Raj
Raj replied to the topic 'Skywatcher CQ350 Pro and Ekos/Kstars' in the forum. 1 year ago

@Jasem thanks for your help and patiently answering my questions. Finally solved the issue by disabling/removing virtualgps device (software) and after that it worked great. Now Indi panel can see CQ 350 mount with SkyWatcher -> EQMount driver. All good now!


--- Additional information, for those interested ---
In my troubleshooting attempts, nothing weird found in the dmesg. Although, there were logs in the syslog (/var/log/syslog) that indicated virtual gps daemon was trying to claim /dev/ttyUSB0 before EQMount driver

Apr 13 14:27:06 astro01 systemd[1]: Starting Manage ttyUSB0 for GPS daemon...
Apr 13 14:27:06 astro01 gpsdctl: gpsd_control(action=add, arg=/dev/ttyUSB0)
Apr 13 14:27:06 astro01 gpsdctl: reached a running gpsd
I also noticed 'fuser -k /dev/ttyUSB0' once showed the pid of gpsd process, but it killed the daemon after first attempt (OS issue), and after that it didn't show up the pid when running the 'fuser ..' command again. It was miss on my end earlier, as repeated attempts of fuser returned nothing. But it was definitely the other process trying to claim USB serial first, before EQMount daemon.

Removed the virtualgps/gpsd* software, rebooted and everything worked fine after that.

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