Greetings,
I have CQRlog running on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine very nicely now. I also have my ICOM 756 talking to it via a USB interface. All good so far with that.
Rotor Control...How do I figure out my ROT ID MODEL and if it is supported ? I assume CQRlog uses the hamlib TCP rotator control daemon.
I use a Idiom Press ROTOR-EZ interface which I build and interfaced for my HyGain Tailtwister
I typed "which rotctld" in a terminal and "/usr/bin/rotctld" is echoed so I assume its in there.
Stephanie WX3K
Hi Stephanie!
Open console and type:
rotctl -l
You see the list of supported models.
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Saku
OH1KH
Forgot to mention that also the daemon version lists rotors with same parameter:
rotctld -l
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Saku
OH1KH
How cool is that ! It started working as soon as I restarted CQRlog. :-) Very Nice.
Stephanie WX3K
Hi Stephanie!
I have made fix to source so that rotator is now selected in same way as rig. Then the list is already available at preferences.
Should exist in future versions.
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Saku
OH1KH
Nice to know Saku !
73
Stephanie WX3K
Stephanie WX3K
Hi Stephanie!
Now when you have working rotator setup could you tell if buttons long and short path work ok?
I have played with hamlib dummy rotator and with that it seems that cqrlog can not turn rotator if path is over 180 deg, and full circle is indicated from -180 to 180.
I remember I have played with this few years ago when I designed micro controller driven rotator interface that used hamlib emulation.
I think my emulation understood circle as from 0 to 360 deg because I did not remember any cqrlog display with negative degrees.
May this be just Hamlib Dummy rotator case, or does it happen with real commercial rotators too?
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Saku
OH1KH