CCDciel supports the SAMP (Simple Application Messaging Protocol ).
You can read more information about SAMP on its page www.ivoa.net/documents/WD/App/SAMP-20080625.html
Also, look at the list of the SAMP software and SAMP clients: wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SampSoftware

Oleg, this is awesome!
I have just given it a try on my Raspberry Pi it works perfectly. At first glance it might be used as a on-device main control interface (using RPi LCD).
I will seriously consider CCDciel for my Astroberry project. Seems to be perfect GUI for on-device INDI control.

Are you planning to support Lin_guider besides PHD? The latter has known performance issues when running on Raspberry so Lin_guider support would be very useful.

Thanks for nice piece of astro software!

pch (Patrick Chevalley) is the author of CCDciel and EqmodGui.
See his page sourceforge.net/u/pchev/profile/

P.S. You can test other new software from Patrick:
INDI starter
A simple program to run a INDI server

That's right I realized this just after posting. Thanks for directions.

For sure you can thanks Oleh for all the idea it give me for this software and for all the testing it do.

It is probably possible to add support for Lin_guider, the program code is ready for this kind of extension.
The problem I have with Lin_guider is it not support my DMK21 guiding camera, and programming without testing is very difficult. Too bad it not support INDI camera.
Maybe I can add INDI support to Lin_guider, I already rewrite the PHD2 INDI client last year, but I not have enough free time right now.

Patrick

Patrick, thanks for this. I do appreciate your work.
CCDciel is very nice all-in-one astro control panel. It would perfectly fit into a small device using arm cpu. I believe that lin_guider and xephem integration additionally to skychart and phd would make it even better They are way less demanding when it comes to resources use.
I will be looking forward to some good news from you.

Hi,

New version 0.2.0 of CCDciel is now available from sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/files/
The main change are:
- As indicated by Oleh a few days ago, use any SAMP capable application as the planetarium instead of only Skychart. Aladin work fine.
- Correctly support driver stopped by indi-iscd or indistarter.
- Support image compressed by the indi driver.
- New package for Mac OSX (almost untested).

There is also a new application INDIstarter intended to offer a gui interface to start a INDI server and the drivers.
From the gui you can define different equipment profiles with the required drivers and start then on the local computer or remotely using a ssh connection.
If the server is to run remotely a ssh tunnel is also established to allow access to the server by the local client software.
You can find the source code and packages for Intel Linux here:
sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/

Patrick

Thank you Patrick! It's a great thing for smaller machines.
My 7y old netbook will be happy to run it. Looking to test CCDCiel outdoor with proper data.

A small feature request: can you add a switchable reticle or/and cross hair to the preview tab ?

Patrick,
I like the compact size and relative completeness. I will be testing this application. I could not figure out what the Frame section under the capture window did?? What are the acceptable values?
Do you plan to add auto focus?
Auto focus every x frames?
This has a lot of promise... Bruce

Hi,

Sure, reticle is among the features I want to add.
Autofocus is also planned , but for now it is a hot summer with more outdoor activities than programming

The Frame section is related to the CCD_FRAME INDI property, something other software call ROI.
Valid values range from 0 to your CCD size.
You can use the keyboard Shift key + left mouse button to set the frame area.

Patrick

This -- > "outdoor activities" , enjoy the hot summer