On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 03:58 PM, Gordon Gibby wrote:
At a minimum just be able to set the frequency and possibly go into transmit mode.
This level of stuff is possible already, you can see it operate from the command line.
On my sbitx:
1) Start the sbitx application
2) Open a Terminal
3) Install some software:
$ sudo apt install libhamlib-utils
4) Use the 'rigctl' command to send hamlib commands to the sbitx application
5) The following set my sbitx's frequency to 7070 kHz
$ rigctl -m 2 -r 127.0.0.1:4532 F 7070000Interpretation:
> -m 2 means mode 2 which is hamlib net rigctl
> -r 127.0.0.1:4532 connects to sbitx's hamlib implementation (see earlier post)
> F is the frequency command
> 70700000 is frequency in Hertz
6) Do 'man rigctl' then move forward till you see 'rigctl Commands' to get a list of the commands that should work (but most don't).
7) Cross check this with $HOME/sbitx/hamlib.c to see what is actually possible (hint: not a lot)
So you can see the 'T 1' command puts the radio into transmit and 'T 0' takes it out.
As we used to say in the early days of open source, UTSL (Use the Source, Luke!).
?if there is a way to access the sound card so much the better but external sound cards can be used. ?
This already works for wsjt-x and for fldigi, why would it not work for other software?
Or are you saying you need to use software that runs on Windows and not on Linux?
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Regards,
Dave, N1AI
Dave, N1AI