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Meridian Flip and other meridian issues with iOptron CEM25P

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My current firmware versions are:
HC: 190422
RA: 190422
DEC: 170106
3 years 6 months ago #60747

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Mine are:

HC: 170518
RA: 170106
DEC: 170106

I am way behind yours, Stephane!

I don't think firmware is the problem.
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I didn't know that and at any rate, never used the hand controller outside my living room. Certainly did not perform any star alignment with it. Out of the box, I just plugged it into my Pi and used Ekos to drive the mount. The only adjustments on the HC I made was setting DST to N, time zone to -300, Flip to 4 degrees past meridian and behavior to flip, not stop. All the rest was done in Ekos.
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My USB cable should be there in a few days time, I will be able to test this park & meridian flip soon.
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Its almost the same with me, I usually only use the HC to set and store the home position now and then as well as slew it back to the home position if Ekos fails to do that.

So, I guess, seeing all this different Flip XY degrees past meridian settings in the HC it is not an issue with the HC or the mount. I have mine set to UTC+120min, DST=N and to perform a flip at 3deg past meridian.
I did used Mount updates KStars because to make use of the GPS and I have it now on KStars updates mount - either way it did not work.

Can someone of you maybe share the mount settings in INDI and Ekos? May I can find any difference in comparing those.
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Sure thing. Here is the config file used by INDI. You can find yours in the .indi directory (mind the dot in the name!!!) in your home directory. Note that I renamed it to .xml.txt since the forum doesn't allow uploading XML files.


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The latest official firmwares are

Go2Nova 8408 hand controller firmware (V190422) (Released 1/31/2020)
CEM25 R.A. motor control board (V190422)
CEM25 DEC motor control board (V170106)

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Dank je wel Wouter - I will have a look into that when I´m back home tonight :-)
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I finally copared your XML file with mine and I dont see any difference apart from one turned entry in the right beginning. Though I could not figure out what that means...

This is mine:

Showing after "DEBUG" the "ENABLE" on OFF and the DISABLE on ON

This is the example

Showing after "DEBUG" the "ENABLE" on ON and the DISABLE on OFF

No further differences in the whole file - they are (appart from the location coordinates) indentical.
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It means that in my case debug logging is on and in your case off. I compared my xml file with the one of El Corazon and found one difference. For him the slew speed is set to 9 and for me to 5. I don’t think that’s thenissue though (even if I said so in an email to him) because for me the RA axis does park. And the mreridian flip goes at full speed as well. I am as puzzled as you are...
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