INDI Library v1.7.0 is Released

INDI development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.7.0. This new exciting release builds on the maturity of INDI Library and comes with many new supported devices and fixes for existing drivers. Here are some of the highlights:

  + Updated QHY SDK.
  + FLI drivers are now based on libusb rather than legacy kernel driver.
  + New CEM120 mount driver.
  + New Explore Scientific PMC8 driver
  + Several memory leaks were fixed.
  + Added support for background flushing for FLI CCDs.
  + Added preliminary support for CCD rapid captures on the millisecond range.
  + SX CCD driver updated to support ICX453 & M25C.
  + SX AO driver updated to emply INDI serial connection plugin.
  + Fix timing issue with GPhoto making it stuck in busy state after initial capture.
  + ASI driver enhancements. Video format recall fix.
  + MaxDomeII driver refactored and updated.
  + Several fixes for Gemini Integra driver.
  + Polling period for most drivers is now customizable.
  + GPhoto driver supported Abort exposure. Subframing fixes.
  + GPS driver can set system time from GPS source.
  + Astrophyics Experimental Driver with multi-parking support.
  + Numerous OnStep driver fixes and updates.
  + SkySensor2000 Pulse guiding support.
  + Prevent sandbox ACCESS_VIOLATION on Gentoo
  + Celestron driver refactoring and support for high-precision formats.
  + Fixed script execution in scripting gateways
  + Fix flags for Cygwin.
  + Fix non-standard POSIX C functions.
  + Replace deprecated usleep with nanosleep.
  + CCD & Telescope simulator updated so that can be used effectively in any combination with physical devices.

Thanks to all the great open source contributors who made this release possible: https://github.com/indilib/indi/graphs/contributors

INDI Library v1.6.2 is Released

Another quick release to fix missing cmake_modules directory and a joystick driver crash fix.

INDI Library v1.6.1 Is released

This is a bugfix patch release that resolves problems with INDI version in INDI API.

INDI Library v1.6.0 is released!

INDI development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.6.0. This new exciting release builds on the maturity of INDI Library and comes with many new supported devices and fixes for existing drivers. Here are some of the highlights:

  + INDI Base Client is now supported on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
  + Added 10Micron Mount support.
  + Added spectrum support and libDSPAU.
  + Added NexDome support.
  + Added Pyxis Rotator support.
  + Added Pegasus Focuser support.
  + Added MBox Weather box support.
  + Added SnapCap dust cap and flat panel support.
  + Added Sesto-Senso focuser support.
  + Added USB_DewPoint support.
  + Added GPS-NMEA sources support.
  + Added Gemini Telescope Design Integra85 Focusing Rotator WIP support.
  + Added Lunatico's Armadillo and Platypus support.
  + Video Streaming support for MacOS.
  + Video Recording with libtheora (Optional).
  + Video Streaming with MJPEG encoder.
  + IOptron fixes and improvements.
  + More NextstarEvo improvements.
  + Dedicated Guider Simulator.
  + QHY & ASI updated to latest SDK.
  + Apogee fixes for MacOS.
  + INova fixes and improvements. Updated SDK.
  + QHY, Apogee, DSI builds for MacOS.
  + EQMod Horizon fixes.
  + Skywatcher Alt-Az Mount & Syncscan fixes and improvements including guide support.
  + StarSense support in Celestron Driver.
  + Improvements to mount parking & unparking.
  + New experimental Astrophysics Driver.
  + Support for Losmandy UDP protocol.
  + Fixed Dome slaving slew and tracking.
  + Added Radio Antenna Simulator.
  + New INDI Rotator Interface.
  + UDEV rule to disable automount of DSLR cameras.
  + Sky Quality Meter simulator.
  + Improvements to INDI GPS drivers.
  + TCFS Fixes.
  + SkySensorPC2000 fixes.
  + Fixed WatchDog behavior in case of unavailable dome.
  + Improved Continuous Integration support with Travis & CircleCI using Docker.

INDI Library v1.5.0 is released!

INDI development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.5.0. This new exciting release builds on the maturity of INDI Library and comes with many new supported devices and fixes for existing drivers. Here are some of the highlights:

  + New Detector Interface for photon and radio detectors.
  + New Software-Defined-Radio driver (RTLSDR).
  + New Connections plugin system to facilitate driver development.
  + New standardized tracking properties system for all mounts.
  + New Digital Settings Circiles (DSC) driver.
  + New Lacerta MGen driver.
  + New NightCrawler Focusing Rotator driver.
  + New Optec Gemini Focusing Rotater driver.
  + New iNovaPLX CCD driver.
  + QHY SDK update to 1.10.0. Support for QHY PoleMaster.
  + QSI SDK update to 7.6.0
  + Support for INDI client under Windows.
  + Support for Pier Side in many mount drivers.
  + Support for SkySafari.
  + Fix FLIUSB for 4.6 and 4.9 kernels.
  + Fixed wrong time format in generated SER files.
  + ZWO ASI drivers for MacOS.
  + Various GPSD fixes.
  + Proper handing of ISO8601 timestamps in the generated filenames.
  + Improved Gemini mount driver with more functionality and bug fixes.
  + Many V4L2 fixes and improvements. Support for V4L2 integer menus.
  + Ability to define multiple primary/guide scope configurations.
  + ZEQ25 Improvements and fixes.
  + NStep driver improvements and fixes.
  + Added Ccache support.
  + Support for Gotonova driver.
  + Added Unity Build support.
  + Improved Astrophysics driver.
  + Added USB connectivity to SQM device driver.
  + More robust handling of reading pier side from mount.
  + Warn client that no devices are detected in case of Multiple-Devices-Per-Driver drivers.
  + Added PEC control to INDI::Telescope. Each driver must handle the low level protocol to actually enable or disable PEC.
  + Added security (hardening) flags.
  + SoftPEC implementation for Virtuoso mounts in skywatcherAPIMount.
  + Added TELESCOP, OBSERVER, and OBJECT keywords to the FITS header.

INDI Library v1.4.1 Released

This is a minor bugfix release to fix installation of development headers issue in 1.4.0

INDI Library v1.4.0 released

INDI development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.4.0. This new exciting release builds on the maturity of INDI Library and comes with many new supported devices and fixes for existing drivers. Several improvements and enhancements are included in this release including native support for Cygwin and MacOS platforms in addition to Linux, BSD, and Windows (Client only).

The following is the change log for the release:
+ Support for HitecAstro DC Focuser.
+ Support for SQL-LE Sky Quality Meter unit.
+ Support for USB Focus V3.
+ Support for Quantum Filter Wheel.
+ Support for 10micron mounts.
+ ZWO ASI filter wheel support. Driver updated to latest SDK. Fix infinite loop exposure.
+ QHY driver updated to latest SDK.
+ Added preliminary support to TCP server connection for all mounts.
+ Updated and improved Nexstar Evo driver.
+ Fixed reset of filter wheel names to default values under some circumstances.
+ Fixed feedback loop issue in chained INDI server.
+ Handle correctly broken frames in FLI driver; convert time left from ms to seconds as it should be.
+ V4L2 CCD driver updated to properly work with DMK cameras.
+ Several bugfixes for Moravian CCD driver.
+ CCD Simulator allows for up to 4096x4096 resolution.
+ Raw color video streaming now uses RGB24 instead of RGBA to conserve bandwidth.
+ New Dome and Mount safety interlocks mechanism.
+ Fix the Virtuoso mount detection in SkyWatcherMountAPI driver.
+ Support relative driver paths to INDI server.
+ Fix property cache collision conflict in case of multiple devices per driver.
+ Moonlite driver can now sync to any value instead of reset to zero.
+ Store OBJECTRA and OBJECTDEC as sexigesimal strings.
+ New Axis Lock feature to limit joystick to specific motion axis.
+ INDI server now reaps zombie processes as they appear.
+ EQMod support for AUX encoder values. ST4 Guide Rates settings. PPEC Switches.
+ Fix for TELESCOPE_PIER_SIDE implementation in EQMod driver.
+ Several fixes for Pulsar2 driver.
+ Fix SER file generation for color frames. Added timestamps for each recorded frame. Support subframed video streams.
+ Debug and Logging options can be saved in the config file.
+ New CCD_TRANSFER_FORMAT property.
+ libindi can now be compiled under MacOS and Cygwin. Non-Linux specific 3rd party drivers are also supported under MacOS and Cygwin.
+ When a request for snooped is sent, it is echoed to drivers so that they send the snopped value immediately if it exists.
+ libindi shared library is dropped. libindi now offsers indidriver (shared), indiclient (static), and indiclientqt5 (static) libraries.
+ Legacy drivers removed: SkyCommander, Intelliscope, MagellanI, TruTech, SBIG STV

Minor bugfix release v1.3.1

• Support for Optec IFW Filter Wheel.
• Added new method in base client getBLOBMode to retrieve previously set BLOB mode for a device/property pair.
• QHY driver use software binning by default for all cameras.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements across all drivers.

New INDI Library release v1.3

Glad to announce a new release of INDI Library v1.3. Significant improvements to both the drivers and core libraries took place during the last few months including support for many new devices and vastly improved BLOB performance. The following is a short change log:

From 1.2.0 to 1.3.0

• Support for Shelyak eShel spectrograph.
  • Support for NStep focuser.
  • Support for ASI Filter Wheel.
  • Support for OneStep Telescope Controller.
  • Support for Moravian CCD driver.
  • Support for GigE machine vision cameras.
  • Experimental SSAG CCD driver.
  • Adding support for fast BLOB with ENCLEN. With Fast blob mode enabled, blob performance is now significantly faster.
  • FITS Min/Max calculations are disabled by default to save processing time unless explicitly enabled by the user at compile time.
  • Qt5 based client class is added to enable multiplatform client development.
  • New significantly faster base64 encoding/decoding routines.
  • Selectable alignment modes for INDI EQMod that includes built-in EQMod alignment and INDI Alignment Subsystem.
  • CCD sequence queue number is no longer limited to 999.
  • More Starlight Xpress CCDs cameras supported.
  • Updated Starlight Xpress Adaptive Optics driver.
  • Updated Temma Takahashi mount driver.
  • Updated Apogee CCD driver.
  • Updated QHY CCD driver with numerous fixes.
  • Updated FLI CCD driver.
  • Updated Pulasr2 driver.
  • Updated ASI CCD with support for arm64 architecture, 1600 model and a lot more.
  • Significant improvements to GPhoto driver including better support for Nikon DSLRs.
  • Improved GPSd driver.
  • New CCD_FILE_PATH property to indicate remote file path.
  • New TELESCOPE_PIER_SIDE property.
  • Dome & Telescope Scripting Gateway added.
  • Added support for servos in Indiduino
  • Fix BuiltinMathPlugin crash for Southern Hemisphere
  • Add scope park aware feature to the rolloff roof simulator
  • INDI Logs are now stored under ~/.indi/logs and arranged by date and time per driver.