indipyclient
You may have Python programs implementing some form of data collection or control and wish to remotely operate such an instrument.
An associated package 'indipydriver' can be used to take your data, organise it into a data structure defined by the INDI protocol, and serve it on a port.
This indipyclient package provides a terminal client, which connects to the port, allowing you to view and control your instrument from a terminal session.
It can be installed from Pypi with:
pip install indipyclient
indipydriver and indipyclient communicate with the INDI protocol.
INDI - Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_Neutral_Distributed_Interface
The indipyclient terminal client can be started from the command line, and can also be imported if required, in which case it provides a set of classes which can be used to create scripts to control the remote instrument.
The client can be run with
indipyclient [options]
or with
python3 -m indipyclient [options]
The package help is:
usage: indipyclient [options]
Terminal client to communicate to an INDI service.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PORT, --port PORT Port of the INDI server (default 7624).
--host HOST Hostname/IP of the INDI server (default localhost).
-b BLOBS, --blobs BLOBS Optional folder where BLOB's will be saved.
--loglevel LOGLEVEL Enables logging, value 1, 2, 3 or 4.
--logfile LOGFILE File where logs will be saved
--version show program's version number and exit
The BLOB's folder can also be set from within the session.
Setting loglevel and logfile should only be used for brief
diagnostic purposes, the logfile could grow very big.
loglevel:1 Information and error messages only, no exception trace.
The following levels enable exception traces in the logs
loglevel:2 As 1 plus xml vector tags without members or contents,
loglevel:3 As 1 plus xml vectors and members - but not BLOB contents,
loglevel:4 As 1 plus xml vectors and all contents
A typical session would look like:
The INDI protocol defines the format of the data sent, such as light, number, text, switch or BLOB (Binary Large Object). The client is general purpose, taking the format of switches, numbers etc., from the protocol.
INDI is often used with astronomical instruments, but is a general purpose protocol which can be used for any instrument control.
Further documentation is available at:
https://indipyclient.readthedocs.io
The package can be installed from:
https://pypi.org/project/indipyclient
and indipydriver is available at:
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