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EQMOD trough AstroEQ : Sideral track KO

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Hi

i'm building an AstroEQ board for my old EQ5 mount :
www.astroeq.co.uk/tutorials.php
This is really a great project.
You can follow my attempt here (in french) :
www.webastro.net/forum/showthread.php?t=151035
I took the Arduino option.
It's working quite well on Windows despite driver problems i'm having atm.

It's a little bit more difficule with Indi, i have two problems.

The first is a timeout when connecting, it lasts ~15s before connection to serial port is up.
I think this is an arduino related problem, but any i take any suggestion.

The second is that after connection, when i set sideral tracking, my RA motor doesn't move.
The only way to make it move is to make a brief slew to W or E with the motion buttons.
After, everything seems to go fine.

I've attached my log, i must say i couldn't find anything

Gilles.
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hi,
i'm still searching...
No solution found atm, but i've noticed another problem :
1-unpark => ok
2-sideral tracking on => ok
3-slew somewhere => mount moves somewhere
4-park => return to home & park => ok
5-unpark => ok
6-sideral tracking on => KO :
After doing that, my mount starts to slew (somewhere else...), then stops, and then only sideral tracking starts...
i'm trying to read logs

Gilles.
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New (good) point :
I've just tried with a fresh Ekos VM on windows.
I don't see such behaviour
=>Something is wrong on my other config...
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I "think" i've resolved the delay on first connection
i've read somewhere that "modemmanager" could be a problem, so :
sudo apt-get --purge remove modemmanager
This problem seems solved...

Edit :
Noooooo....
no luck, this doesn't work.
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Tried another trick :
sudo setserial /dev/ttyACM0 low_latency

This one seems to solve initial lag on connection
but :) also stuff described before (the unpark/slew symptom)
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Hello! I have a same problem =/ Did you find a solution?
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hi
standby for me, but :
i "think" these troubles could be related to initialization :
With arduino's stuff, a RST is sent when a serial connection arrives...
To avoid that, i will certainly put a 100uF cap between +5V and RST pins of arduino,(found on MyFocuserPro DIY project)
i've not tried yet...
you could also try to see on AstroEQ forum, i think there are some threads about that...

Gilles
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Hmm. I tried use EQMod on Windows. Tracking starts at once after click on Tracking button.
I will look for a solution on AstroEQ forum.
Thanks!
P.S. Sorry for my bad English..
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Yes,i think EQMOD and Indi handshake protocols are different...
(try to avoid "autodiscover" function)
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I build my AstroEQ a year ago and can say after a bugfix ( this thread )
in the indi-eqmod-module it works very well. I build it on an arduino mega 2560 and the first connection fails every time but it automatically connects again and everything works. Currently I try to get my guiding more stable which can be very tricky. I didn't have any problems with tracking: I right-click on a position in kstars, select EQMod->track and it works.

Also I can recommend the custom pulleys for the EQ5 in the AstroEQ project.
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