Porting INDI Drivers to Mac and Fixing Fishcamp Starfish on Mac and Linux

[Jasem Mutlaq]

That's awesome progress, Robert!

KStars on MacOS shall be very soon with the same level of support on Linux!

Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq


On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> Over the last couple of weeks, I have been on a mission to port some of
> the INDI drivers that were disabled on Mac OS X due to various issues so
> that they would work on Mac as well as Linux.  About 6 months ago, I had
> success doing this for the Meade DSI with Jasem’s help, and we had worked
> on Apogee, QHY, and GPhoto before, so I thought it would be good to attempt
> to fix some of the others that were disabled.  First, I communicated with
> SBIG and with their blessing added firmware uploading capability to the
> driver and made it easier to compile and work with on OS X in INDI.  Then I
> worked on editing MGEN, FIshcamp, and INDIDuino to get them to compile and
> hopefully work on OS X.  There was just one problem with that.  I didn’t
> have any of these 3 cameras/devices to test.  So I asked for testers on
> indilib.org and I sought help on Cloudy Nights.  User “Pepe.Lombris”
> (Stephan) tested the MGEN driver and with the help of “TallFurryMan”
> (Eric)’s expertise with the current capabilities of the driver, we
> confirmed that it does in fact work as well as it does on Linux.  It
> doesn’t work perfectly, but there are not OS X issues.  Then I ordered an
> Arduino and tested the INDIDuino driver.  It required a couple of changes
> to get it all working well and there were a couple of issues, but those
> issues also exist on Linux.  I fixed a few of them.  I think it could use
> some changes to make it more user friendly and I think I will revisit it,
> but overall it works very well on OS X now.  Then I found a user on Cloudy
> Nights named David Illig who was willing to loan me his Fishcamp Starfish
> so I could test that driver.  I didn’t work on it right away, though
> because there were a few more drivers that I found I could enable.
>
> I more recently found that I could enable several other drivers.  The SSAG
> driver, Radio Sim Driver, Point Grey Firefly FFMV driver, and RTLSDR were
> able to be enabled and compiled without a whole lot of effort, though the
> libdc1394 Point Grey dependency gave us issues with including on GIT with
> the linux build checkers.   I was able to test two of those drivers, the
> RTLSDR driver and the Radio Sim Driver, and they seem to work well as far
> as I know.  I should also be able to test the SSAG driver in the near
> future.  I will be putting up a new request for testers for the others
> soon.  If you know why any of them were disabled for OS X, please let me
> know.  They are not yet in the dmg of KStars that is posted online, but I
> will post a “beta” dmg for the testers to try just like I did before.
> Finally, Peter gave me permission to include the ATIK drivers he makes in
> KStars as well.
>
> Then I worked on the Fishcamp Starfish.   I will summarize that in a
> different email because it required some work.
>
> So to summarize, I added support in Kstars on Mac by porting, enabling,
> including, or fixing the Linux drivers for SBIG, MGEN, ATIK, Fishcamp,
> INDIDuino, SSAG, Radio Sim, RTLSDR, and Point Grey Firefly.
>
> The following are confirmed to be working well on OS X :  SBIG, MGEN,
> Fishcamp, INDIDuino, Radio Sim, and RTLSDR.
>
> The following ones need to be tested still on OS X:  SSAG and Point Grey
> Firefly (Possibly ATIK too in order to make sure I included Peter’s driver
> correctly)
>
> The following ones now should work well/better on Linux but will need
> testing on Linux: Fishcamp, INDIDuino
>
> This leaves a total of only TWO drivers in Third Party that work on Linux
> but not on OS X:  Moravian and iNova.  They cannot be ported so easily
> because they rely on a binary library complied for each OS and processor.
> I sent emails to them the other day.  We will see.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
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