This afternoon I tried a flurry of different changes to hopefully find the reason for the perpetual Pegasus Port conflict failures.

Not really thinking that this might solve the problem, yet hoping for perhaps a breakthrough with a fresh install I installed the SM OS 1.5.8 on a purportedly faster micro SD card.  When I got this up and running I could see that this did not remove the port conflict between Pegasus Devices.

Next I removed the Pegasus Focus Cube USB connection from the PPBA and moved it into the Raspberry Pi device.  Initially both the PPBA and the Focus Cube came up fine.  The ports seemed to stay stable with the PPBA having USB0 and the Focus Cube taking USB1.  I started up several times with no issues.

Seeing the general issue itself possibly fixed I was very happy and I next added my last serial device which is the EQ6R Pro mount.

Immediately this did not work.  None of the serial devices were able to connect.  I tried numerous little things to get the combination of 3 serial devices to work with each other to no avail.   I found out the USB assignments in this arrangement.  Surprisingly the PPBA moved to USB2 and the EQ6R took over USB0.

I removed the EQ6R connection from my setup and still had a failure between the PPBA and the Focus Cube that I initially did not have.  The difference that I noted was that the Focus Cube took over USB0 and the PPBA had USB1.

Of course going back to where the PPBA was the only serial device made it work.  And this slid it back to USB0.

Very frustratingly I discovered that by adding the Focus Cube back both connections once again failed.  In verifying the USB assignments I could see that the Focus Cube wanted USB0, and the PPBA slid over to USB1.

It seemed the only stable connection occurred when the PPBA stayed at USB0.

Maybe I'm missing something blatantly obvious but why won't the devices keep their USB assignments?  I would love to hear that I did something wrong with my setup but there doesn't appear to be a way to keep everything from sliding around when devices are added.

It would be nice if the auto search could be disabled on a device once it successfully comes up.  Let's say the PPBA comes up successfully by itself on USB0, the 1st thing I do is make sure auto search is disabled and then I hit "Save" under options.  When I add another device then there is a battle for USB0, both devices go back to auto search until the search is concluded.  If the PPBA loses then both devices don't connect.

To have the unique serial ID represented for the USB port is a very good idea, but it doesn't lock the port in place.  Am I the only one that is noticing this?

Is this only a StellarMate OS issue as the moderator on the Pegasus Forum suggested?

You can't imagine how frustrated I am with this issue.  I am doing my best to keep patient.

I can certainly imagine that it is frustrating on the programming end as well.
 
The unique serial port idea should solve the problem, but why doesn't it lock?

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