Hi,
here there is the new version of the driver.
This version adds:
1. Eq support: mount type selection button in mount info tab.
The selection button instructs the alignment subsystem to cope with Altaz or Eq mount.
2. Enabled tracking management, formerly it was disabled.
In INDI mount control tab tacking ON/OFF buttons are enabled.
A few words about the alignment procedure.
1. Power on sync: this is the first manual sync operation.
First, put you scope in some known position with respect to the scope mount. Tipycally by using marks on scope axes. At this point, before version 3.5.0 of Kstars, it was needed to manually compute the celestial RA/DEC coordinates corresponding to this initial scope position. In fact, Kstars < 3.5.0 allowed only to sync to RA/DEC coordinates, a quite unfriendly feature, at least for me. So, I extended Kstars sync capabilities to ALT/AZ and HA/DEC coordinates that are terrestrial frame coordinates indepentent of sidereal time with fixed values for each fixed scope position. This feature is merged in Kstar 3.5.0.
Another added feature to 3.5.0 is coordinates value conversion when changing the coordinate type among RA/DEC, ALT/AZ, HA/DEC.
A sync example for an Eq mount. Point to south meridian with DEC axis perpendicular to polar axis. This position corresponds to HA=0/DEC=0. Open the Mount Control Box (the virtual hand controller of Kstars), select HA/DEC of type radio button, set coordinates values (0,0), click sync button. The first alignment point is stored into the DB of the Alignment subsystem. From this moment the goto commands should no longer produce crazy movements.
2. Plate solver sync
Use plate solving to add all required sync points, manually or automatically guided by Kstars.
3. Finally, since plate solving is probably much more accurate than manual pointing of the first power on sync, it is better to delete the first sync point. Go to Alignment tab of driver indi control panel, set point index to 0, select action delete, click exec.
A lot of forgotten things missing ...