Sharpy

Thanks for the welcome. Your right, there isn’t much benefit for the price tag of the unit but I do intend to travel regularly out of the urban skies when we finally come out of lockdown and it provides the extra reassurance that time is precise to the second. Think it’s my OCD! Did use SkySafari for alignment/loc/time for awhile but you will be surprised how many times my tablets internal compass came out of alignment which then screwed with the scopes Goto

Hi my names Jordon. I just registered as I am having the same issue with exactly the same set-up and have found a temporary work around until hopefully Celestron find a solution. I know it doesn’t take long to manually enter time & location but I like to speed up the set-up process as much as possible so I can spend my precious time (have 2 young children who can wake up at any moment) on achieving precise polar alignments for astrophotography as I am on a wedge. Now I have found it doesn’t matter how you connect the WiFi/HC/SS with or without the splitter this will work. First turn-on and go to menu/time and location/time location source and turn on Manual entry then turn off scope. Next turn on again and do the same above but turn gps accessory as the source then wait for gps fix. Now start alignment procedure and you won’t have the SS ERROR. Now your kit will work perfectly until you turn off again. I know this isn’t perfect but you can avoid manually inputting until Celestron come up with a fix. Hope this helps