My experiences with tethering using Linux openSuse, and with my Sony and my Canon and my Fuji, and not just with DT but with other applications left me unsatisfied.
I find it is slow and drains the batter something awful! I've completely given up on tethering. Now I just pop the card into the PC's reader and use my browser to move the files. The card looks like another disk and the transfer rate is a lot faster than the serial like of USB cables. I get none of the problems mentioned in this thread. I can imagine "out in the field", lacking spacer cards after a days intensive shooting and having filled what I have, and having no PC and laptop, laving to 'tether' to a portable hard drive to 'unload' the camera. But that is a completely different use case and doesn't involve DT. I strongly advise transferring from the card rather than tethering. The worst case is that you will need a card reader to plug into the USB port on your PC. You can get on on eBay for under a dollar, less than the cost a USB cable; Sometimes they come free with SD cards :-) I'm a proponent of K.I.S.S. If tethering doesn't work for you, if the work-flow is too awkward, the go with something that does work, that eases the work-flow. -- The only truly safe embedded system is one with an axe embedded in it. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org