Building INDI tutorials

INDI Library currently ships with seven tutorials in the examples subdirectory. To build the tutorials, first install some pre-requisties on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install cdbs cmake git libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev

Then checkout INDI Library code from Github and build it:

mkdir ~/Projects
cd ~/Projects
git clone https://github.com/indilib/indi.git
mkdir -p build/indi
cd build/indi
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ~/Projects/indi
sudo make install

To run tutorial one for example, simply run:

indiserver -v examples/tutorial_one/tutorial_one

This will create an INDI server running tutorial one driver on port 7624 (by default) on the local machine. You can connect to the INDI server using any INDI compatible client such as KStars. If you are using KStars, perform the following steps:

Select the Device Manager menu item from the Tools menu
Select the client tab and add a new host
Click Connect in the device manager to connect to INDI server running Tutorial One
Client Connect/Disconnect to test tutorial one simple functionality in INDI Control Panel

The INDI Library tutorials cover some of the basic aspects of INDI, namely:

Tutorial	Driver	Description
One	Simple Device	The most simple INDI driver. The tutorial covers what is required to build and run a minimal INDI driver.
Two	Simple Telescope	Implementation of a simple telescope driver using INDI event-driven framework
Three	Simple CCD	Implementation of a simple CCD driver that sends a randomly generated image to the client as FITS.
Four	Skeleton	Demonstration on how to utilize INDI’s skeleton files to build driver properties externally.
Five	Rain and Dome	Demonstration of INDI Snooping functionality that enables inter-driver communication.
Six	Client Application	Implmentation of a simple client application that can connect to the Simple CCD driver and controls its temperature.
Seven	Advanced Telescope Simulator	Sample implementation of a telescope driver that utilizes INDI’s Alignment Subsystem Infrastructure

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