This is something I've struggled with for a while and cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. Sometimes things work fine but I can't tell what I"m doing different on the days it works vs. the days it doesn't work. Initially I thought it was due to running disconnected (astroberry hotspot) vs. my home wifi but that isn't always the solution.

The first thing I do is setup and 1-star align the mount. During this process, I enter the location coordinates, timezone offset for standard time, as well as YES/NO depending on whether DST is active or not. Given that I am in pacific timezone and DST is active, I set Timezone offset to -8 and I set DST to YES.

I also have the timezone set on the raspberry pi operating system to PST and I run (as root) the date command to set the time to the correct time, I confirm that in the UI it shows the proper current time.

I also set the geographic location using the astroberry preference menu to match what I set in the mount.

Then I start Kstars/EKOS and connect to the mount/camera/etc. I use "SynScan" driver to connect to my EQ6-R Pro with a USB cable plugged into the hand controller.

It pops up the INDI control panel and I notice that the UTC time displayed is off by an hour compared to actual UTC time and the TimeZone offset is -7. I also notice that the longitude is sometimes off by a significant amount. Instead of showing -118.xx.xx as I set in the mount, it shows like 242.xx.xx.

End result is that plate solving corrections do not work in the mount and I even notice that the mount itself will do a meridian flip an hour early. Plate solving with corrections iterates forever bouncing around about 10 arc-seconds at a time, but not even always in the right direction.

I have tried switching INDI settings to use location from mount but that seems to have no effect.

Hopefully someone can point out the error in my ways here.

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