Can you make ekos connect to mutipe INDI servers running different gear sets? i.e one server has mount, guider and focuser and another has imaging ccd.
Kstars has this ability allready in device manager but not in Ekos?

Hello.
You can chain the indiserver as you indiserver is a kind of device.

Have look with "indiserver --help"

As example with simulator you can do:
On first indiserver instance (As example 192.168.125.10) lunch the server with it requested drivers For example :<<indiserver -v indi_simulator_telescope>> It would run one instance connected to the telescope
On the second server you lunch it with <<indiserver -v "Telescope Simulator"@192.168.125.10 indi_simulator_focus>> It would connect the the first server and to the local fosuser.
-> "Telescope Simulator" is the name from the GetDefaultName() function. This is the name of the device you use when configure EKOS to work remote instead of local in KStars configuration.

Then you can connect via EKOs, or throuhg the device mannager (Ctrl-D) to the last indi server.

That's it. Regards

Thank you.

I didn't even think of chaining them at server startup. I'll try it tonight =)

You can also use indiserver -v *@192.168.125.10 indi_simulator_focus for all the drivers of the first server

Do I understand this rightly? Could I start on my kstars machine an indiserver that connects only eqmod and ghoto ccd and then start another one on my raspi that only uses the focuser but also includes the kstars machine and then I connect ekos to the raspi and I should get eqmod gphoto and fokuser accessible? (sorry for the many and's) This would solve A LOT of my problems.

Yup!

Awsome, it works! But i had to use this syntax:

Amazing as long as you work with commandline instructions. But what with ekos in Kstars?
Is it right that under ekos options you connect to a remote server being on localhost? Is ekos then launching a second indiserver on the local machine connecting to the one launched with a commandline instruction? Or is it just connecting as a client to the local commandline launched server?
I would avoid multiple indiservers passing data to each other even running on the local machine. Doesn't seem efficient to me.

I'm writing a tutorial on this topic now, so hopefully it should clear up any issues.

noste99 wrote: I would avoid multiple indiservers passing data to each other even running on the local machine. Doesn't seem efficient to me.

If you have a camera located remotely on a 'pig slow' network, ie, a wifi link, and multiple clients taking the same data, then it's more efficient to use a local server chained to the remote server. Using my example, for a year my all-sky camera was on the other end of a wifi link, and two clients taking the images from it. If both clients connect directly to the remote server, then two copies of each image are sent over wifi. But with a local server daisy chained to the remote end, then only one copy of the image is sent over the wifi link, and the local server sends one copy to each local client.

What is most efficient really depends on the rest of what is happening, and no one size fits all in this case.