Hi,

Until recently I have been successfully using my Altair 183M camera mounted on a Meade LX90 with Kstars/EKOS on Ubuntu, until the latest INDI release. I'm using Kstars 3.5.4 Stable from the kstars-bleeding package. Now when I try to expose with the camera it almost always aborts the exposure. On the rare occasion that it does do something the image then fails to retrieve to the Kstars image viewer. The logs repeatedly report errors like the following:

[2021-08-09T18:08:37.603 BST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Altair AA183MPRO :  "[ERROR] Failed to snap exposure. Error: Unexpected failure "[2021-08-09T18:08:37.603 BST INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details.
"[2021-08-09T18:08:37.606 BST INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Restarting capture attempt

The INDI Control Panel does not provide any additional info. The camera works fine on the same system using the linux version of AltairCapture. So the camera and cable do not seem to be the problem. I also found the same problem when rolling back to an earlier Kstars version that had worked before. The only component I have not rolled back is the INDI library itself, which leads me to believe that the fault lies with it somewhere.

I'd be grateful for any help - Kstars/EKOS is a really great piece of software and I love using it.

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