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Can't change serial port because INDI Control Panel is greyed out?

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Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble connecting my CG5. I am using a "Washinglee USB to RJ9 Cable" to connect to the nexstar hand control. I try to connect through Tools > Devices > Device Manager > Telescopes > Celestron Nexstar > "Run Service". But then I get the following error:

020-11-13T04:14:48: startup: /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/indi/indiserver -v -p 7624 -m 300 -r 0 -f /tmp/indififo...[removed]
2020-11-13T04:14:48: listening to port 7624 on fd 3
FIFO: start indi_celestron_gps -n "Celestron NexStar"
With name: Celestron NexStar
FIFO: Starting driver indi_celestron_gps
2020-11-13T04:14:48: Driver indi_celestron_gps: pid=1689 rfd=4 wfd=7 efd=8
2020-11-13T04:14:48: Client 5: new arrival from 127.0...[removed] - welcome!
Child process 1689 died
2020-11-13T04:14:48: Driver indi_celestron_gps: stderr EOF
2020-11-13T04:14:48: Driver indi_celestron_gps: Terminated after #0 restarts.


I'm pretty sure it is because the serial port address is wrong. When I connect with other software packages (Stellarium or AstroTelescope), I do so by changing the serial port from /dev/tty... to "/dev/cu.usbserial…".
In the Kstars documentation, it mentions something similar to this:

"By default, KStars will try to connect to the /dev/ttyS0 port. To change the connection port, select INDI Control Panel from the Tools → Devices submenu and change the port under your device tab."

But this is where my problem is! I can't actually get to "INDI Control Panel" because it is greyed out (I think it's greyed out since I'm not able to "Run Service" on the mount).
Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can change the serial port address to be "cu.usbserial..."?
3 years 4 months ago #63102

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It's better to use Ekos to handle this instead of the old direct connection method via "Device" menu.
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