Yes, entire storry with HQ Camer asupport on Stellarmate is very confusing if not missleding.

I to bought Stellarmate in belive that it support HQ Camera. Since then struggling with it and my HQ Camera with no luck. But there is hope at the end of the tunnel.

There are two versions os Stellarmate, 32 bit (buster, no longer supported) and 64bit (bullseye, supported).

32 bit version kinda supported HQ Camera witn indi-rpicam driver, but that driver was very buggy and long exposures didn't worked at all. See this: github.com/indilib/indi-3rdparty/issues/271

64 bit version support for HQ Camera (with libcamera library) will be ready when drivers for it are tested and finished.
Curently there are two drivers in the works:
- indilib.org/forum/ccds-dslrs/12177-indi-libcamera-driver.html
- github.com/scriptorron/indi_pylibcamera

So our best hope is to support authors of both drivers as much as we can with testing and moral support.

@Jasem if you are reading this, please see this github.com/scriptorron/indi_pylibcamera/issues and this github.com/raspberrypi/picamera2/issues/502

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