- Turn camera off - Use high quality white cable for USB - Use USB 2 port on FlatGalaxyU This can be seen in lsusb as per below. - Turn camera on The camera will say "Connecting USB" but no image will be shown. - The camera can be detected by Ubuntu with the below but no need to actually do it. jd@FlatGalaxyU:~$ lsusb .. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 015: ID 054c:0954 Sony Corp. ILCE-7S .. jd@FlatGalaxyU:~$ gphoto2 --auto-detect Model Port ---------------------------------------------------------- Sony Alpha-A7S (Control) usb:001,015 - Startup KStars - Startup Ekos - Start INDI devices with a profile that has the "GPhoto CCD" device driver INDI control panel will startup with a tab for "GPhoto CCD" with a green ball denoting success. - In Ekos "CCD" panel the live preview (orange webcam eye) can be started with 25 fps. - Recording works as well to a useless .ser video file. - Recording a preview causes the driver to crash. - Restart the driver causes KStars to crash. So just close out using "Setup" tab, Disconnect and stop buttonS next time. - Restarting KStars detects a running INDI instance that can be restarted. - Enable debugging in "GPhoto CCD" Options fails because: 2020-12-30T22:21:05 Re-disabling debug logging for GPhoto CCD... 2020-12-30T21:21:06: [INFO] Debug is disabled. 2020-12-30T21:21:06: [INFO] Debug is enabled. - Skipping preview image - Doing one 1s capture without ISO setting fails to save: 2020-12-30T21:22:50: [INFO] Starting 1 seconds exposure. 2020-12-30T21:22:50: [ERROR] Exposure failed to save image... Unspecified error It does show in the FITS viewer but does not save and is not save-able. The save button is greyed out for it. - Set image setting width and heigth to 4288 by 2848. - Set image info to 8.4 um and 12 bits/pixel but taken as 8 bits. - Processes keep crashing and showing errors...