Willi replied to the topic 'Skysafari 7 with stellarmate' in the forum. 1 year ago

Nice set-up. I like it. I have very similar hardware and I am fully Apple-based as well, except for the RPi of course ;-). I have both the ASIAIR Pro and the StellarMate. So far I use mostly the ASIAIR. The mount is a Avalon M-Uno with the new StarGO2 Pro controller (SG2), which is RPi-based and runs its own INDI server, KStars/EKOS.

I also interface with SkySafari 6 or 7 Pro from the iPad, because I like the SS interface and GUI much better. Easier to read. Finding things quicker.

This is related, because the SG2 is basically taking over the function of the SM INDI server.

There are some issues with the communication between SS6 and the ASIAIR. I can either use SS6 or the ASIAIR.

As for SS7, I use the INDI-based client in SS7, which had some issues in the beginning but those problems seemed to be resolved. The main issue was, whenever SS7 slewed to a new target, plate solving did not work because the mount was not switching back to the tracking mode. When looking at how the INDI communication works, in some mount drivers you have to re-start the tracking mode after slewing. It is not always automatic.
Lately, I do not have this issue anymore.

Since you all Apple based, did you try INDIGO? I would love to try it out, but the Avalon SG2 interface is not compatible.

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