I noticed that when I connect the mount to SGP it seems to use the last known mount position (RA and DEC) instead of getting the current position of the mount from the mount. Once the mount slews the current mount position is updated.
Is this by design?
When my mount is lost, if I disconnect it from SGP then with the mount software (APCC for my Astro-Physics mount) I fix the position, once I reconnect the mount in SGP it has the old (wrong) position. Slewing somewhere appears to be based on the incorrect position, so it slews to never-never land.
It would be nice if upon connection, SGP queried the mount for its position and used that.
Im not 100% sure I follow here. Are you referring to the displayed location on the control panel’s Telescope tab? If so, that is updated once every 10 seconds. SGPro does not store telescope positions in cache anywhere so if an old position is displayed it is coming from the driver itself.
I was looking at the telescope docking window in SGP, not the Control Panel when I saw that SGP and APCC had drastically different RA and DEC values when I connected to the mount.
I also did not look at the values in the AP ASCOM driver to see if they matched APCC or SGP. I will see if I can recreate the problem and check all locations.
When SGP connects to the mount, does it update the coordinates immediately, or after 10 seconds?