I’m successfully combining driving my mount, polar alignment, focusing and platesolving using KStars etc, with capturing images of the planets with FireCapture in the Astroberry Server package on my 4G RPi4. However, each time I capture a video of a planet, FireCapture crashes. When I reopen it, some features no longer work, like the video capture timers. It carries on working well enough in manual mode, and saves the videos so I can carry on using it, but there are clearly a couple of bugs to sort out, but in FireCapture or in the interaction and handover with KStars? I don’t really know where to start posting my issues - here on the Indilib forum, or in some other forum?
I would also like some advice from the experts about how to correctly handover the functions of a camera from Ekos, after it has completed the autofocus process, to make it cleanly available to FireCapture for the next capture session. And then how to make it active again in Ekos so that it can once again be used for platesolving and focusing. Thanks for any suggestions!

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