Month: October 2006

The messages are XML, but the data is in a stream consisting of a sequence of messages. Each message can be treated independently and is self-contained. It is up to the client to organize the messages based on hints contained in the messages themselves (as provided by the device driver). This means that the first …

Basic I/O with the INDI ServerRead More

Our second method is connect. Yes, that name is overused, but it describes exactly what we are doing even if we also have to use the built-in “connect” method that is part of the TCP/IP functions in Perl (and the underlying C library). Ours will be part of the Astro::INDI object we are creating, so …

Connecting to the ServerRead More

This is the easy part. If you have never written a Perl module, you can find some tutorials elsewhere [need reference]. Our Perl module will be called Astro::INDI and we can produce a skeleton quite simply. I’m going to be bit picky here and insert POD (plain-old documentation) as I do this. It’s a habit …

Boiler PlateRead More

This is a work in progress, and is really composed of my working notes more than anything else. The INDI project is still young enough that the focus has been on writing device drivers and implementing potentially useful features. The side effect is that you are “stuck” with using whatever clients are available. The FAQ …

INDI: Writing an INDI clientRead More