NAME

       indiserver - INDI server for telescope control under KStars

SYNOPSIS

       indiserver [ -p port ] [ -r attempts ] [ -vv ] driver [ driver ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       KStars  allows  you  to  configure and control astronomical instruments
       such as telescopes and focusers via the INDI protocol.  indiserver is a
       server  that  sits  between the KStars user interface and the low-level
       hardware drivers.

       The INDI server is a network server, in that  either  local  or  remote
       clients  may  connect  to  it to control astronomical instruments.  The
       INDI server must be running on the machine that is physically connected
       to the astronomical instruments.

       Note  that  there  is  no need for you to run the INDI server directly.
       Using  the  KStars  device  manager,  you  can  set   up   astronomical
       instruments and start or stop the INDI server all from within KStars.

       You may however choose to run the INDI server manually from the command
       line.  In this case you must pass the names of one or more drivers  for
       individual  astronomical  instruments.   The  current list of available
       drivers is:

              celestrongps (Celestron GPS)
              fliccd (Finger Lakes Instruments CCD)
              lx200_16 (LX200 16")
              lx200autostar (LX200 Autostar)
              lx200classic (LX200 Classic)
              lx200generic (LX200 Generic)
              lx200gps (LX200 GPS)
              temma (Temma Takahashi)
              v4ldriver (Video4Linux Generic)
              v4lphilips (Philips Webcam)

       Much more detailed information can be found in the KStars Handbook,  as
       described below.

       KStars  is  a  graphical desktop planetarium for KDE, and forms part of
       the official KDE edutainment module.

OPTIONS

       -p port
              Specify the port to listen on (defaults to 7624).

       -r attempts
              Specify the maximum number of restart attempts for  each  driver
              (defaults to 2).

       -vv    Write more verbose output to stderr.

EXAMPLE

       To  start  an  INDI server running an LX200 GPS driver and listening to
       connections on port 8000:

              prompt$ indiserver -p 8000 lx200gps

SEE ALSO

       celestrongps(1),     fliccd(1),     lx200_16(1),      lx200autostar(1),
       lx200classic(1),  lx200generic(1),  lx200gps(1),  kstars(1),  temma(1),
       v4ldriver(1), v4lphilips(1).

       The KStars Handbook contains detailed information on how  to  use  INDI
       for  telescope  control.   You  can  read this handbook in the KDE Help
       Centre.  Alternatively you can  enter  the  URL  help:/kstars/indi.html
       directly    into    konqueror    or    you    can    run   ‘khelpcenter
       help:/kstars/indi.html’ from the command-line.

       If the KDE Help Centre is  not  installed  then  you  can  install  the
       package kdeedu-doc-html and read this documentation in HTML format from
       /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kstars/indi.html.

AUTHOR

       KStars was  written  by  Jason  Harris  <jharris@30doradus.org>,  Heiko
       Evermann  <heiko@evermann.de>, Thomas Kabelmann <tk78@gmx.de>, Pablo de
       Vicente <pvicentea@wanadoo.es>, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@ikarustech.com>,
       Carsten  Niehaus <cniehaus@gmx.de>, Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>,
       Vincent   Jagot   <vincent.jagot@free.fr>    and    Martin    Piskernig
       <martin.piskernig@stuwo.at>.
       This  manual  page  was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                               October 16, 2004                  INDISERVER(1)