My setup at the moment: Kstars-EKOS on my Linux virtual machine inside the house. Raspberry-Pi2 on wifi at the mount (AZ-EQ6) outside.
I'm able to connect all the devices correctly, they all work. However I may have a problem somewhere still. I tried a field-test just now and positioned the mount very roughly at Polaris (there were clouds at the time). I connected everything inside, all green, and told the mount to set the current position as its Park position. I didn't do any sync or solve (clouds), but I figured that wouldn't be necessary if my time-setting is correct (which I think it is, UTC+2 for the Netherlands) as well as my GPS coordinates. It was just a test so I didn't require any accuracy, just very roughly.
I connected the mount to Kstars and got a nice pointer at Polaris. Then I told the mount to slew to M31. It seemed to go to roughly the right position (I think), it stopped, but then did a so called "Iterative GoTo" and that went totally wrong, it just went waaaaaay off and I had to abort the slew using the software. I didn't properly confirm (I had to rush outside) but I thing Kstars also showed the pointer to go waaaay off, so the software knew about it. Where could this problem lie?
On other thing; telling the mount to then go back to its park position (remember I told the mount to save that at the beginning) and also that failed. It slewed back on RA, but DEC stayed put. Now, the motherboard of the mount was replaced just recently because an encoder connection on the old board was loose... maybe that has been installed wrong? I have no idea as I don't know what could cause this, any help is greatly appreciated!
I'm able to connect all the devices correctly, they all work. However I may have a problem somewhere still. I tried a field-test just now and positioned the mount very roughly at Polaris (there were clouds at the time). I connected everything inside, all green, and told the mount to set the current position as its Park position. I didn't do any sync or solve (clouds), but I figured that wouldn't be necessary if my time-setting is correct (which I think it is, UTC+2 for the Netherlands) as well as my GPS coordinates. It was just a test so I didn't require any accuracy, just very roughly.
I connected the mount to Kstars and got a nice pointer at Polaris. Then I told the mount to slew to M31. It seemed to go to roughly the right position (I think), it stopped, but then did a so called "Iterative GoTo" and that went totally wrong, it just went waaaaaay off and I had to abort the slew using the software. I didn't properly confirm (I had to rush outside) but I thing Kstars also showed the pointer to go waaaay off, so the software knew about it. Where could this problem lie?
On other thing; telling the mount to then go back to its park position (remember I told the mount to save that at the beginning) and also that failed. It slewed back on RA, but DEC stayed put. Now, the motherboard of the mount was replaced just recently because an encoder connection on the old board was loose... maybe that has been installed wrong? I have no idea as I don't know what could cause this, any help is greatly appreciated!