Hi everybody,
I am new to this field and decided to start with an iEXOS 100 and a small apo refractor.
I got my mount to move using the provided app and wifi so it is working fine.

I added the ppa repos and installed indi-full and kstars-bleeding

What I did was starting Kstars, going to Tools->Devices->Devices Manager
On the Local/Server tab I chose ES IEXOS PMC8, Local mode and click on Run Server.
i checked the config and all seemed fine (baudrate, usb port etc)

Then I click on connect and I get the timeout errors.

When I connected the mount to my laptop via USB, I could see that it is recognized as an FTDI device "FT232R USB UART" on ttyUSB0.
I made sure my user is part of the dialout group which handles this kind of devices (to be safe I also started Kstars as root but it didn't help).

Am I doing something wrong? Or how could I best gather debug logs for that? The only logs I see now are:

org.kde.kstars.indi: ES iEXOS100 PMC-Eight :  "[ERROR] check_pmc8_connection(): Error connecting. Please read the instructions at: http://indilib.org/devices/telescopes/explore-scientific-g11-pmc-eight/ before using this driver!For serial connections, a special USB SERIAL cable setup is REQUIRED. "
org.kde.kstars.indi: ES iEXOS100 PMC-Eight :  "[ERROR] Read error: Timeout error