I am binning 4x4 and using 4second exposures, so its getting plenty of stars to solve off. I can't figure out what has slowed down the Stellarmate so much, it used to solve in 5-15seconds. It also gets no faster after a successful solve either, say when you are moving only ~1-2 degree's to centre an object for an imaging run......
The actual command that is executed should be logged in the console of Ekos. Maybe you can copy and paste it into an terminal to see what's causing this?