Glad to hear you're making progress. I seem to recall I had been using internal guiding without problems, but like you, I also stopped using guiding for a variety of reasons.

#1 - using a long local length telescope and an OAG it's still quite hard to find stars for every target, which due to the way EKOS handles errors means that a sequence is abandoned when guiding can't be started (rather than going unguided and capturing the best data it can) WHICH BRINGS ME TO #2
#2 - with mounts like the Paramount ME (and the APs, 10Microns, Planewaves etc) it's generally speaking easier to go without, perhaps with the occasional re-target part way through a sequence just to get back on target

So I've really stopped caring.

Having said that you remind me that I recall a similar issue where the Paramount was guiding fine for quite some time and then "lost its mind", but I can't recall if this was INDI or TheSkyX I was guiding with....

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