Hi Frank,
This is excellent news. Thank you!
I just learned about this focuser this week and I am thinking to get it now. I rely on INDI- or INDIGO-based drivers. Great to hear there is this progress.
Cheers
Willi
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Did you make and progress? I would be very much interested to use this driver on a RaspberryPi 4B under EKOS.
BTW, did you check out INDIGO? Peter and Rumen from CloudMakers.com would probably be very open to develop and compile the driver for INDIGO and maybe even for INDI.
www.cloudmakers.eu/xindigo/
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True! Usually, I do not go for the latest version either. Since I have a full disk image of a working version, I took the risk of updating straight from 1.8.9. to 1.9.7. So fart everything works well and smoothly. 
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Hi Gene,
I can confirm, after upgrading to INDI 1.9.7. with all its drivers, the "bug" is gone . The mount is slewing to the correct DEC coordinate.
Thanks again! You were a big help
Cheers
Willi
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Maybe you could share your experience in the Avalon Forum:
www.avalon-instruments.com/forum/stargo2...ate-to-fix-bugs#1093
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Thank you for clarifying... I get it now, you were referring to ancient drivers rather ancient SkySafari Apps ... I am so embarrassed.
I will check with Avalon... actually, I have posted the issue in their forum and had sent them a couple of e-mails. There has been no reply to any of these request, nor any acknowledgement. Absolute radio silence. Therefore, I am even more grateful that you and this forum replied so quickly and provided a solution!
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Hi Gene,
Ui... good to know. The StarGo2 Raspberry Pi has its own INDI-server / library. The SkySafari driver/client is adapted to their systems. So I don't think I could just update INDI. Preferably, this would need to be updated by Avalon.
Anyway, if I run indiserver from the command prompt own the RPi I get the following:
pi@StarGO2:~ $ indiserver -vvv
2022-10-29T13:44:22: startup: indiserver -vvv
Usage: indiserver [options] driver [driver ...]
Purpose: server for local and remote INDI drivers
INDI Library: 1.8.9
Code v1.8.9-1-g4c3f1c60. Protocol 1.7.
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pi@StarGO2:~ $
Again, the skysafari driver is updated separately from IND, I think. There is an extra indi director in the home directory which contains their own drivers, including the ones for SkySafari.
BTW, I like to come back to the comment that it is an "ancient" SkySafari version 
. This is actually not really the case. Until very recently (earlier this year) with SkySafari 7, you had to connect SkySafari 6 via port 9624 to any INDI-based telescope controller. Only with the new SkySafari 7 version, you have the option to use port 7624 and thus the native mount drivers, but you still also have the option to use port 9624, which would still be using the one that had DEC flipping issue.
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Hi Gene,
Thank you !!! Great find in the code.
I will check with Avalon to update the driver or to fix this bug!
Willi
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Hi Fred,
Good idea. I am using PHD outside of the EKOS environment or better without the EKOS/PHD2 connection, which is an option.
Because I had problems finding the best settings with the EKOS guider(s), I changed to PHD2 and the recommended settings for PHD2 by the mount manufacturer. Then I still ran the guiding assistant in PHD2, which fine tunes the guiding settings. Now I have very good guiding results:
openphdguiding.org/man-dev/Tools.htm#Guiding_Assistant
In my case, the WiFi satellites are not very far apart and create a perfect WiFi-6 mesh. Each and everyone of the satellites has two ethernet ports, which makes the wired connection very fast from the RPi’s to any other device in the (WiFi) network.
Yes, support is very important. Unfortunately, the support for the software for my mount is very spotty. While mechanically great, the software has some (minor) issues and the support is not very responsive.
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