I'm using an SX Filter Wheel on a Linux machine. I startup the server with

indiserver indi_sx_wheel

> startup: indiserver indi_sx_wheel
> Driver indi_sx_wheel: Searching for HID Device VID: 0x1278 PID: 0x920
> Driver indi_sx_wheel: iconv() failed
> Driver indi_sx_wheel: iconv() failed

I've added the EPEL repo, but it seems the libnova library is only in the CentOS 7 EPEL repo. The CentOS 8 EPEL repo does not contain libnova. Is there another way for me to install this library without downloading from a repo? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I'm still getting used to Linux-based systems.

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Thank you for the suggestions. I was able to find all of these libraries for CentOS 8 except for the first two: libnova and libnova-devel. I was only able to find them for CentOS 7. Is there another way I can build these two libraries on CentOS?

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Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone has had success installing the INDI Library and PyIndi on CentOS 7/8?

I had success installing it on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine, but now would like to get it working on CentOS. I first tried installing the prerequisites but had no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Ohhh ok, thank you! I'm very new to the INDI Library so I'm still figuring things out. I really appreciate it!

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As far as I can tell, when running indi_getprop, there's no way to control the temperature setpoint. When I ran this CCD using Starlight's own GUI software, there was an option to set the temperature setpoint.
The only available properties I see for this CCD, relating to temperature/cooling, are:

• CCD_TEMPERATURE.CCD_TEMPERATURE_VALUE
• CCD_COOLER.COOLER_ON
• CCD_COOLER.COOLER_OFF

I'm using an SX CCD SXVR-H694 camera. When trying to get/set my CCD's cooler using

indi_getprop "SX CCD SXVR-H694.CCD_COOLER_POWER.CCD_COOLER_VALUE"

Ah wow, I figured it out. Very simple haha.
The 1D byte array that blob.getblobdata() returns IS the contents of the FITS file, in its entirety. All I had to do was open a new binary file and write this array to it:

fits = blob.getblobdata()
f = open('/dir/image.fits', 'wb')
f.write(fits)
f.close()

Thank you for the link, but I'm still a little confused.
I'm new to using Indi, and I'm using the PyIndi wrapper, so I'm not quite sure how to use the CCD::processBLOB. The code I started with is from the example here: www.indilib.org/develop/indi-python-bindings.html .

The relevant part at the end, where I receive the blob's data:

for blob in ccd_ccd1:
print("name: ", blob.name," size: ", blob.size," format: ", blob.format)
fits=blob.getblobdata()
print("fits data type: ", type(fits))
# here you may use astropy.io.fits to access the fits data
i+=1

The format of "blob" returns a bytearray object, and the size is 12104640.
Using astropy.io.fits I can create the fits file but the data is 1D. Can I make a call to CCD::processBLOB somehow to convert this into a 2D byte array that FITS viewers like?

Thank you again for the help.

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I'm using PyIndi to make a client that connects to an indiserver for an SX_CCD. This particular CCD is the SX CCD SXVR-H694.

When I receive the blob from the CCD, the type is FITS but it's a 1D bytearray object, not 2D.

How do I go about converting this into the necessary format to save to a FITS file for viewing?

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