On 6/18/2024 1:08 PM, Dave w6de wrote:
Both DXView and Spot Collector use the Master Database (Logbook). Both of these and DXKeeper have to be shut down when you switch between computers.
DXView will only use the log specified by DXKeeper on the local
machine as it has no provision to define the log's location (or
which log to use). SpotCollector will use a log located on
another computer (specified in "Use Log in specified pathname"
on SC's Config -> General tab). I regularly run a second copy
of SC on my "office" computer with it referencing the open
log on my ham shack computer.
It would be very handy if DXKeeper had the ability to open a
remote log in "read only" and use TCP/IP commands (the same
commands used by WSJTX/JTAlert) to log new QSOs to that remote
log (via a copy of DXKeeper running on the remote system).
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 6/18/2024 1:08 PM, Dave w6de wrote:
Both DXView and Spot Collector use the Master Database (Logbook). Both of these and DXKeeper have to be shut down when you switch between computers.
73,
Dave, w6de
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck, WS1L via groups.io
Sent: 18 June, 2024 11:46
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DXLab] Accessing Log on two computers - unexpected behavior
Yesterday I tried to access my log on a laptop at one of my other radios. I installed only Launcher and DXKeeper, and pointed it to my log in OneDrive. Before I started DXKeeper on the laptop I shut it down on the desktop.
DXKeeper started fine, found my log, opened it, everything appeared normal. I made two QSOs and logged them. Then I shut down DXKeeper on the laptop and moved over to the main position, where I opened DXKeeper on the desktop. The two laptop QSOs were not in the log.
This morning I logged a few QSOs on the desktop, then shut down DXKeeper and moved to the laptop. I started DXKeeper on the laptop and the morning desktop QSOs were not in that log.
I shut down the laptop DXKeeper, went back to the desktop, started the desktop DXKeeper and again it only had the desktop QSOs on it. I closed the desktop DXKeeper.
I opened the OneDrive from the system tray and saw it was still uploading after several minutes. Knowing the SpotCollector also refers to the log, I then closed SpotCollector on the desktop - it was not installed on the laptop, I had been using the webserver to look at spots from the desktop on the laptop.
Closing SpotCollector allowed the log to sync in OneDrive but it complained that there were now two versions of the file.
I've exported the two laptop QSOs into the desktop log, so my log is correct. No worries there. I did read the wiki on using two PCs, and it only mentioned being sure to only have one instance of DXKeeper active at a time. Is there a similar need to only have one instance of SpotCollector running as well?
Are there any other best practices for accessing my log via multiple computers? My shack has three operating positions and one of them is far enough away from the screen, keyboard and mouse that I had been using remote desktop software to log but rendering the desktops big screen on my laptop is hard on the eyes. Running DXKeeper alone would be a better way to log from that position.
73 de Chuck, WS1L
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