My Ubuntu 18.04 has updated to Kstars 3.4.0 and I saw this strange phone that appears once connected to my remote stuff. It comes in place of the 'stop' button after the circled 'play' button was clicked. In my case everything works fine, my remote stuff is operated by a Raspberry PI3B+ and AstroPi3 suite. Logs works well for me. Under witch OS it happened ?

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Hi, sorry for my late reply. Saving the driver (MyFocuserPro2) configuration did not worked, the reverse direction setting is inside the focuser.
I fixed this issue by switching wires of the stepper motor and everything works fine now.
I had to reverse direction because I have a 3:1 ratio belt drive:



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For those who have the Conky window passing behind the task bar on the top of screen, I found this tweak to adjust:

Edit /home/pi/.conky.rc
Find the line gap_y = 10 and replace with gap_y = 36 (task bar height is 26px + 10px offset)
Save the file and the changes are immediate

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Hi everyone,

I've built this amazing focuser but it won't stay in reverse direction once connected to Ekos through Kstars.

The configuration with Windows app is ok, when I disconnect and I reconnect the focuser to the Windows app, the reverse checkbox stay checked. The fact to connect the focuser to Ekos turns back the reverse mode to normal. (disconnection from Ekos and connection to Windows config app lets appear the reverse checkbox unchecked.

My actual firmware is: myFP2_DRV8825HW203_293
I've also tried with previous firmwares but without but results.

Any ideas ? Do I need to reverse motor wires ?

Thanks a lot for any help and many thanks for your work and your time spent around this project

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