For the sake of completeness and in case anyone else is experiencing this issue I will present the two workarounds I found.
Firstly, INDI comes packaged with a couple
command line options
that will allow one to see and set various parameters. The output of indi_getprop is easily parsed for automated data collection.
Additionally, INDI also supports the use of
D-BUS
. The linked tutorial is a tad out of date but is still applicable to Python 3. Though, I did find I did not need to initialize gobject or use dbus.glib, which is now a depreciated module.
Personally, I will be sticking to D-BUS for now as it also allows for interactions with Ekos, such as triggering auto-focus.