I have been running Astroberry for quite a few months, but never had as many problems as tonight. Last session was December 18th. Finally I get a clear night, bring out everything, as usual. Connect everything, VNC into the Pi, launch EKOS and my usual profile. Neither camera is recognized (D5300 or ASI 224MC). The only thing I did between December 18th and tonight was plugging in the Raspberry into my ethernet and run "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt upgrade".

I tried everything I could think of. Been outside since well before astronomical darkness (by 6 PM I had everything mounted and running). At 9.45 PM I called it quits and brought everything back inside.

I tried connecting only one camera, it works. Then another one, it works. Then the mount, then the hotspot gets dropped and I am back at square one. Turn it off, plug everything in, turn it back on - hotspot doesn't work, so I can't VNC into it. Disconnect everything, reboot, now the hotspot works. Plug the cameras, launch the profile, no camera plugged in message.

Any idea? I would like to solve this asap, since I am getting perfect skies on Sunday and I don't want to miss another opportunity. Here lately we get only clouds, rain and fog. So missing a clear night is like missing a months opportunity...

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