I just got the eponymous mount, and was delighted when the iOptron HAE29 driver connected to it without a hitch. I was able to use the INDI Control Panel affordances to slew it, ensure that it knew the correct time and location, etc. Likewise in KStars, a point labeled for the mount shows up in the planetarium view, and if I right-click various locations, "iOptron HAE29" is in the context menu, and clicking "Goto" from that slews the mount at them. All great!

However, in Ekos proper, notso-hotso. For example if I go to the Mount panel, everything is blank and greyed out. I can bring up the Mount Control dialog, but all the mount position values are zeroes, the slew pushbuttons don't work, and if I search for a target and then click the "GOTO" button, nothing happens.

This doesn't have anything to do with the Tiime & Location Updates configurations in KStars, right? (As in "Mount updates KStars" or "KStars updates all devices".) That is about the only change I made to KStars (besides making a new INDI equipment profile, of course). What else can I try?

Various points:

• Same install on same Pi worked great with CEM70 and a similar one did with CEM25P
• No errors appear in the logs that I can see
• Behavior is the same whether connecting over USB (SERIAL) or WiFi (NETWORK)
• Mount firmware is as shipped, 202210something
• Alignment tab is also present, but equally greyed out/unpopulated

TIA! It's a beautiful little mount, can't wait to actually use it!

is your mount selected in the optical train in the Mount module? double check.

Interestingly, there are no optical trains available in the dropdown, although I know I had defined at least two. And every time I click the "+" to create one in the optical trains dialog, KStars crashes and restarts. THAT'S weird!

I'm certainly able to edit XML files if that's required to jam something into place, here. Or I could try updating, I think I'm just running whatever came with the latest StellarMate OS. Not quite sure how to update outside of waiting for a new one, I blush to admit.

delete profile and create a new one

Hahahaha "turn it off and turn it back on again", like! Classic!

Except...that totally worked. I still have an issue with UTC vs. local time but that's easily fixable. Everything connects and Ekos can control the mount. Thanks Jasem, you are the best!