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indicommon.h
1/*
2 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012-2022 Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@ikarustech.com>
3
4 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
5*/
6
7#pragma once
8
9#include <QString>
10#include <QMap>
11#include <chrono>
12/*!
13\page INDI "INDI Overview"
14\tableofcontents
15
16\section Intro Introduction
17
18INDI is a simple XML-like communications protocol described for interactive and automated remote control of diverse instrumentation. INDI is small, easy to parse, and stateless.
19The main key concept in INDI is that devices have the ability to describe themselves. This is accomplished by using XML to describe a generic hierarchy that can represent both canonical and
20 non-canonical devices. All devices may contain one or more properties. A property in the INDI paradigm describes a specific function of the driver.
21Any property may contain one or more elements. There are four types of INDI properties:
22
23<ul>
24<li><b>Text property</b>: Property to transfer simple text information in ISO-8859-1. The text is not encoded or encrypted on transfer. If the text includes elements that can break XML syntax, a BLOB property should be used to make the transfer.</li>
25<li><b>Number property</b>: Property to transfer numeric information with configurable minimum, maximum, and step values. The supported number formats are decimal and sexigesmal. The property includes a GUI hint element in printf style format to enable clients to properly display numeric properties.</li>
26<li><b>Switch property</b>: Property to hold a group of options or selections (Represented in GUI by buttons and check boxes).</li>
27<li><b>Light property</b>: Property to hold a group of status indicators (Represented in GUI by colored LEDs).</li>
28<li><b>BLOB property</b>: BLOB is a Binary Large OBject used to transfer binary data to and from drivers.</li>
29</ul>
30
31For example, all INDI devices share the CONNECTION standard switch property. The CONNECTION property has two elements: CONNECT and DISCONNECT switches.
32GUI clients parse the generic XML description of properties and builds a GUI representation suitable for direct human interaction.
33
34KStars is a fully featured INDI client. INDI Data (i.e. devices and properties) and GUI (how they appear on the screen) are separated. INDI adopts is a server/client architecture where one or more servers
35communicate with one or more drivers, each driver can communicate with one or more actual hardware devices. Clients connect to the server, obtain a list of devices, and generate GUI to represent the
36devices for user interaction and control. The creation of GUI happens in run time via introspection.
37
38\section Structure Hierarchy
39
40The following is a description of some of the various classes that support INDI:
41
42<ul>
43<li>DriverManager: Manages local drivers as installed by INDI library. Enables users to start/stop local INDI servers (ServerManager) running one or more drivers (DriverInfo). Also enables connecting to local or remote
44INDI servers. For both local and remote connection, it creates a ClientManager to handle incoming data from each INDI server started, and creates a GUIManager to render the devices in INDI Control Panel.
45The user may also choose to only start an INDI server without a client manager and GUI.</li>
46<li>ClientManager: Manages sending and receiving data from and to an INDI server. The ClientManager sends notifications (signals) when a new device or property is defined, updated, or deleted.</li>
47<li>GUIManager: Handles creation of GUI interface for devices (INDI_D) and their properties and updates the interface in accord with any data emitted by the associated ClientManager. The GUI manager supports
48multiple ClientManagers and consolidate all devices from all the ClientManagers into a single INDI Control Panel where each device is created as a tab.</li>
49<li>INDIListener: Once a ClientManager is created in DriverManager after successfully connecting to an INDI server, it is added to INDIListener which creates an ISD::Generic device instance for each and passes down any property events to the device instance.</li>
50<li>ServerManager</li> Manages establishment and shutdown of local INDI servers.</li>
51<li>DriverInfo</li>: Simple class that holds information on INDI drivers such as name, version, device type..etc.</li>
52<li>ISD::GDInterface: Abstract class where the ISD::GenericDevice and ISD::ConcreteDevice are derived.</li>
53<li>ISD::GenericDevice: Base class for all INDI devices. It implements processes shared across all INDI devices such as handling connection/disconnection, setting of configuration..etc.. When a
54After properties are defined, it checks the driver interface and defined a device subtype using ISD::ConcreteDevice for each subtype.</li>
55<li>ISD::ConcreteDevice: Base class for concrete device implementations such as ISD::Mount and ISD::Camera. The parent class ISD::GenericDevice passes property events down to the ConcreteDevice class so it may
56process the properties relevant to this device type. For example, ISD::Mount would process EOD_EQUATORIAL_EOD coord property while ISD::Camera would process CCD_EXPOSURE property..etc.</li>
57</ul>
58
59\section Example Example
60
61Suppose the user wishes to control an EQMod mount with \e indi_eqmod_telescope driver. From the DriverManager GUI, the user selects the driver and \e starts INDI services. The DriverManager
62will create a ServerManager instance to run an INDI server with the EQMod driver executable. After establishing the server, the DriverManager will create an instance of ClientManager and set
63its INDI server address as the host and port of the server created in ServerManager. For local servers, the host name is \e localhost and the default INDI port is 7624. If connection to the INDI server
64is successful, DriverManager then adds the ClientManager to both INDIListener (to handle data), and GUIManager (to handle GUI). Since the ClientManager emits signals whenever a new, updated, or deleted
65device/property is received from INDI server, it affects both the data handling part as well as GUI rendering.
66
67INDIListener holds a list of all INDI devices in KStars regardless of their origin. Once INDIListener receives a new device from the ClientManager, it creates a new ISD::GenericDevice. At the GUIManager side, it creates INDI Control Panel and adds a new tab with the device name.
68It also creates a separate tab for each property group received. The user is presented with a basic GUI to set the connection port of EQMod and to connect/disconnect to/from the telescope. If the
69user clicks connect, the status of the connection property is updated, and INDI_P sends the new switch status (CONNECT=ON) to INDI server via the ClientManager. If the connection is successful
70at the driver side, it will start defining new properties to cover the complete functionality of the EQMod driver, one of the standard properties is EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD which will be detected
71in INDIListener. Upon detection of this key signature property, INDIListener creates a new ISD::Mount device while passing to it the ISD::GenericDevice instance created earlier.
72
73Now suppose an updated Number property arrives from INDI server, the ClientManager emits a signal indicating a number property has a new updated value and INDIListener delegates the INDI Number
74property to the device, which is now of type ISD::Mount. The ISD::Mount overridden the processNumber(INumberVectorProperty *nvp) function in ISD::DeviceDecorator because it wants to handle some telescope
75specific numbers such as EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD in order to move the telescope marker on the sky map as it changes. If the received property was indeed EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD or any property handled
76by the ISD::Mount ProcessNumber() function, then there is no further action needed. But what if the property is not processed in ISD::Mount ProcessNumber() function? In this case, the
77ProcessNumber() function simply calls DeviceDecorator::ProcessNumber() and it will delgate the call to ISD::GenericDevice ProcessNumber() to process. This is how the Decorator pattern work,
78the decorator classes implements extended functionality, but the basic class is still responsible for handling all of the basic functions.
79
80*/
81
82#define INDIVERSION 1.7 /* we support this or less */
83
84typedef enum { PRIMARY_XML, THIRD_PARTY_XML, EM_XML, HOST_SOURCE, CUSTOM_SOURCE, GENERATED_SOURCE } DriverSource;
85
86typedef enum { SERVER_CLIENT, SERVER_ONLY } ServerMode;
87
88typedef enum { DATA_FITS, DATA_VIDEO, DATA_CCDPREVIEW, DATA_ASCII, DATA_OTHER } INDIDataTypes;
89
90typedef enum { LOAD_LAST_CONFIG, SAVE_CONFIG, LOAD_DEFAULT_CONFIG, PURGE_CONFIG } INDIConfig;
91
92typedef enum { NO_DIR = 0, RA_INC_DIR, RA_DEC_DIR, DEC_INC_DIR, DEC_DEC_DIR } GuideDirection;
93
94/* GUI layout */
95#define PROPERTY_LABEL_WIDTH 130
96#define PROPERTY_LABEL_HEIGHT 30
97#define ELEMENT_LABEL_WIDTH 175
98#define ELEMENT_LABEL_HEIGHT 30
99#define ELEMENT_READ_WIDTH 175
100#define ELEMENT_WRITE_WIDTH 175
101#define ELEMENT_FULL_WIDTH 340
102#define MIN_SET_WIDTH 50
103#define MAX_SET_WIDTH 110
104#define MED_INDI_FONT 2
105#define MAX_LABEL_LENGTH 20
106
107typedef enum { PG_NONE = 0, PG_TEXT, PG_NUMERIC, PG_BUTTONS, PG_RADIO, PG_MENU, PG_LIGHTS, PG_BLOB } PGui;
108
109/* new versions of glibc define TIME_UTC as a macro */
110#undef TIME_UTC
111
112/* Devices families that we explicitly support (i.e. with std properties) */
113typedef enum
114{
115 KSTARS_ADAPTIVE_OPTICS,
116 KSTARS_AGENT,
117 KSTARS_AUXILIARY,
118 KSTARS_CCD,
119 KSTARS_DETECTORS,
120 KSTARS_DOME,
121 KSTARS_FILTER,
122 KSTARS_FOCUSER,
123 KSTARS_ROTATOR,
124 KSTARS_SPECTROGRAPHS,
125 KSTARS_TELESCOPE,
126 KSTARS_WEATHER,
127 KSTARS_UNKNOWN
128} DeviceFamily;
129
130const QMap<DeviceFamily, QString> DeviceFamilyLabels =
131{
132 {KSTARS_ADAPTIVE_OPTICS, "Adaptive Optics"},
133 {KSTARS_AGENT, "Agent"},
134 {KSTARS_AUXILIARY, "Auxiliary"},
135 {KSTARS_CCD, "CCDs"},
136 {KSTARS_DETECTORS, "Detectors"},
137 {KSTARS_DOME, "Domes"},
138 {KSTARS_FILTER, "Filter Wheels"},
139 {KSTARS_FOCUSER, "Focusers"},
140 {KSTARS_ROTATOR, "Rotators"},
141 {KSTARS_SPECTROGRAPHS, "Spectrographs"},
142 {KSTARS_TELESCOPE, "Telescopes"},
143 {KSTARS_WEATHER, "Weather"},
144 {KSTARS_UNKNOWN, "Unknown"},
145};
146
147typedef enum { FRAME_LIGHT, FRAME_BIAS, FRAME_DARK, FRAME_FLAT, FRAME_VIDEO, FRAME_NONE } CCDFrameType;
148
149const QMap<CCDFrameType, QString> CCDFrameTypeNames =
150{
151 {FRAME_LIGHT, "Light"},
152 {FRAME_DARK, "Dark"},
153 {FRAME_BIAS, "Bias"},
154 {FRAME_FLAT, "Flat"},
155 {FRAME_VIDEO, "Video"},
156 {FRAME_NONE, ""},
157};
158
159
160typedef enum { SINGLE_BIN, DOUBLE_BIN, TRIPLE_BIN, QUADRAPLE_BIN } CCDBinType;
161
162typedef enum { DURATION_MANUAL, DURATION_ADU } FlatFieldDuration;
163
164using Seconds = std::chrono::duration<double>;
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