Andrew Jeffries replied to the topic 'Can't unpark' in the forum. 4 years ago

Hi all

With another good night I thought it time to check what is happening and see if I can reproduce the same unparking issues and see them on the log files. Well I had the same problems but didn’t reset the logs from default to file as I thought the default would create a file. So no file again :-( So having found how to create a file I decided to do a test run from Parked to Vega then to Cappella and finally Alpheratz. I noticed during this run that it took some time to complete and on examining the logs noted that there was a loss of communication with the mount on five occasions. See the attached logs, one direct from Kstars and the other where I have highlighted the disconnects.

For information here, I am running Stellarmate connected to the Synscan WiFi dongle plugged into the mount - no FTDI cable. I use a MacBook Pro which is connected to the dongle via WiFi thus completing a small WiFi based network. Apart from the unparking issue this has worked well enough on test in the past and on one occasion when I did a visual survey, going from target to target was faultless.

What I am wondering is if there any Gremlins getting in with using two devices which are both trying to create hotspots although I have made the Synscan a connection on StellarMate. But are they competing with each other to have control? - Don’t know. Not enough of a networking Geek to be able to answer that one.

What are the thoughts of those of you who have tried this and is it worth scrapping the idea of using the dongle and buying an FTDI cable to give me a hard connection between mount and StellarMate and simply using the StellarMate WiFi connection from the Mac.

Your thoughts would be appreciated

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Andrew

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