactly if I run a device scan before I closed KStars through VNC. But I'm pretty sure that I run some more scans after starting INDI through the web manager. Since KStars -- at least to my knowledge -- doesn't provide any network service by itself, I suppose INDI is what counts. (But I may be wrong here -- I'll try again scanning for my RPi with KStars running.)

Cheers --

Torsten

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