Comment # 2 on bug 918949 from Wolfgang Bauer

FYI, the problem was that 13.2 shipped with a too old libindi for the included
kstars version, so the support in kstars was silently disabled as a result.
(kstars tends to always need the very latest libindi...)

Later openSUSE (Leap) versions did/do come with newer libindi of course, and a
kstars with libindi support.

Btw, you can always get the latest kstars and libindi from the KDE:Extra
repository.