INDI Library v1.9.7 is Released

What's Changed

• INDI Receiver and rtl-sdr by @iliaplatone in #1661
• Ensure defensive check of UBP previous data to fix crash - fixes #1662 by @wgauvin in #1663
• Update drivers.xml by @sonny486 in #1667
• Update dmfc.cpp by @sonny486 in #1665
• Fast blob transfer by @pludov in #1668
• Fix for indi_setprop by @pludov in #1669
• Fix socket leak by @pludov in #1672
• More AP changes: UDP, Home, Encoder Status, version major/minor. by @murveit in #1673
• Fix memory leak when converting blob to base64 by @pludov in #1674
• Disable broken shm support for macos by @pludov in #1677
• Use 8bits samples in the lookup table by @pludov in #1680
• Adding some basic PEC status and control to lx200gemini by @amendolajamie in #1675
• Shared blob hardening by @pludov in #1684
• Add Servo Precision control by @amendolajamie in #1683
• Added "enable pec at boot" switch, and a display for "current pec guide speed" by @amendolajamie in #1685
• Fix compilation with older gcc (debian 9 / stretch) by @pludov in #1687
• Fix dead client test by @pludov in #1688
• Fix connection error for Virtuoso mount by @Nekomeshi in #1690
• Iliaplatone by @iliaplatone in #1691
• Added RA/DEC guide speed by @amendolajamie in #1686
• Fix issue in AstroPhysics getApMountFeatures by @murveit in #1692
• Fixed a bug where PEC was always enabled on startup. by @amendolajamie in #1693
• Fix Fedora build by @TallFurryMan in #1694
• Make the Ubuntu workflow use the ubuntu build environment. by @TallFurryMan in #1695
• Fix typo in cron schedule for docker build containers. by @TallFurryMan in #1696
• Use generic libdc1394-dev dependency for Ubuntu. by @TallFurryMan in #1697
• Add firmware properties and checks. by @amendolajamie in #1698
• Check for signalled process in integration test by @pludov in #1699
• Fix rare crash when doing base64 encoding by @pludov in #1700
• Ensure INDIPREFIX is cleared only for drivers started from FIFO by @pludov in #1702
• UI Cleanup by @amendolajamie in #1704
• Build pushes and PRs on master branch only. by @TallFurryMan in #1706
• ap rate tables by @murveit in #1710
• fix periodic error simulation by @murveit in #1709

New Contributors

• @wgauvin made their first contribution in #1663
• @sonny486 made their first contribution in #1667
• @pludov made their first contribution in #1668
• @amendolajamie made their first contribution in #1675

Full Changelog: v1.9.6...v1.9.7

INDI Library v1.9.6 is Released

What's Changed

• add lastparked logic by @murveit in #1639
• Change driver name. Allow ParkTo & UnparkFrom to be visible before co… by @murveit in #1642
• Fixing UTC Offset format allowing :SGHH:MM# where MM can be 00, 30 and 45 by @azwing in #1644
• 1.9.6_spec: update spec to build 1.9.6git by @xsnrg in #1650
• Terminate commands missing #, introduce PEC recording and status, rem… by @murveit in #1648
• fix issue reading worm position by @murveit in #1651
• UTC uninitialized structure fix by Norikyu by @azwing in #1652
• Add mount status. Start CP5 by @murveit in #1653
• Remove user choice for CM/CMR. by @murveit in #1654
• Allow any guide rate between 0.1x and 1x by @fdesvallees in #1656
• Driver for WandererRotatorLite added by @WandererAstro in #1657
• Fix pyindi pipeline by @abecadel in #1660

New Contributors

• @WandererAstro made their first contribution in #1657

Full Changelog: v1.9.5.1...v1.9.6

INDI Library v1.9.5 is Released

What's Changed

• Fixed updating of slew rate by @fdesvallees in #1598
• Add missing find_package for Qt5Core by @paolostivanin in #1599
• spec-195: update the spec file for 1.9.5 builds by @xsnrg in #1601
• Pyindi - run actual tests by @abecadel in #1602
• Fix setObjectRA and setObjectDEC for short and long format and longer format for issue #1604 by @d33psky in #1605
• Allow Minutes Past Meridia +/- 180° by @azwing in #1606
• Adding new NexDome Beaver INDI driver by @sifank in #1607
• Fixing a build error on Older MacOS by @rlancaste in #1611
• Add and apply Meade Protocol spec definitions by @d33psky in #1609
• Add Pier Side Status for lx200zeq25 by @naheedsa in #1612
• Use <stdint.h> for uint* types (fix build on musl) by @thesamesam in #1618
• Updated version of the AstroPhysics driver--for testing by @murveit in #1620
• Fix Celestron focuser crash after calibration by @lglina in #1622
• Fix but setting AP UTC by @murveit in #1625
• Fix similar negative sign bug in AP driver by @murveit in #1626
• Initial implementation for capture format and encode format by @knro in #1630
• Add libtheora-dev to pre-requisites by @MattBlack85 in #1627
• Update driver interface when the LX200 support a focuser by @pchev in #1631
• Add CEM70(G)-EC identifier and a deprecation note by @spacekitteh in #1632
• Add Driver for Esatto with Arco (goto, abort, sync, cal) by @ChristianHen in #1634
• Remove incorrect documentation by @spacekitteh in #1637

New Contributors

• @abecadel made their first contribution in #1602
• @sifank made their first contribution in #1607
• @naheedsa made their first contribution in #1612
• @thesamesam made their first contribution in #1618
• @lglina made their first contribution in #1622
• @MattBlack85 made their first contribution in #1627
• @spacekitteh made their first contribution in #1632
• @ChristianHen made their first contribution in #1634

Full Changelog: v1.9.4...v1.9.5

INDI Library v1.9.4 is Released

Bimonthly Stable INDI Library release introduces new drivers and fixes for existing ones. Some highlights:

• OnStep: Don't show focuser tab unless found. (#1567)
• More Lynx fixes - Step Size and Devices Types (#1570)
• OnStep: Remove Focuser on disconnect (#1569)
• Save Alignment Data to mount before sync (#1566)
• CCD drivers: snooping for standard epoch positions and issues with fast exposure mode fixed (#1574)
• OnStep: Update version to 1.13, introduce timeouts based on network or not (2sec & 0.1sec), add input verification where possible.
• SkyWatcher Alt-Az iterative GOTO.
• Trying to fix #1580 (#1581)
• Proposal for Bayer frames software binning (#1586)
• Add driver for Rigelsys/Astrogene1000 nFrame rotator - Take 2 after Jasem comments (#1590)
• "Updating CURL to solve linking problem in Craft" (#1594)
• fix for bug 1359 (#1593)
• Send command at start to flush serial line for Pulsar/Rigel dome (#1596)

INDI Library v1.9.3 is Released

Bimonthly Stable INDI Library release introduces new drivers and fixes for existing ones. Some highlights:

• Fast Exposure support. Capture next frame in camera immediately to avoid any delays.
• Support for DC focusers in Pegasus DMFC driver.
• Updates and cleanup for the OpenWeatherMap driver (#1552)
• V42L driver supports detecting camera and renaming the driver (#1548)
• LX200 SiteName Fix V2 (#1550)
• Improve lynx sync and homing behavior (#1558)
• Fix FocusLynx GetConfig for focusers without HomeOnStart (#1551)
• Force using hour angle when mount is slewing (#1539)
• Correction the amplification values to spec. (#1541)
• Fixes to PlaneWave EFA driver (#1540)
• Add setting of home position for Rigel/Pulsar dome (#1534)
• Pipes should be closed with pclose(), not fclose() (#1538)

INDI Library v1.9.2 is Released

Bimonthly Stable INDI Library release introduces new drivers and fixes for existing ones. Some highlights:

• Stable Astrotrac Mount driver.
• Developer build script for UNIX users (#1529)
• ESATTO Backlash measure and correction (#1526)
• Correct color space when stacking on indi_v4l2_ccd driver with a web cam that doesn't have color space info. (#1520)
• The driver for the Planewave Delta-T was not working (#1515)
• Improved handling of myFP2ESP controllers (#1514)
• Pegasus UCH (#1513)
• TheSkyX/Paramount Pier-side + guide async cmd fixes (#1506)
• Update lx200_OnStep.cpp (#1527)
• indicom: fix FreeBSD compilation (#1524)

INDI Library v1.9.1 is Released

Bimonthly Stable INDI Library release introduces new drivers and fixes for existing ones. Some highlights:

• New AstroTrac 360 driver (Experimental).
• New Pegasus FlatMaster and UHC drivers by @chrysikos
• New Deep Sky Dad Field Rotator by @DeepSkyDad
• Core INDI Library improvements to base device and client classes by @pawel-soja
• Paramount TCP improvements by @interplanetarychris
• Spectrograph and Receiver classes by @iliaplatone
• OnStep improvements by @james-lan and @azwing
• RST-135 location and time fix by @jimmy-ck
• Dome OTA fixes by @jpaana
• Object Azimuth and Altitude added to FITS header by @jpaana
• Rainbow Focuser fixes by @murveit
• Support for CGX-L by @florian-steffen
• Fix crash in SkyWatcher API mount drievr by @Nekomeshi

INDI Library v1.9.0 is Released

Major INDI Library release v1.9.0 bring significant internal changes championed by @pawel-soja to modernize core INDI Library drivers and clients. New drivers for DeepSkyDad Flat Panel & Pegasus devices plus further improvements to PCM8 drivers.

INDI Library v1.8.9 is Released

INDI monthly update. In addition to driver improvements, major code refactoring is in progress by @pawel-soja to modernize and improve INDI aging code.

• From 1.8.8 to 1.8.9

  • 91bcd53 2021-02-24 Jasem Mutlaq Add missing exec
  • ab630cb 2021-02-16 Jasem Mutlaq Add more helpful messages for home position
  • 2698360 2021-02-16 Jasem Mutlaq Fix paramount home and sidereal rate
  • 1342022 2021-02-14 rishi-garrod Added labels for USB and Dew (#1355)
  • 71b4dbf 2021-02-13 Jasem Mutlaq Add entry for star adventurer
  • 3acd0f1 2021-02-13 Jasem Mutlaq Add motor rate and current to the config save
  • 162bd94 2021-02-13 Jasem Mutlaq Add CEM26 and GEM28. Migrate CEM40 and GEM45 drivers to iOptronv3 commands and remove parking restrictions. Fixes #1354
  • 186e45f 2021-02-13 interplanetarychris Final fixes for Celestrongps guider scale (#1353)
  • ace5d9e 2021-02-09 Jarno Paananen DDW state change fix part 2 (#1351)
  • 0b670b1 2021-02-07 Jasem Mutlaq Add preliminary support to inquire pier side for Paramount. Not tested yet
  • ef4e73f 2021-02-06 Jarno Paananen DDW shutter state fix (#1349)
  • 351095a 2021-02-06 Paweł Soja Separate useful macros to indimacros.h (#1348)
  • 4974cf2 2021-02-06 Jasem Mutlaq Add support to Pegasus Micro as well
  • 205f72f 2021-02-05 Jarno Paananen Fixes to handling of state changes in DDW driver (#1346)
  • aae54d9 2021-02-05 Paweł Soja Fix - PyIndi fails over missing symbol (#1347)
  • 0fe8fe1 2021-02-04 Jarno Paananen Updates to DDW driver (#1344)
  • 81e0b01 2021-02-02 Jarno Paananen Avoid DDW communication watchdog (#1342)
  • bb72af4 2021-02-01 Jarno Paananen Driver for Digital Dome Works (DDW) from Technical Innovations (#1341)
  • 47ed55f 2021-02-01 Jasem Mutlaq Increment version for SkyWAtcher Alt-Az
  • 3c222a5 2021-02-01 Jasem Mutlaq Add support for AZEQ6 as proposed by Dirk on INDI forums
  • fc26c01 2021-02-01 rishi-garrod Fixed Auto Dew for V2 and added Aggessiveness for V2. Fixed a few lit… (#1340)
  • 077d2a4 2021-01-30 Rick Bassham fix: add null pointer check to serial connect (#1335)
  • 45ae8e4 2021-01-23 Jasem Mutlaq Add saveConfigItems to WeatherInterface and utilize that in classes that inherit it
  • d523ba6 2021-01-23 Jasem Mutlaq Simplify code and use better variable names
  • 09420eb 2021-01-21 d33psky Integra85 driver sanity checks and improved user messages. (#1334)
  • fa59b72 2021-01-21 interplanetarychris Fix celestrongps guide rate scaling (#1331)
  • d6e9d74 2021-01-19 Paweł Soja DefaultDevice - D-Pointer implementation (#1327)
  • f01ad1f 2021-01-19 Lesage Franck Tracking can now be switched on/off (#1326)
  • 3e75b36 2021-01-19 Paweł Soja Refactoring - Widget decorators (#1324)
  • 022406e 2021-01-19 Ilia Platone indicom.c update for delay calculation (#1328)
  • 09a1e46 2021-01-18 pmneo Frame Based V4L Stacking and lazy stop capture for better loop perf (#1325)
  • 5b13bbf 2021-01-15 Rick Bassham Add snoop device to joystick controller (#1323)
  • ec3836b 2021-01-15 avarakin Fix for issue with manipulating output ports (#1322)
  • 7712811 2021-01-13 Jasem Mutlaq Temporary measure to prevent deadlock with some clients. Still requires long term solution
  • 4baca66 2021-01-13 Paweł Soja Refactoring - less dependencies between files / less mallocs (#1318)
  • ab26ac5 2021-01-12 Paweł Soja Refactoring/INDI::BaseDevice - D-Pointer implemented (#1320)
  • de9b046 2021-01-12 lantictac Sesto Senso 2: Workaround apply motor preset issue (#1319)
  • 428e0fe 2021-01-12 Jasem Mutlaq Starting libindi v1.8.9 development cycle
  • 74615e6 2021-01-11 Jasem Mutlaq Protect properties and messages when used in multiple threads. While this used to work fine, some conditions may led to corrupted data
  • c714f9c 2021-01-11 pawel-soja Indidriver/refactoring (#1313)
  • 978290d 2021-01-11 lantictac Sesto Senso 2: Motor settings (#1315)

INDI Library v1.8.8 is Released

Maintenance release for January 2021 with a few new drivers. Internally, a lot of improvements and modernization to the code base that should help with stability.

From 1.8.7 to 1.8.8

  + New HOBYM Crux telescope driver (#1295)
  + New Rainbow focuser driver (#1304)
  + New ActiveFocuser driver release (#1301)
  + 10Micron: UnattendedFlip handling, implements #1276 (#1298)
  + Bugfix/sat track lx200 julian day (#1305)
  + Improved serial port auto-search.
  + Refactor/satellite tracking properties -> Moving properties to a higher abstraction layer (#1300)
  + SkyWatcher Alt-Az driver improvements.
  + Indibase/refactoring - update INDI::Property (#1302)
  + Update of SmartFocus driver (#1275)
  + Add new helper methods to the AlignmentSubsystemForDrivers (Alt/Az) (#1308)
  + Streammanager/chrono - Fix the 24h time limit. (#1278)
  + Fix remote driver not sending properties to upstream server
  + Delay calculation in indicommon and indicorrelator (#1277)
  + Indidriver/refactoring - fix memory leak, increase performance (#1281)
  + Streammanager/refactoring (#1280)
  + Move absolute position bugfix (#1285)
  + Use of the common mkpath function (#1288)
  + Sesto Senso 2: Support for displaying 12V input voltage. (#1289)
  + Add Microsoft LifeCam Cinema to pixelSizeInfo (#1314)
  + Sesto Senso 2: Log & display firmware version (#1292)
  + fix: inline methods that use unlinked functions (#1312)