Clients
INDI clients are the programs you use to directly control your devices. There are numerous clients implementations that are tailored to specific requirements. But the most popular clients are the generic GUI clients. GUI clients are capable of running any INDI driver.
The following is a list of popular INDI clients:
| Name | Description | Cost | License | Operating Systems | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KStars | KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. In addition, it provides tools to perform many astronomical calculations, an observation planner, and lots of information and resources to help you explore the universe! | Free | GPL | Linux, BSD, OSX, Windows | INDI Library for KStars is only available for Linux, BSD, and OSX. |
| Ekos |
Ekos is a tool that aims to provide astronomers using Linux with a single, consistent, and extensible framework to perform astrophotography tasks. This includes polar alignment using drift method, auto-focus & auto-guide capabilities, and capture of single or stack of images with filter wheel support. | Free | GPL | Linux, BSD, OSX | Ekos is part of KStars. |
| Cartes Du Ciel | Cartes du Ciel is a free planetarium program for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. With the change to version 3, Linux has been added as a target platform, licensing has changed from freeware to GPL and the project moved to a new website. The software maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope. It can also download Digitized Sky Survey Charts and superimpose images over these charts. Numerous star charts and indexes can be installed. There are also telescope interfaces and many versatile display options. | Free | GPL | Linux, OSX, Windows | Cartes Du Ciel only supports telescope control. |
| DCD | DCD is a platform independent user interface for remote telescope and device control, compatible with the INDI standard. | Free | GPL | Linux, BSD, OSX, Windows | |
| INDI For Java | The INDI for Java is a set of libraries (written in the Java programming language) to implement Clients (graphical and not graphical ones), Drivers and Servers that follow the INDI distributed control protocol, a protocol designed to operate astronomical instrumentation. The library provides an Android client as well (version 8 or higher). | Free | GPL | Linux, OSX, Windows | |
| OpenPHD | The PHD Guiding software from Stark Labs is a popular, free package for telescope autoguiding on Macs and PCs. The goal of this project is to bring PHD Guiding to developers on Linux, OS X, and Windows. | Free | BSD | Linux, OSX, Windows | |
| wINDI | wINDI is an INDI wrapper and INDI server for ASCOM drivers. It was developed as a supporting module for jINDI cross platform observatory control software, but can be used for personal or educational purposes for free with any other INDI client running on the same or a remote machine (e.g. KStars, XEphem or CdC). | Free | Propietary | Windows | |
| jINDI | jINDI is a project of cross platform observatory control software based on INDI protocol. It consists of jINDI protocol and jINDI GUI. | Propietary | Windows, Linux, OSX | Not officially released yet. |
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