I have not used it this winter so only have superficial impressions noted in my last but one post.

There is some odd behavior in the indi panel using the save button. I had to disable logging in the EKOS setup panel. That removes the logging check boxes from the telescope's INDI panel and then the save button would work.

But the main thing was the introduction of the cold start button in the INDI panel. The user has to locate it in the INDI panel and push it before any of the EKOS mount controls such has park/unpark will work. Not sure how that will play with the scheduler since it does not offer such an option. The initial startup conditions are different now: unparked and not tracking. However one can not slew to a position or do anything else until the cold start button is used. I think that is true even if the mount has not been powered down from one EKOS run to another. I would prefer whatever cold start does, for it to be automated or its requirement be conditional on identifying older mount firmware.

I think some of my initial difficulty with getting it to work was that the cold start button was not there or was not working, can't remember which. This was because was not defined in my mount's INDI XML file due to the file being retained across installs. When I tumbled onto that and edited the file things started to work.

Now I am happy to find the mount can be parked/unparked and slew to a position which appears to be accurate. This is west of Greenwich which I understood to have been an issue previously. This means I can stay with Ekos and will have an imaging session one fine night to try it out more fully.

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