Last evening I attempted to capture some flat images using Ekos CCD tab.

The captured images were directed to the Pi device.

I was able to capture 7 flats but with quite a bit of download latency.  (The pop up showed 11 seconds but it likely was longer between images).

On the 8th image the capture errored out; this was what was on my screen.

 

I tried shutting down and coming back up again but could not get the capture process working.  It would try once with the long delay and then the camera clicked at good capture speed with errored out images.

Normally the download takes around 5 seconds, but I've not been able to capture images to a USB flash drive due to download latency.

I believe some updates over the weekend may have helped in one area but created some extra latency.

Here is the error message that I am seeing on the Nikon screen.

 

Any ideas in doing a test to see what's going on?  Might there be a setting or 2 that I need to review?

In the future I might do some house wiring projects to get the proper circuit run outside to connect a TP Link power line type adapter to my network.

However my EQ6R mount is directly outside my door so I should have adequate WiFi signal.

Really hoping to be able to finally get my Ekos setup for the EQ6R mount up and running.

 

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