Right, as I said, I am able to script an autostart mostly. There are a few quirks that I listed. They may or may not be bugs. Devs may want to add the whole autostart scenario as a feature and make it working nicely, or just keep the bag of little features that one can use to script an autostart as needed.
The HW problem was just a nudge to think about autostart. Of course I should solve that problem somehow, but there will always be something. Every version of Ekos has a new kind of bug that may throw it off guard in a tricky circumstances, for example. I am thinking about setting up a watchdog that would restart like if no new images came out in last N minutes. External watchdog and recovery protocol is a good practice for any system that is supposed to run on its own for a long time.

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