Hi All,

I making steady, but very slow, progress getting a ZWO AM5 mount to work nicely with my INDI/stellarmate setup. Just wonderingif anyone has recomended settings for the RA/Dec agressiveness and other parameters (integral gain etc.) that they find to work? I did not get below around 2" RMS last night -albeit this is using a very short FL guidescope (120mm/F4).

I also note a few oddities to get it to connect/slew/GoTo. First of alll the mount needs to be breifly attached to the ZWO app to get date/time (I think) info then the slew/goto works in Indi (and at this point the handset can be disconnected. But it'll still "park" without that step. Also unparkong does not seem to work - I have to "start tracking", then "unpark" the it wakes up and actually unparks. and then getting the guiding calibration to complete seems to have a bug - it calibrated in RA forward, but the revenserse never competees (it seem to go forward not actaully reverses). I fixed it (thanks to a comment from kd6awa via Der Pit on the cloundy night forum) by breifly stopping pulse guiding, then re-starting (enabling) it. and then sending a few 0ms pulses manually though the INDI control panel. then the guide prep completes. But, what a palaver!

Once guiding got going it never really got below 2" (which is fine for my widefield needs) let alone the published 0.5-0.8" - but maybe the Asi air driver is "better" than thre INDI one?

Any other AM5/INDI users out there with thoughts/ideas?

Cheers, Phil

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