The only thing that concerns me is this:

    # Save the image to the spooled image loader.
    # self.spooled_images.save_image(
    #     image=image, channel=channel_idx, slice_index=slice_idx
    # )
    
    If we try to go in the non-live mode, we now throw an error because no data is saved to the spooled_images object.
    
    (navigate) S155475@SW567797 ~ % Exception in thread z-stack Data:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/navigate/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 973, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/navigate/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 910, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "/Users/S155475/Desktop/GitHub/navigate/src/navigate/model/model.py", line 904, in run_data_process
self.show_img_pipe.send(frame_ids[-1])
File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/navigate/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 211, in send
self._send_bytes(_ForkingPickler.dumps(obj))
File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/navigate/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 416, in _send_bytes
self._send(header + buf)
File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/navigate/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 373, in _send
n = write(self._handle, buf)
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Thank you, Annie. This was a much bigger effort than anticipated, but it is a great addition to the software.