I will give it a try, thanks for the suggestion, however it will have to be ok with my colleagues which this time is my problem to solve

Having said that, I inserted some traces and hacked a couple of lines in synscandriver.cpp and it turns out that the driver sends a T0 (means 'stop tracking') even if I click on "track" either in ekos/indi panel. I suspect it takes the actual value of "track mode", which, since no mode is selected, ends up with no tracking at all (when I actually force the mode in the driver code itself, it works). Now the question is: why, when I select the EQ track mode, the panel will NOT acknowledge it? That's kind of a chicken and egg problem: no tracking if no mode is set and no mode can be set hence tracking will not fire ... Seems like the driver cannot/will not override the handset's track mode. Maybe Jasem can shed some light on this matter.

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