I am currently experimenting with macro time lapse videos... Like seeds growing. I wanted to use Helicon Remote and Helicon Focus to perform the picture taking, storing in a folder, and then have Focus monitor that folder to automatically combine the stacks and store the result in a separate folder ...

I am excited to have a newly purchased FB Tube coming...

But, just curious, in the Tools menu in Helicon Remote I see at the bottom "FB Tube mode" as a checkable item. But I can find it described anywhere...

What does this do?

Then, how exactly does this "Yes, we have customers who use the tube with remote shutter releases, remote timers, intervalometers." work?

On the note of using the FB Tube for timelapse with focus stacking... After shooting a stack, and the shutter is released, does the FB Tube return the focus to the initial position for the next stack?

I just ordered mine for the specific purpose of focus stacking macro photography timelapses but ...