Eclipse timing variations (ETV) have been a successful tool for detecting
circumbinary companions to eclipsing binaries (EB). While TESS and Kepler have
been prolific for ETV searches, they sometimes can be limited by time and sky
coverage which can be addressed by specialised ground-based ETV surveys. We
present the initial results from the Solaris photometric survey which uses four
0.5m robotic telescopes in the southern hemisphere to look for circumbinary
companions. We present the method of light curve extraction, detrending, and EB
modelling using the observations from the Solaris network. Using these light
curves we extract precise eclipse timing for 7 EB and look for companions using
a Lomb-Scargle periodogram search. We find two possible periodic signals for
the target GSC 08814-01026. With the system having strong activity, we check
for the feasibility of orbital solutions at these two periods. We find that the
245 +/- 1 d period is due to an M-dwarf mass companion. This makes GSC
08814-01026 a candidate compact hierarchical triple system. The other periodic
signal at 146 +/- 1 d is an artefact of stellar activity.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS. This is a
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