Features

What does INDI offer?

• Open source

  INDI is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL v2+), you can use and modify the source code to fit your needs in any environment.

• Cross Platform

  INDI Library is a particular implementaion of the INDI protocol for POSIX operating systems. Currently, Linux, BSD, and OSX are supported. Windows support is under progress. Nevertheless, wINDI (3rd party software) is a complete .NET implementation of the INDI protocol and is available natively on Windows.

• XML Based

  INDI is small and easy is parse. The INDI protocol can be nested within other XML elements such as RTML to add constraints for automatic scheduling and execution.

• Client agnostic

  Clients learn the properties of a particular Device at runtime using introspection. This decouples the device driver implementation from clients. The device driver may be updated completely independent of the client.

• Distributed control

  With INDI server/client architecture, you can communicate with devices either locally or remotely transparently. INDI accommodates intermediate servers, broadcasting, and connection topologies ranging from one-to-one on a single system to many-to-many between systems of different genre.

• Wide range of support

  INDI supports many astronomical devices including telescopes, CCDs, focuser, spectrometers, and a lot more. Furthermore, INDI clients include popular astronomy software suites such as KStars, Xephem, SkyCharts, and CDC.