In the case where the Ekos profile is set to "remote". Drivers include a camera and the Astrometry auxiliary driver.
Running Kstars under gnu debugger, setSolverMode runs when an Ekos profile is loaded.

mode == SOLVER_REMOTE is true but m_RemoteParserDevice is null.

so remoteParser.reset is called which should result in a new value for parser and m_RemoteParserDevice

but it does not. So setAstrometryDevice will fail and further down, parser may not get connected to the CCD camera.

which may be related to the problem that solve-field never receives the camera blob when "capture and solve" is requested in the alignment module.

Does this make any sense?

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