Yes, home position is north when the mount is powered up, but the scope may be pointing elwehere as the motor encoders are relative.
With the synscan app, I always enable the internal encoders after poweron, and tell the scope to goto (-90,90). Then the scope is aligned with the home position, and the internal decoders can be switched off. Some claim that there is less precision with the internal decoders - I don't know.
Using EQ wedge.
I use a twin scope bracket, so I need the black dowetail screw on the mount to point towards polaris - that's why I goto (-90,90)

Eivind

Thanks for the work getting the AZ GTI working with Ekos. I was debugging the protocol using Wireshark, so INDI supporting the mount is a huge leap. Congratulations!

I did a quick test at home yesterday with Ubuntu Mate and the nightly PPA. It looks very good, but I need to test in the field.

One thing that I tried to achieve was to limit the slew rate to make the mount less noisy. I tried to set it to 32x, 8x and similar values, but didn't work. Not sure I'm doing it correctly.

Yesterday I did other attemps with the AZ GTI and Ekos. Plate solving worked, but after the sync, the mount I did a slew to another object and it took the wrong direction.

I also tried to guide on an object, and got an error (see attachment).

I don't know whether this problems are related to bad polar alignment.

Logs might shed some idea. CHeck my signature for how. Make sure Mount + INDI + Guide + Telescope are all checked in the logs window before you start.

I had no problems with plate solve+sync with this driver. Even guiding with Phd2 worked perfectly.
I dint pay attention to slew speed, however changing slew speeds from mount control, did work and slewed at those speed. my goto's were at 600x speed.(yes its noisy)

Hello,
I am new to Ekos. Have AZ-GTI with updated firmware and EQ wedge.
Just bought a StellarMate.
What do I need to do to get the updated driver? (sorry, not very familiar with Linux).
Thanks!
max

Follow this StellarMate Guide

Oh. Thanks! StellarMate site looks beautiful but sometimes not easy to find things.

Sorry - a stupid newbie question.
I connected Ekos/Stellarmate to the mount's wifi hotspot.
Stellarmate is connected to my home router for VNC.
This works.
But what do I do in the field - how do I VNC to Stellarmate if its wifi is taken by the mount?
I was hoping to do everything with a single android tablet...
Thanks!

If you put the AZ GTi wifi in station mode ,mount should connect to stellarmate hotspot . By default mount wifi is in hotspot mode .

I use an external wifi dongle with Raspberry Pi ,so can vnc to mount and RPI3 built in wifi connects to AZ GTI.

Thanks! Ordered one...

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