Hi all,
I would like to embbed an ATU-1000 inside my amplifier. For a smooth operation I would need to switch modes (auto/manual) and read status information (mode/power/swr) programatically.
The closest solution I've seen was this project. It uses an ESP8266 and emulates a LCD to parse the LCD information as text. I'm aware that I2C as prone to noise and can get corrupted easily, so I was thinking in other ways.
Reading the tandem match voltages (power/swr) is quite easy. pushing buttons (bypass and auto/manual) is also possible but I cant find a way to determine if the tuner is in auto or manual state.
Since the ATU1000 has separate boards for RF and logic control, one option could be making a control board from scratch and writing all the code again, but I trying to leave this as last ressort due to the amount of work required to port the code to another platform.
Anyone did something like this?
