Related to #1, this may only be happening at the start of my night, but I've developed the habit of always toggling tracking off then on after a slew to be sure. So it might be that I'm unparking the mount (which doesn't enable tracking unless you've saved your mount config while it was tracking), doing a slew, then seeing the issue.

As the code stands now, because it is assuming it will always be tracking after a slew, but there are conditions where it may not actually be tracking, the safest thing to do is to explicitly start tracking.

I've just checked with my AVX. Turn on, set mount to indexes, do quick align.
The mount is tracking. I can see this because the tracking mode is reported on the HC as EQ-North, rate Sidereal. Also checking the Ra this is not changing.

Start Ekos, start INDI connected to the Celestron driver.
Indi reports that the mount is tracking. Ekos reports that the mount is tracking.

I have seen Ekos not get the stacking state correctly and stopping then starting tracking seems to be needed but that seems to be an Ekos problem, not a mount problem.

I really don't recommend unilaterally sending a start tracking command. Some Celestron mounts will stop tracking for 0.6 seconds when a start tracking command is sent. At least read the tracking state first.

I own a CGX-L, and I don't experience the issue described by rickbassham. I pretty much always execute the same procedure and results as Chris describes. My mount is always tracking after a slew to a target, and not tracking after a park. I have never had to toggle the tracking state in the HC after a slew to new target. I would wonder if something is wrong with the mount and/or installed packages if this were the case........

As far as INDI specifications go, the ON_SET_COORD specify 3 switches:
1. Slew
2. Track
3. Sync

This is the action taken whenever EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORDS is updated. The difference between SLEW and TRACK is that Slew just moves from Point A to Point B and stops there. Whereas Track performs the slew and then engages tracking after it arrives at destination. For most mounts, tracking is re-engaged automatically so there are no differences between SLEW and TRACK. For mounts that have tracking control (on/off), SLEW can be implemented such as that it stops tracking after it is done but this is really not implemented in most drivers.

For the AVX and CGX-L, if the mount is not tracking, then you do a slew, does it start tracking automatically?

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