Well, we have drifted away from the initial subject But since you're asking, I've faced many, many issues with the EQMod driver and kstars/ekos. At the point where it is sometimes barely usable and I lost tens of minutes if not hours of valuable time trying to make the mount answer my godamn orders correctly.

For instance, almost every time I use the "Sync" context menu item from kstars, the mount refuses to move afterwards. Strangely enough, using sync from the alignment module or the mount control does not produce this behavior.

Also sometimes the mount would move in the opposite direction of where it's supposed to go. When it does, the scope pointer in kstars is generally doing some crazy stuff, like going "out" of the sky or jumping from one point to another part of the sky for no reason. The only thing that works in such situations is to completely reset the mount to factory settings **and** purge configuration data. Sometimes even a reboot is needed despite the previous steps.

One time also, kstars refused to set the mount to a precise coordinate. When moving the mount, the coordinates were just "jumping" above a few arc minutes while the mount itself was moving normally. Again, a complete factory reset / configuration purge did the trick.

There is probably more to it I can't remember...

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