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SWIG Binding

The swig-indi directory contains several bindings for the libindiclient library:
1. Python binding in the swig-indi/swing-indi-python directory. To build and install:

 svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyindi-client/code/trunk/swig-indi/swig-indi-python/
 mkdir libindipython
 cd libindipython
 cmake ../swig-indi-python
 make
 sudo make install

You may have to install swig2.0/3.0 together with python/python-dev, and libIndi/libindi-dev itself. There is a small test/example script in the source directory.
2. Node.js binding: in the swig-indi/swing-indi-nodejs directory. To build and install a local nodejs extension:

svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyindi-client/code/trunk/swig-indi/swig-indi-nodejs/
mkdir indinodejs
cd indinodejs
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=. ../swig-indi-nodejs
make
make install
#the extension lies in lib/node_modules/indiclientnodejs. You may run the test script with
NODE_PATH=./lib/node_modules/ node ../swing-indi-nodejs/test-indiclientnodejs.js

You may have to install swig2.0/3.0 together with node/npm and Indi itself. There is a small test/example script in the source directory.
3. Tcl Binding: in the swig-indi/swing-indi-tcl directory. VectorProperty should be wrapped as you can only see the first property of the vector as for now. Same procedure as for Python to build it.
4. PHP Binding: in the swig-indi/swing-indi-php directory. VectorProperty should be wrapped as you can only see the first property of the vector as for now. Same procedure as for Python to build it. Thread not supported so it is actually quite unuseful, but that's fun,

Indi Python WebSocket server

Built on top of the swig binding for Python, a WebSocket server may be implemented to serve standard Indi protocol messages as JSON messages to WebBrowser clients. This uses the ws4py implementation together with a cherrypy server. To build and run:

#install cherrypy version 3
sudo apt-get install python-cherrypy3
#install ws4py
sudo mkdir /opt/ws4py;chown localuser.localuser /opt/ws4py
cd ws4py
git clone https://github.com/Lawouach/WebSocket-for-Python.git
sudo cd /opt/ws4py/WebSocket-for-Python; python setup.py install
#install and run the websocket server
svn co https://sourceforge.net/p/pyindi-client/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/swig-indi/pyindi-ws
cd pyindi-ws
python indi_simple_html_cherrypy_server.py
#run an indiserver somewhere
indiserver indi_eqmod_telescope indi_v4l2_ccd

You can then browse the websocket server and connect therein to your indi servers. Below is a snapshot of the simple html server (no style/no theme for the moment). You can run the websocket server to serve your local network and use an android device to browse your indi servers. Simply run

python indi_simple_html_cherrypy_server.py --host 192.168.0.15 #use your local IP here

Treeview Indi Client

User interfaces for the driver manager come from kstars. To build the client UIs

pykdeuic4 drivermanager.ui -o drivermanagergui.py
pykdeuic4 indihostconf.ui -o indihostconfgui.py
pyuic4 pyqtindi.ui -o pyqtindigui.py

Icons are located in the directory pyqt-indi/pyqt-indi/resources. To build them

pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o icons_rc.py
cp icons_rc.py ..

Freecad 3D Equatorial Mount Simulator

I added a 3D mount simulator that I plan to connect with pyindi-client to INDI device for monitoring purpose. The simulator was built as an exercise to use freecad/python.

SIP Generated Python Binding (DEPRECATED)

This is now deprecated as I use swig to build the wrappers
* How to build
This binding uses metasip to generate the sip files. The metasip project file is pyindi.msp. After editing the project file, just run:

pyqt-indi$ msip pyindi.msp         // Edit the project file
pyqt-indi$ msip -g sip pyindi.msp  // Generate the sip files in sip/ directory
pyqt-indi$ python3 pyindi-configure.py // Generate the Makefile for compiling sip files
pyqt-indi$ cd build
pyqt-indi$ make

The build directory will contain the PyIndi.so file to import in Python.
Be aware to use the python3 sip version if you build for python3. Ubuntu has two sip packages, one for python3 and one for python2.