Jon,
many thanks, your help is very much appreciated. The Az-Eq 6 does not have any wifi capabilities. My options to connect are either through the built-in usb port (works well with EQmod @115 kbaud), via the usb port of the HC (@ 9600 baud) or via a bluetooth dongle, which is inserted into the MC unit instead of the HC.
I have just changed my setup to the most recent stable version of Stellarmate, in the hope of having newer drivers.
Again, the version of my driver is 1.2. From browsing through the code of "skywatcherAPI" on github (
github.com/indilib/indi/commit/aeba92ac6...b96cd00d41f17c2f1359) I did understand that version 1.2 does include the most recent changes. Anyway, yesterday I did compile the most recent version on my Astroberry and it did also gave me version 1.2 of the Skywatcher Alt-Az driver. However, the response was the same as it is with Stellarmate. I enabled logging. This came out, when trying to connect via the HC @ 9600 baud:
[2021-01-27T15:54:29.472 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Connecting to /dev/ttyUSB0 @ 9600 "
[2021-01-27T15:54:29.477 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Port FD 3 "
[2021-01-27T15:54:29.477 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Connection successful, attempting handshake... "
[2021-01-27T15:54:29.477 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] SkywatcherAPIMount::Handshake "
[2021-01-27T15:54:29.478 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] InitMount "
[2021-01-27T15:54:29.478 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] CheckIfDCMotor "
[2021-01-27T15:54:31.494 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] SkywatcherAPIMount::Handshake - Result: 0 "
[2021-01-27T15:54:31.495 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Handshake failed. "
[2021-01-27T15:54:31.760 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos] - "Skywatcher Alt-Az" is disconnected.
[2021-01-27T15:54:31.761 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos] - "Skywatcher Alt-Az is disconnected."
Same result when trying to connect through the built-in usb (which works flawlessly with EQmoc):
[2021-01-27T15:57:34.413 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[INFO] Scan complete. Found 1 port(s). "
[2021-01-27T15:57:39.177 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Connecting to /dev/ttyUSB0 @ 115200 "
[2021-01-27T15:57:39.187 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Port FD 3 "
[2021-01-27T15:57:39.188 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Connection successful, attempting handshake... "
[2021-01-27T15:57:39.188 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] SkywatcherAPIMount::Handshake "
[2021-01-27T15:57:39.189 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] InitMount "
[2021-01-27T15:57:39.189 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] CheckIfDCMotor "
[2021-01-27T15:57:41.194 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[SCOPE] SkywatcherAPIMount::Handshake - Result: 0 "
[2021-01-27T15:57:41.195 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Skywatcher Alt-Az : "[DEBUG] Handshake failed. "
[2021-01-27T15:57:41.300 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos] - "Skywatcher Alt-Az" is disconnected.
[2021-01-27T15:57:41.301 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos] - "Skywatcher Alt-Az is disconnected."
I remember having a similar problem last year prior to the revision of the Skywatcher Alt-Az driver. Apparently the Az-Eq 6 gives a response during the handshake process which is not anticipated by the driver.
Any ideas ?
Cheers and kind regards
Dirk