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The INDI team is happy to announce the release of Ekos VM 1.5 on April. 24th, 2016.
 
Ekos VM is a virtual machine based upon Kubuntu 16.04 LTS. It Includes KStars, Ekos, and INDI Library including all 3rd party drivers. The VM includes the latest bleeding edge releases of Ekos & INDI, and can easily be updated whenever new builds of the software are available. This virtual machine is intended for new INDI users who want take a look to this software without the work of installing it in his own system or for users of other operating systems not supported by INDI. The virtual machine was created with VirtualBox but it is stored in the Open Virtualitzation Alliance (OVA) format so it can be used with different virtualization software.
 
The file size is large (~ 1.7 GB). Please use a dedicated download manager for your browser such as DownThemAll for Firefox and ensure the downloaded file MD5sum matches the MD5 on the download page.

To get MD5sum, open a terminal and type:

md5sum ekos.ova

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INDI Development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.0.0 on Feb 15th, 2015. Following are the highlights of this release:

  • 3rdparty: Support for QHY CCDs and CFWs (BETA).
  • 3rdparty: Support for Meade DSI (BETA).
  • 3rdparty: Support for FFMV cameras.
  • Support for STAR2000.
  • Support for Baader dome.
  • Support for Baader SteelDrive focuser.
  • Support for dome slaving (BETA).
  • Subframing and debayer support in GPhoto driver.
  • Improved CFW handling and external tracking CCD for SBIG CCDs.
  • Add debayer support for color cameras with user-configurable options.
    • Debayer is performed at the client level.
  • Fixed deinterlacing and subframing support in Starlight Xpress drivers.
  • Fixed issues with joystick support in some drivers.
    • Added joystick support to focuser and filter wheels.
  • Improvements in generation of FITS header.
  • Improvement in performance of some drivers under SBCs like Raspberry PI.
  • Added fan and readout speed controls to QSI CCD.
  • Fixed locale issue in INDI driver.
  • Fixed regression in LX200Basic driver.
  • Fixed issue with INDI Server resetting environment variable for skeleton and config files.
  • Various fixes for loading/saving of user configuration.

Source and Ubuntu packages are available for download.

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INDI Development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.1.0 on Sep. 6th, 2015. Following are the highlights of this release:

  • INDI::Weather for support of weather devices.
  • INDI::GPS for support of GPS devices.
  • WunderGround weather driver.
  • Meade DSI I & II support.
  • FocusLynx focuser support.
  • PerfectStar focuser support.
  • World Coordinate System (WCS) support in generated FITS.
  • Updated Losmany driver.
  • New Celestron driver.
  • New IEQPro driver.
  • Support for custom parking in dome drivers.
  • Support Open Loop dome controllers.
  • Various QHY CCD & Filter Wheel fixes and QHY OSX support.
  • SBIG External Guide CCD fixes.
  • Custom parking support for Celestron/Astrophysics/AstroElectronics/IEQPro
  • Updated ASI ZWO drivers.
  • Updated Apogee library. Improved NET support in INDI Apogee driver.
  • Standarizing mount slew and track rates.
  • Video4Linux 2 fixes and improvements: (16bpp pixel formats(Y16 and BYR2), pwc flashled, colorSpace/linearization, stacking), Simutaneous record/stream/exp. Stream rate divisor. Rec. file patterns.
  • EQMod fixes: Keep tracking after joystick motion is stopped. Park initialization always set encoders.
  • Improved support for drivers on ARM architecture.
  • Improved logging capability.
  • Deprecated: LX200Legacy and indimain library.

Source and Ubuntu packages are available for download.

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INDI Development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.2.0 on Feb. 2nd, 2016. Following are the highlights of this release:

From 1.1.0 to 1.2.0:

  • Support for Davis Vantage Pro/Pro2/Vue Weather Station.
  • Support for XAGYL Filter Wheel.
  • Support for Optec Flip Flat.
  • Support for Pulsar2 mount.
  • Support for JMI Smart Focus.
  • Support for GPS driver based on gpsd.
  • 3rdParty: QHY Updates and Fixes. Color camera support.
  • 3rdParty: GPhoto focus and live streaming fixes.
  • 3rdParty: Starlight Xpress support for multiple identical devices and driver improvements.
  • 3rdParty: ASI updated to latest SDK. Temperature readout for all cameras. ROI & Cooler fixes.
  • FocusLynx: Support 2 focusers.
  • Celestron: Support pulse guiding. Support hibernation and wakup on supported firmware.
  • SynScan: Complete rewrite to support latest features in the firmware.
  • GPhoto: Mirror lock support before capture.
  • RoboFocus: Update to comply to INDI::Focus standards.
  • SBIG: Support for connecting to Ethernet based CCDs.
  • ZEQ25: Updates and fixes.
  • MaxDomeII: Driver updated and tested under latest INDI::Dome standards.
  • QSI: Added anti-blooming option.
  • INDI WatchDog driver: Can be configured to perform observatory shutdown.
  • EQMod: Initial support for INDI Alignment Subsystem. Do not stop motor in low speed (guiding issue).
  • Temma: Complete rewrite based on INDI::Telescope and using INDI Alignment Subsystem.
  • AutoDome park feature in Dome devices.
  • Fix Crash on ODroid.
  • Added Meta-Weather driver to aggregate weather data from multiple sources.
  • Support for remotely controller dust caps and light box devices.
  • Handle 16bit images in Rapid Guide mode.
  • BaseClient non-blocking connect support.
  • Unified Streaming/Recording support for multiple drivers (ASI/QHY/V4L2).

Source and Ubuntu packages are available for download.

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INDI Development team is happy to announce the release of INDI Library v1.3.0 on Oct. 30th, 2016. Following are the highlights of this release:

From 1.2.0 to 1.3.0

  • Support for Shelyak eShel spectrograph.
  • Support for NStep focuser.
  • Support for ASI Filter Wheel.
  • Support for OneStep Telescope Controller.
  • Support for Moravian CCD driver.
  • Support for GigE machine vision cameras.
  • Experimental SSAG CCD driver.
  • Adding support for fast BLOB with ENCLEN. With Fast blob mode enabled, blob performance is now significantly faster.
  • FITS Min/Max calculations are disabled by default to save processing time unless explicitly enabled by the user at compile time.
  • Qt5 based client class is added to enable multiplatform client development.
  • New significantly faster base64 encoding/decoding routines.
  • Selectable alignment modes for INDI EQMod that includes built-in EQMod alignment and INDI Alignment Subsystem.
  • CCD sequence queue number is no longer limited to 999.
  • More Starlight Xpress CCDs cameras supported.
  • Updated Starlight Xpress Adaptive Optics driver.
  • Updated Temma Takahashi mount driver.
  • Updated Apogee CCD driver.
  • Updated QHY CCD driver with numerous fixes.
  • Updated FLI CCD driver.
  • Updated Pulasr2 driver.
  • Updated ASI CCD with support for arm64 architecture, 1600 model and a lot more.
  • Significant improvements to GPhoto driver including better support for Nikon DSLRs.
  • Improved GPSd driver.
  • New CCD_FILE_PATH property to indicate remote file path.
  • New TELESCOPE_PIER_SIDE property.
  • Dome & Telescope Scripting Gateway added.
  • Added support for servos in Indiduino
  • Fix BuiltinMathPlugin crash for Southern Hemisphere
  • Add scope park aware feature to the rolloff roof simulator
  • INDI Logs are now stored under ~/.indi/logs and arranged by date and time per driver.

Source and Ubuntu packages are available for download.

  1. RedLogix employs INDI for instrument control
  2. IPARCOS Android client for INDI
  3. INDI Library v0.9.9
  4. jINDI and wINDI