Hi Alan,

First, many thanks for the great job you are doing by developing this driver.

I am presently doing tests of a myFocuserPro2 connected to a RPI3B+/stellarmate 1.4.4 as server, the client being Kstars/Ekos on a laptop running Linux Mint (~ Ubuntu). The results are very good. I just would like to report a strange behaviour when playing with the joystick.
As I already use a joystick to manually move my HEQ5Pro mount, I thought to dedicate 3 of the free remaining buttons to also control the focuser. The buttons (in, out and abort) react reliably but the amount of steps when I push them, in or out, is "huge" and not constant, variyng roughly between 60 and 80 (~ 2 times my CFZ !). As it now stands, the joystick feature appears to be not really usable.

If I change from full step to 1/4 step mode, the number of step is multiplied by 4, which makes me to suspect the command sent is a time pulse and not a number of steps. Am I right ?

I didn't find any place in the INDI driver menus or Ekos/focus where to manage this parameter. Maybe the joystick support is a part of the driver development which is not yet finalised.

Thanks for bringing me some light.

Pierre-Yves

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