I have just upgraded to the latest version of the the Indi library and I notice that the behaviour of the GEM45 mount driver has changed. It is now using the iOptronV3 driver Version 1.5 Interface 5.
I upgraded the firmware in my GEM45 a few weeks ago and loaded the iOptronV3 driver Version 1.3 Interface 5. The park function was working perfectly in that version. I used it for many sessions.
In the version from the latest library the mount will park once but it is not possible to Unpark it from EKOS. EKOS keeps the Unpark button greyed out, the Park is still active.
If I park it from Indi it says "Parking in Progress..." and stays in that state.
If I then unpark it from Indi it says "Parking/Unparking aborted" followed by "Slew Complete, tracking..." and it switches on the tracking.

So I thought I will just revert back to the 1.3 driver (I always keep one SD card with my last good working version) but the behaviour there is now the same!

It seems like the 1.5 driver has sent some command to the mount to change its behaviour.

Does anyone know why I am seeing this behaviour and how I can get back to the V1.3 behaviour?

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