How to connect the new Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro to ASIAIR?

les_b

Hi, does this fix work with the new AZ-EQ6 GT Pro?

picchimoreno

Tonal

Hello, does it work with ASIAIR first version (not PRO) as well?
tks

mike1485

A word of warning - although the original microSD card is 32gb I needed a 64gb card to fit this EQR6-Pro OS on to. I work on a Mac so downloaded The Unarchiver from the App Store to extract the .img file from the .rar downloaded from the above link. Then Apple Pie Baker to transfer the .img file to the 64gb microSD card. When connecting the EQ6R-pro to the ASIAIR Pro select EQMOD and set the baud rate to 115200. All now works fine 🙂.

crackout

I flashed the new OS image onto a new mSD card (64GB).
When booting up the system, I was prompted to update the firmware as well (the OS came with 6.xx). I guess this is fine? The FW updates never touched the underlying drivers, so this new OS should be fine for any coming firmware update, correct?

w7ay

crackout I was prompted to update the firmware as well (the OS came with 6.xx).

This is perfectly fine, since the download consists of the firmware for ASIAIR v1.5.

The new ASIAIR app should be able to update the microSD card just fine.

Chen

Doversole

I am a Windows 10 user. I followed the instructions and downloaded Win32driveimage. Unfortunately it doesn't work on Win 10. I tried on a different PC, same result. Do you know if there is another software I can use (Rufus maybe?) to insalll the Iso image on my micro SD card? What's the required configuration in terms of partition and system file?

Doversole

So apparently Win32DiskImager can't start on Windows 10 because of a conflict with a virtual drive (like Google drive or Pcloud). I will try again unmounting pcloud before opening Win32DiskImager.
I can now confirm it all works when unmounting the virtual drive before launching Win32DiskImager. I now have a new OS that recongnises the Eq6-R Pro. Thanks!

crackout

Just out of curiosity: Would ZWO be able to update these drivers with a FW update rolled out via the ASIAIR app?

mart

Hello! Its impossible to download, crashes at around 1GB, tried like 5 times! Is there an alternative download link? Thanks!

Tonal

mart
I downloaded it few days ago without any problem, but unfortunately I have ASIAIR v1 and it doesn’t work with it. I’m stuck…

johnnyderskeptiker

Tonal I've got the same problem! My second ASIAIR PRO works just fine!

PLEASE supply an update for version 1 too!

cocazoulou

Hello,
The same fix solved the issue with my brand new Celestron AVX. Where the Serial port wasn't detected.
Hoping it will help someone else since I pass a week searching about it.

Tonal

cocazoulou
do you have ASIAIR PRO or ASIAIR first version?
thanks

NorthernNeck1

It makes sense to pin this post at the top of your bulletin board, as the failures are ramifying pretty rapidly. May I ask whether ZWO could make available pre-loaded and ASIAir Pro-compliant SD cards that will work with the CGX (and other similarly situated) mounts? I am willing to pay for this service, as I have indicated in e-mails to you, but you might even consider this as a service to your loyal customer base, who are generally favorably impressed with the quality of your product line.

sunshinestars

I have been working with the ASI AIR Pro and my EQ6R-Pro mount for 2 months now. I have tried every possible setting including buying an EQMOD cable and eliminating the hand controller. Sometimes it seems to be working fine and out of the blue it loses its RA and Dec information and gets lost in the sky. Sometimes when I attempt to plate solve it tells me it cant plate solve with the scope within 5 degrees of the NCP but I'm no where near the NCP!

Bottom line - I'm very disappointed in this device. It seems to have more bugs than a crack whore house and it obviously not ready for prime time. I have better things to do then be a beta tester for ZWO.

DTG

Hi ZWO, when will this be downloadable again?

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crackout

Has anyone tried SkySafari with this new build?
When I connect the mount via EQMOD with SkySafari and Select Skywatcher Synscan in the SkySafari app, I cannot connect to the mount with the app.

Does this only work if the ASIAIR is connected via the handcontroller?

w7ay

crackout EQMOD with SkySafari

For EQMOD, ASIAIR opens a proxy server that emulates an LX200 mount. ASIAIR will translate LX200 commands that are sent to this proxy server into EQMOD API calls when a third party software is connected to this proxy.

The LX200 proxy server is located at Port 9624 of the ASIAIR's IP address.

You need to set up SkySafari as if it is talking to an LX200 mount, and then connect to said proxy server.

Chen

crackout

Alright, thanks.
Is it a problem if I keep SkySafari connected while the AAP is guiding?
Will there be an interference somehow?

boogiemk4

Works great! Followed the instructions, used a Windows 10 PC to write the SD card.

My AZ-EQ5GT mount (manufactured December 2020) now can be connected by the USB port on the mount.

My EQMOD cable recently purchased didn't work, now works too! Probably they use new chips on these latest batch of EQMOD cables.

Thanks ZWO team! Nice work!

Hallthorr

Hi there
after the update from 8.11 to 8.24 everything worked fine for me! Thank you ZWO for the support.
(EQ6-R Pro new manufactured batch from Jun/Jul 2021)

Right now, I've got just a little "problem"

One first startup with 8.24 on Win10; Bluestacks 5 I got the message that the App version is out of date. I wasn't able to update it and so I choose "not now" and went through the setup.

Any suggestion to fix that on Bluestacks 5?

PS.: If you are not comfortable with Win32 Disk Imager, try the Raspberry Pi Imager
(https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/) and:

Start Raspberry Pi Imager
Scroll down to "Own Image"
Select the ASIair Pro Image
Select the MicroSD
Write & Verificate
Worked perfectly for me and was pretty easy to use.

Looking forward to take some great pictures! 😃