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19 indiserver \- INDI server for telescope control under KStars
22 [ \fB\-p\fP \fIport\fP ]
23 [ \fB\-r\fP \fIattempts\fP ]
25 \fIdriver\fP [ \fIdriver\fP ... ]
27 KStars allows you to configure
28 and control astronomical instruments such as telescopes and focusers via
29 the INDI protocol. \fBindiserver\fP is a server that sits between the
30 KStars user interface and the low-level hardware drivers.
32 The INDI server is a network server, in that either local or remote clients
33 may connect to it to control astronomical instruments. The INDI server must
34 be running on the machine that is physically connected to the
35 astronomical instruments.
37 Note that there is no need for you to run the INDI server directly. Using
38 the KStars device manager, you can set up astronomical instruments and start
39 or stop the INDI server all from within KStars.
41 You may however choose to run the INDI server manually from the command
42 line. In this case you must pass the names of one or more drivers for
43 individual astronomical instruments. The current list of available
47 celestrongps (Celestron GPS)
49 fliccd (Finger Lakes Instruments CCD)
53 lx200autostar (LX200 Autostar)
55 lx200classic (LX200 Classic)
57 lx200generic (LX200 Generic)
61 temma (Temma Takahashi)
63 v4ldriver (Video4Linux Generic)
65 v4lphilips (Philips Webcam)
68 Much more detailed information can be found in the KStars Handbook, as
71 KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE, and forms part of
72 the official KDE edutainment module.
76 Specify the port to listen on (defaults to 7624).
78 \fB\-r\fP \fIattempts\fP
79 Specify the maximum number of restart attempts for each driver (defaults to 2).
82 Write more verbose output to stderr.
84 To start an INDI server running an LX200 GPS driver and listening to
85 connections on port 8000:
88 \fIprompt$\fP indiserver -p 8000 lx200gps
94 .BR lx200autostar (1),
103 The KStars Handbook contains detailed information on how to use INDI for
104 telescope control. You can read this handbook in the KDE Help Centre.
105 Alternatively you can enter the URL
106 \fIhelp:/kstars/indi.html\fP
107 directly into konqueror or you can run
108 `\fIkhelpcenter help:/kstars/indi.html\fP'
109 from the command-line.
111 If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package
112 \fIkdeedu-doc-html\fP and read this documentation in HTML format from
113 \fI/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kstars/indi.html\fP.
115 KStars was written by Jason Harris <jharris@30doradus.org>,
116 Heiko Evermann <heiko@evermann.de>, Thomas Kabelmann <tk78@gmx.de>,
117 Pablo de Vicente <pvicentea@wanadoo.es>, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@ikarustech.com>,
118 Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus@gmx.de>, Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>,
119 Vincent Jagot <vincent.jagot@free.fr> and
120 Martin Piskernig <martin.piskernig@stuwo.at>.
122 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
123 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).