Stellarium - no scope reticle is sky display

[chrisowen66]

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can assist with this issue.....I have a Skywatcher 10" Dob AZ Goto, My handset recently died so I'm trying to now use Stellarium to control the scope, mainly to slew to objects. It's all set up - RS232 cable + adaptor, latest version of Stellarium, scope powered up....I've gone through all the Stellarium configue settings and all seems ok. The only seeting that was confusing was whether to select "Skywatchet Synscan AZ Goto" or "Skywatcher Synscan V3 or later" , so I've tried both. Com port is selected. Configure window even reported 'connected' when i exited. But then no scope reticle appears in the Stellarium sky display. And nothing happens when I select an object and presss ctrl + 1. Is it possibly because I've not done a star alignment? But how would I do that without a handset? Thanks!