Thanks! Good to know.

I had a frustrating evening yesterday when I wanted to switch my mount from Equatorial to AltAz und therefore needed to recompile OnStep. It moved in unexplainable ways and also parked in different positions. At some point I switched to the latest Release and it began to move reasonable again. But after a "move to home" it got stuck. An "unpark" was not successful. "Tracking enable" however was successful. Later I figured out that it works when I set a park position. OnStep's internal state handling is sometimes a bit inconsistent. After some more issues (timezone was 1h off) I finally got it working.

OK, this was all unrelated to INDI, as I reconfigured my mount to AltAz for visual observation and I am using a Basic Handcontroller and the OnStep App for controlling the mount. However I used INDI inbetween when I was trying to figure out what was going wrong.

Sorry for venting my frustration with OnStep. Let's hope Howard makes the Beta a final stable release before putting all his energy into OnStepX.

CS
Guido

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