indi-allsky Fix: Permanent RAW16 instead of 8-bit with the ZWO ASI678MC – how to prevent camera crashes at night

After several nightly failures of my Allsky camera under indi-allsky, it turned out that my ZWO ASI678MC camera switches to 8-bit at night and the Image Worker crashes. To prevent this, I had to set the recording format manually.

The following entry ensures that the camera remains reliably in RAW16 mode and no longer switches to 8-bit:

{
    "PROPERTIES": {},
    "SWITCHES": {
        "CCD_VIDEO_FORMAT": {
            "on": ["ASI_IMG_RAW16"],
            "off": ["ASI_IMG_RAW8"]
        }
    }
}

Since this adjustment, the system has been stable and there are no more nightly outages.

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