pier side is back. You can use script cold_start_part1.sh to fetch/compile it from my repo.
You wrote that you completed the procedures successfully. Beyond that did you observe any failures/glitches?
Michael Fulbright's version worked only West of Greenwich but not East as
Spartacus
pointed out in this forum. Since files lx200ap.cpp and lx200ap_gtocp2.cpp contain the same error:
if (setAPUTCOffset(PortFD, fabs(utc_offset)) < 0)
I'd like to clean up the code and unify the driver for all GTOCPX and firmware versions (I still use D) as my next task.
Concerning renaming/checkout an earlier version I can not do much. That's up to Jasem. But if the current bleeding edge driver does not fail I'm recommending to keep it.