mne_gui_addons locate_ieeg GUI crashes after marking second electrode on macOS (arm64)

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Hi all,
I’m using mne_gui_addons.locate_ieeg to mark iEEG electrodes manually on a CT coregistered to an MRI (FreeSurfer) on macOS 15.5 (Apple Silicon, arm64).

The GUI starts correctly, and I can mark the first electrode with no issue. However, right after marking the second electrode, the program crashes silently — no traceback, just a sudden termination. This happens consistently, both when running via VSCode and via terminal.

In one case, I traced the crash to the following error:

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TypeError: _PyVistaRenderer.set_camera() got an unexpected keyword argument 'reset_camera'

This suggests an incompatibility between mne_gui_addons and either pyvista or pyvistaqt, possibly specific to Apple Silicon. I tried multiple combinations of versions and environments.

Here is my environment summary from mne.sys_info():

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Platform             macOS-15.5-arm64-arm-64bit
Python               3.11.9 | packaged by conda-forge
CPU                  Apple M4 Pro (14 cores)

Core
- mne               1.9.0
- numpy             1.26.4
- scipy             1.15.2
- matplotlib        3.10.1 (backend=QtAgg)

Numerical
- sklearn           1.6.1
- numba             0.59.1
- nibabel           5.3.2
- nilearn           0.11.1
- dipy              1.11.0
- openmeeg          2.5.6
- pandas            2.2.3
- h5io              0.2.5
- h5py              3.8.0

Visualization
- pyvista           0.45.0
- pyvistaqt         0.11.2
- vtk               9.2.6
- qtpy              2.4.3 (PyQt5=5.15.8)
- mne-qt-browser    0.7.1

Other
- Apple Silicon (arm64), no Rosetta
- Using conda (conda-forge) to manage dependencies
- Tried also on Python 3.10 with same behavior

Any advice on known compatible combinations or workarounds would be appreciated. Thank you!