INDIGO Astronomy

For developers

INDIGO is a stable, robust and efficient open source framework. The complete source code, the development guides and the driver documentation are in our public repository.

Get the source Documentation

Obtaining and building the code

Make sure that you have all prerequisites installed. On Ubuntu / Debian / Raspian use:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf autotools-dev libtool cmake libudev-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgphoto2-dev libz-dev git curl patchelf bsdmainutils

It is advised to remove libraw1394-dev as the build may fail if it is installed

$ sudo apt-get remove libraw1394-dev

On macOS install XCode and download and build autoconf, automake and libtool (use tools/cltools.sh script).

If you're ready, get the code and built it

$ git clone https://github.com/indigo-astronomy/indigo.git

$ cd indigo

$ make all

$ build/bin/indigo_server indigo_ccd_asi [other drivers]

and connect from any INDIGO client or WEB browser to port 7624...

INDIGO Development Documents

The complete documentation is available in the INDIGO documentation index.

Getting started

Introduction to INDIGO development - the bus, devices, clients, agents and drivers explained

INDIGO makefiles - how the build system is organized

Driver development

Basics of INDIGO Driver Development - a brief driver development guide with examples

INDIGO Driver Generator - Migration Guide - migrating a driver to the code generator

INDIGO Device Access Control and Exclusive Lock System - how device locking works

INDIGO Multi-instance Support - for devices without plug & play support

Saving images from the camera driver - how a camera driver stores the captured images

Serial Device Simulators - testing a driver without the real hardware

INDI conversion - mapping of the INDI properties and items to INDIGO

Client development

Basics of INDIGO Client Development - a brief client development guide with examples

Protocols, properties and data formats

INDIGO Protocols - description of the INDIGO protocols

INDIGO Properties - list of INDIGO properties, their items and mapping to legacy INDI protocol

INDIGO Raw Image Format - the raw image format used by INDIGO

Documents for both users and developers

Guide to indigo_server and INDIGO Drivers - how to start the server, load and configure drivers

INDIGO Agents - what the agents are and how to use them

INDIGO Scripting Guide - writing scripts for the scripting agent

Basics of INDIGO Scripting - a short introduction to INDIGO scripting

Script based Sequencer - ready to use sequencer built on the scripting agent

INDIGO Property Manipulation in Examples - controlling INDIGO from the command line with indigo_prop_tool

This is INDIGO license if you want to use the code

INDIGO Astronomy open-source license (version 2.0, December 2020)

Copyright (c) 2020 CloudMakers, s. r. o.

Copyright (c) 2020 Rumen G.Bogdanovski

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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  3. Redistribution in source or binary form for fee is permitted only as part of another different product or as product derived from this software.

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