I don't think it irrelevant at all. In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if gps is the heart of the problem.
I do have a GPS dongle attached to the Pi, and *usually* it shows longitude as 248.x something or other. But it sometimes takes a long time to show a response, if at all. So, I thought I'd bypass it and tell Ekos I was in Mesa (which is where I am). I looked up the coordinates on my other mount (iOptron CEM25 w/gps), and it shows:
Lat - 33:26:56.8
Lon - -111:41:31.1
Which is what I used on the EQ5.
What's odd is after I removed the gps dongle from the configuration and restarted Ekos, the Lat/lon now show:
Lat - 33:26:56
Long - 248:18:29
Which are the values the gps dongle typically reports when it actually is working.
Unfortunately, when I attempted to slew to Dubhe, the mount still slewed the wrong direction.