Hi All,

First, big fan of ekos/kstars - I've got my rig setup so that it is all setup as a R-PI so that its all connected up, I just take it outside, plug in one power plug and polar align/focus and I'm done. I can go inside and everything is connected and on wifi.

The problem I've had in recent upgrades (sorry, not sure exactly when this started happening) is that the mount is now mis-aligning. To try and sort it out, I tell it to park at polar home (sometimes it is off), I then adjust the clutches so it is definitely in polar home. At this point, it should in theory know roughly where it is. I then tell it to slew to a target - it got that wrong by miles: ~90 degrees azimuth and maybe 20-30 degrees altitude (i.e. no small amount in either direction). I then told it to park again at polar home, and whilst DEC slews fine, RA just keeps running for ever!

In terms of kit, this is an EQ5 skywatcher mount, which has run fine on windows with eqmod/etc for ages. Its connected now to a stellarmate raspberry pi running kstars-bleeding at latest levels (apt update/apt upgrade yesterday). The mount is connected via serial connection into the handcontroller (no EQDIRECT cable yet) with PC Direct mode.

Happy to talk technical, I know linux and astro pretty well, so more than happy to tinker to resolve this, but can't solve this one.

One other thing I would note (and I've had this with EQMOD too on windows, different laptop): I can't enable the horizon abort logic - if I do, then the mount will just randomly stop during tracking (even though it is not near a limit). It is odd - I know how to polar align/drift align, the mount is looking to be fine in the alt/az numbers, but it will still stop the mount. Not sure if that is related, but as it is a mount related issue, I'll pass it on in case it inspires.

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