Question !!! REPOSTED !!! EKOS Polar Alignment Tool no longer work with my Avalon Zero

Hello Stefano,

Thank you for your reply.

In the case of the StarGO2 it is clearly an issue with the mount control and not with EKOS.

I did tests as requested by Jasem, which prove that East and West is mixed up. I tried it with both the INDI and the ASCOM driver. Either the mix-up is in the drivers or in the FW.

Please, refer to my posts here and on the INDI forum on the same topic.

Hi Stefano!

Thanks for replying!
FYI I decided to install v6.2.0 a couple of weeks ago but the erratic behavior remains unfortunately.
Cheers

I can confirm this problem. The root cause is that the firmware does not report properly RA changes when the mount is in the home position.

Slew to a (high) position close to the meridian and do the polar alignment from there. Be careful, if you are west of the meridian, use a WEST motion (and vice versa).

HTH
Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang!

Many thanks for chiming in! Do you (or Stefano) have an E.T.A. when this will be fixed?

Cheers

Hi Wolfgang,

Thank you for this inside! Could this be valid/applicable for the StarGO2 Pro as well?

In the EKOS-PAA when using the SG2P, I usually remain on the eastern side of the meridian facing East with DEC between 0 and +10°. I then go either from East to West or from West to East in 30° (=2h RA) steps by manually changing the RA in the mount/telescope control in EKOS.

The automatic slewing does not work here. I know it is maybe not the same bug/issue as with the classical SG, but it might be related.

And then there is this issue:
indilib.org/forum/ekos/10407-polar-align....html?start=36#84507
Which also seems to be related, but is much more severe, since it requires a full reboot of the SG2P's RPi4.