Thank you, Jasem and Dirk, for your quick responses to my post. I originally included a quote of Dirk's post #66607 (which is at the end of page 2 of this topic) in my submission but unfortunately it looks like it didn't make it through so some of what I said won't make sense.

Anyway, the Mount Type (also termed Mount Code) is 0x06 as reported in the "Mount type not supported. 6" error message. A minor point to note: this error message only appears when connecting via Ethernet (for the AZ-EQ5 I used the Skywatcher WiFi adapter). A serial connection only returns the CheckIfDCMotor & SkywatcherAPIMount::Handshake - Result: 0 messages that Dirk describes in #66607. Maybe the code for the "Mount type not supported" message doesn't get triggered with failed serial connections but the underlying cause is the same.

#66607 also mentions that Jean-Luc did modify SkywatcherAPI to support his AZ-EQ5 and that's what I'm referring to in the first sentence of my initial post.

Thanks again!

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