Niko, others can correct me if I am wrong, but I think you use the wrong driver. EQMod is for EQ mounts connected with EQDir cable. With handcontroller, you should use SynScan driver.

arghh, that's probably the dumbest rookie mistake one can make.

Now I at least have a proper incentive to build a 1.8 to 3.3 V level shifter to use the GPIO UART

Thanks
Niko

It's still possible to use EQMod this way if you put the controller in PC-Direct mode.

Hello there!

I am experiencing the same issues and I was wondering if this has been resolved or if it occurs again for some strange reasons.

I have built myself the usb cable for a SkyWatcher HEQ-5 by using a FTDI TTL-232R-5V and a RJ-45 cable

lsusb:
dmesg:
<code>[ 1782.089199] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 1782.245183] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001
[ 1782.245194] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1782.245198] usb 1-1.4: Product: TTL232R
[ 1782.245203] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: FTDI
[ 1782.245207] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: FTA5JEFP
[ 1782.251731] ftdi_sio 1-1.4:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[ 1782.251830] usb 1-1.4: Detected FT232RL
[ 1782.252809] usb 1-1.4: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB1</code>

Ekos / INDI reports:
I have installed INDI (Ekos, Kstars…) by using the AstroPi3 script on a Raspberry Pi 3 on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS and I think I am on the latest version (sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get upgrade already done a couple of times).

Any help is greatly appreciated, I am trying to get this to work for the last three days.


EDIT:
I updated to the nightly version and the error message is different now:
I guess I need to find out what driver or process uses the port?!