ASIAIR Plus
Celestron CGEM II EQ Mount

When connecting the ASIAir Plus to my new Celestron CGEM II Mount, the Lat/Long RA/DEC #s get screwed up and the mount gets very confused and starts slewing all over the place. I have confirmed mount settings with a fine tooth comb, changed the battery in the mount, etc.

When doing a Polar Align, the system will do step 1, and then it is supposed to rotate 60 degrees to do another plate solve.. Sometimes the mount will actually rotate to the left. Often it does nothing. If it does rotate to the left, it usually will never actually do the photo and plate solve. Once in a while it will rotate 20 degrees the other direction, and then just sit there. My workaround is to keep the mount turned off, click SKIP when presented with the warning dialog and do a drift align.
My coordinates should be at W111.27.4814. When I tell the ASIAIR I have the Celestron CGEM mount, and turn it on, my longitude becomes one of two things – either E248... or E111. I have confirmed that the coordinates were input into the mounts hand controller accurately and they were correct before connecting.
If I tell the ASIAir my mount is a Skywatcher Synscan, then the coordinates stay correct for the most part. However, the system seems to have trouble finding the objects (maybe the commands for the Skywatcher are just enough different that the end result still doesn’t work as a fully functional workaround).
If I have the Skywatcher set as the mount, then I have a green synch to mount button, and I can push correct cords back. However, if I put it back to Celestron and then go to an object to view or photograph, it looks like the ASIAIR changes the cords from W to E again. Also, if the mount chosen is Celestron, there is no “synch to mount” button (many folks keep saying to use that to synch everything together).
I am not sure if the latest firmware upgrade caused the issue. It seems that initially the system worked fine. Then the ASIAIR pushed a firmware (the user has no choice to take it), and the mount now acts like it is on drugs. Last night it looked at the center of the earth to find the moon. I have been unable to roll back to a previous firmware, and am not sure if that is even possible.
It seems like this issue of the ASIAIR pushing an E command instead of W for longitude has been going on for quite awhile, and not just with Celestron mounts. It does however seem to be very prevelant with those.