Im trying to use my Canon 70D with qDSLRDashboard (android). Latest versions of both.

Ive used it for sunsets quite a lot so understand the basic workflow - it works nicely for those.

I've just tried my first sunrise and it was almost a complete failure. The problem being it wasnt adjusting/ramping anywhere near fast enough to cope with the lightening sky prior to sunrise resulting in my desperately trying to manually adjust (and resulting in a potentially unusable timelapse).
I was using Auto-NTC, 7 second intervals, average over 3 shots (so shouldnt be too long). The sunrise time etc was picked up correctly by the tablet.
Although the camera WAS ramping it just wasnt anything like aggressive enough.

Given im a complete beginner for sunrises, can anyone suggest what i did wrong or what settings i need to adjust? I basically had to sit by it the whole time manually adjusting exposures (which defeats the whole purpose of this).

Im 100% sure its user error and not an app/hardware issue.

(...and posting elsewhere my plea for help in fixing a timelapse created like this!)