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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