Hello all,

It's the 20th anniversary since I wrote the first draft of the INDI protocol (here) so it was a good time to stop by and say hello. This is a wonderful site and I want to thank everyone for using INDI.

I want to share a means I developed to write INDI clients as web pages using pure javascript. This is very convenient and avoids all the hassles of deploying compiled applications for different platform. The core idea is to connect a web server to an indiserver via a websocket then send setINDI commands and receive getINDI responses using javascript. I have attached a very simple example in htdocs.tgz. At the top of indi.js is the configuration file change needed for the lighttpd web server, but I think all web servers support websockets similarly.

I have also made extensive performance improvements to indiserver, please find attached the new version in INDI.tgz. It also includes the indisimbad driver used by the web example above and a few other handy drivers.

Both of these codes have seen exhaustive field use so they should be very reliable.

Well that's all for now, maybe I will check in again in another 20 years

All the best,

Elwood

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