@thx8411
Last night I finally had clear enough weather, calm enough wind, a reworked cable management solution, and most importantly, time! The on-camera support worked flawlessly, as far as I could tell. However, I had some issue with my wifi around 2:15 am, after I went to sleep, so I didn't wind up guiding for long as I lost connectivity to my rpi4. Seems like my access points decided to play musical channels, according to Unifi.

For clarity, I have the sv305 pro connected to a usb 3 port on the pi and the st4 port on my mount, while my canon 1300d is connected to a usb2 port on the pi which I then connect to using VirtualHere, so losing wifi means I'm no longer imaging. To @JonCarleton's point, I may have to suck it up and learn how to use Ekos as opposed to APT for imaging so that connectivity issues won't ruin future imaging sessions. But I just love how APT is set up.

I also captured what I'm talking about when it comes to 12 versus 8 bit issues with the sv305. Specifically, what I interpret as unstable brightness/gamma in phd2. The guide and debug logs from phd2 are attached.

@jaytay
That sounds like a USB issue to me, but since the pi4 has the usb3 ports connected via pcie , bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. Do you have the sv305 pro connected to one of the usb 3 ports on the rpi4? What other, if any, devices do you have connected to the pi? Are you using a hub? What kind of power source do you have for the pi? Have you tried another cable?

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