knro

Yes.  Sadly INDI has a few other niggles that irritate me and I can't find a way to do within its existing architecture some things I want.  If I can find a way of fixing them then I shall do so.  If I can't then, err, I'll think about that when I get that far.  Which is probably going to be a while yet.  I have other fish to fry first.

James

I'm also the maintaner of INDI, what issues are you facing with INDI exactly?

I'd not want to discourage others from trying it, but for me this isn't just about creating another capture program.  My longer-term goal is to create a suite of imaging tools I can do all sorts of other things with, such as running them on different architectures and even on headless servers or ones without any kind of graphics display at all (though they are not my only goals).  Writing a capture program is just one step along the way.  Fortunately it's a step that has very useful output

James

The backend is INDI which already runs on headless servers and even Rasperry PI. Ekos is just a front-end to INDI.

Has anyone tried Ekos in KStars? Ekos already relies on INDI, so you have all the V4L2 cams, SBIG, QHY, QSI, FLI, Starlight Xpress, ATIK...etc CCDs already well supported. When I first got my astrophotography gear a couple of years ago, I was also furstrated by the lack of decent capturing software for a typical amatur astrophotograhy session. I wanted to be able to perform a decent polar alignment, focus my CCD, guide it, and capture images with different filter wheels while I am away, and this is why I developed Ekos, I wanted to do everything from one place.

Here is a Youtube video I made on Ekos which hopefully should shed light on some of its primary features: