I always run the S50 with an external USB power bank (-10C temperatures, so anti dew heater is always on). I have never seen zero dropped frames in a whole year. The best I can get is five 10-second frames every minute for a few minutes, then a couple of minutes of dropped frames, star trails or simply stalled counter, then it starts working again and this repeats. As the total exposure time increases, the efficiency keeps dropping until you have to stop the capture and start again.
Everything, both starts and stops are manual, you have to be awake in the middle of the night, monitor the progress phone in hand and press the damned button. I tried setting up alarms but that's even worse, you wake up in the middle of the night to a wasted 2-hour session.
It would be so trivial to start a capture, automatically end it after a time interval you set, say 5 or 10 minutes, then automatically repeat the process the entire night while the user sleeps. Of course, full automation with session planning would be infinitely better, but anything would be better than the sleepless nights ZWO forces on its users now.
As Support@Seestar just pointed out in a different thread, "implementing these features requires discussions across multiple departments. Development also takes time, and there are many requests to consider." Which is marketing-speak for "it's not going to happen this year either, thanks for asking".
