I'm aiming to use an old Starlight Xpress camera (SXVR-H9) as a guide camera. I'm testing it out as the main imager in EKOS using the SX CCD driver and a telescope simulator. I'm using kstars 3.6.9. The camera connects fine and everything seems to report ok. I can cool it down to -10C without issue, and I've set a temperature tolerance of 0.5C. The cooling does not seem to have a problem staying within that range. When I do some individual test captures, all is well and the image transfers. But if I do a sequence, such as a dark library run,

like in the attached screenshot, then it will usually hang at the point of image transfer during one of the exposures. I've checked that this is not an issue with the camera heating up above the set threshold. I attach an example log file, but I don't see anything obvious. The last lines of the log show me cancelling the run and stopping INDI, but there's nothing obvious happening just before that as far as I can see. I've tried swapping to a different USB port (using both USB2 and USB3 ports) but the same issue occurs.

Any help/insight appreciated.

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