Lars replied to the topic 'Problem Canon 6D and QHY5' in the forum. 3 years ago

Now I have tested the EQDirect cable a couple of nights. Everything looks to be perfect, still, this is the bad old PL2303 chip cable. Later I shall examine why my newer FTDI cable doesn't work.

One more positve thing, I got the GPSD to connect to a GPS dongle. I made a short project/tutorial how I set it up (with massive support from my friend):

www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/projects/project-heq5/07-heq5.html

And the GPS NMEA driver works also, I use the Share GPS app that was recommended:

www.astrofriend.eu/astronomy/projects/project-heq5/08-heq5.html

/Lars

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