Darktable: tethering not available

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I wanted to check out tethered shooting with my Canon R5 once more but I still can’t get it working. I compiled dt with gphoto2 support, gphoto2 lists all capabilities, tethered shooting with gphoto2 works fine yet darktable says no camera with tethering support found.

Output of darktable -d camctl 2>1 >camctl.log:

darktable 4.7.0+481~g0ae3ba3600
Copyright (C) 2012-2024 Johannes Hanika and other contributors.

Compile options:
  Bit depth              -> 64 bit
  Debug                  -> DISABLED
  SSE2 optimizations     -> ENABLED
  OpenMP                 -> ENABLED
  OpenCL                 -> ENABLED
  Lua                    -> ENABLED  - API version 9.3.0
  Colord                 -> ENABLED
  gPhoto2                -> ENABLED
  GMIC                   -> ENABLED  - Compressed LUTs are supported
  GraphicsMagick         -> ENABLED
  ImageMagick            -> DISABLED
  libavif                -> ENABLED
  libheif                -> ENABLED
  libjxl                 -> ENABLED
  OpenJPEG               -> ENABLED
  OpenEXR                -> ENABLED
  WebP                   -> ENABLED

See https://www.darktable.org/resources/ for detailed documentation.
See https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/new/choose to report bugs.

     0.7743 [camera_control] creating new context 0x5aa3e7be25f0
     0.7842 [camera_control] loaded 2668 camera drivers.
     4.3256 [camera_control] loaded 40 port drivers.
     4.3706 [camera_control] 1 cameras connected
     4.3706 [camera_control] found new Canon EOS R5 on port usb:003,004
     8.0817 [camera_control] destroy darktable camcontrol
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Make sure your desktop environment isn’t mounting your camera automatically.

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how did you start tethering - heading over to the tethering view or via import module?

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Via the tethering view

and the camera was unmounted before trying

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then you need to need to connect your camera first (see darktable 4.6 user manual - overview)

After the USB cable is connected, go to the import module in the lighttable view. If your camera is available for use, a new section should appear in the import module containing the name of your camera and a “mount camera” button. Click this button to connect your camera and three additional buttons will appear: “copy & import from camera”, “tethered shoot” and “unmount camera”. Click “tethered shoot” to enter the tethering view. When you are finished, press the “unmount camera” button before physically disconnecting it.

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Thanks, must have missed that.