WorkFlow Setup for Astro-Physics Mount With KStars/EKOS/INDI (for KStars 3.5.4 Beta)
•	Connect all equipment apart from mount power.
•	Start Raspberry Pi and open KStars
•	Check in KStars indi settings that KStars updats the mount if GPS is not attached
•	Ensure that the location is set and correct UTC offset
•	Open your selected profile and click connect (remember that the mount must be powered off at this point)
•	Wait for all devices to connect and check them through and wait for the connection “LED” in the AP experimental driver to turn red indicating a failure to connect. There will be a log warning about failure to connect to the mount.
•	Now power up the mount and click the connect button.
•	The mount gui will pop up and populate with the gui tabs in the mount driver. At this point the “start up” LED in the main connection tab will be red.
•	Ensure that a position reflective of the mount’s current position is set as “park from”. Most use position 3. Do not use “last parked” as this does not always work.
•	Click “cold start” – warm start no longer works in the revised driver so ignore this button.
•	The connection LED will turn green and mount should register in the log as parked.
•	You can set the “park to” at any point but now is a good time. Just ensure that you have a position (usually ”park 3 position) registered before you attempt to park the mount.
•	At this point go to the options tab and save the mount config.
•	Site management no longer has any user input options so only look at this tab to check site info.
•	At this point the mount icon may be still absent from the planetarium. Once you press unpark (use either the EKOS mount gui or indi – either work) the mount icon will appear at the set point (usually North or South pole) ensure that this is the case. This shows that the mount and KStars/Indi/EKOS all know where the mount is pointing.
•	If testing you can do a test slew but be prepared to abort if the mount is not going in the correct direction. Do not leave the mount unattended until you are sure that it is behaving normally.
•	Turn on tracking
•	You could slew the mount to a point near the meridian check that this is correct in the planetarium then slew across the meridian and check that the meridian flip occurs as expected. It is worth setting your limits on how far past the meridian you want the mount to track. The mount will only flip when slewing and will track happily for hours past the meridian but this always risks a pier strike so set the limits. I use 0.1 hours.
•	Once you are happy it is working OK I would park the mount and do your polar aligning process prior to slewing to your first object and plate solving to sync the mount accurately with KStars.

NOTE
If you need to disconnect the mount but have not powered down the mount and KStars is still running you can reconnect without powering down the mount. However you will always need to press cold start now before the mount will load up. Always save any new config in options.