[arm-allstar] remote base node functioning question

[David McGough]

Sam,

I haven't personally used the Syntor X-cat adapter. I looked at their
yahoo group and the documentation in the "files" section. Otherwise, I've
used rigctl to manage many different radios, with great success. The first
place to start is from the BBB shell prompt, with remote-base support
disabled in app_rpt.  Once you get familiar with the various rigctl
commands, macros for access via AllStar are pretty easy--just directly
call the rigctl command from AllStar.

I'm guessing you're using the CI-V interface method for the Xcat? Are you
using full VFO capability, or just changing the Syntor's modes (AKA: 
channels)?

If simply changing modes, I'm guessing some command something like this 
will work:

/usr/local/bin/rigctl -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -m 311 -s 19200 -c0x20 h 27

-r /dev/ttyUSB0   #### serial interface to use...
-s 19200    #### serial data rate (Xcat uses 19200, based on the manual)
-c0x20   #### CI-V address (Xcat is fixed at 0x20, from the manual)
h 27   #### "h 27"  changes to memory channel channel 27


"rigctl -l" will get a list of supported radio back-ends. I'd recommend
trying various Icom back-ends, hopefully finding something that works
100%.

rigctl -l #### Get list of available back-ends

"rigctl -m 311 -u" will get a list of supported features for a given
back-end, try this. Note that the "-m 311" uses the ic-706mk2g back-end.

rigctl -m 311 -u #### Get supported features for back-end 311


I'll try to help further, once I understand more about your setup.


73, David KB4FXC



On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sam Nabkey wrote:

> That's cool.  Care to share some setup examples?  I'd love to see them.
> 
> K8SN
> On Jun 17, 2015 6:51 AM, "David McGough" <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > I'm guessing that you're trying to use the built-in remote-base code in
> > app_rpt??  If so, the only thing I can suggest at this point is to use
> > hamlib (the "rigctl" program), instead of the built-in code.
> >
> > I use hamlib for several radios hosted by BBB's, etc., and it works
> > perfectly for me.
> >
> >
> > 73, David KB4FXC
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Sam Skolfield wrote:
> >
> > > Really too bad, I'm so close to success with what is obviously one of
> > very
> > > few attempts at a frequency-agile BBB node. Looking at the console with
> > any
> > > level of verbosity doesn't seem to reveal any useful information.
> > > Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll be able to fix this any time
> > soon.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Sam Nabkey <sam.nabkey at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I wish I had time and more knowledge. ..
> > > >
> > > > It's fun to try and figure it all out. .
> > > > On Jun 16, 2015 5:06 PM, "Sam Skolfield" <kj6qfs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi Sam!
> > > >> That's frustrating! Perhaps someone can help us fix this bug? There
> > has
> > > >> to be more people that want to use frequency agile remote bases than
> > just
> > > >> the two Sams....
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Sam Nabkey <sam.nabkey at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> This is one of the same issues I experienced with the bbb code.  The
> > cli
> > > >>> will be blowing can't hang up errors at you while this is going on.
> > My
> > > >>> only recourse was to reboot.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> I went to an acid version before the changes were made to the channel
> > > >>> drivers that was "fixed" to work reliably on the bbb to get my
> > remote to
> > > >>> work.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Sam K8SN
> > > >>> On Jun 16, 2015 8:04 AM, "Sam Skolfield" <kj6qfs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> David, I'm using a *1 xxxx (xxxx being the node)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> _______________________________________________
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> arm-allstar mailing list
> > > >>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > > >>>> http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Visit the BBB web page -
> > > >>>> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> _______________________________________________
> > > >>>
> > > >>> arm-allstar mailing list
> > > >>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > > >>> http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Visit the BBB web page -
> > > >>> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> KJ6QFS
> > > >> Sam Skolfield
> > > >>
> > > >> _______________________________________________
> > > >>
> > > >> arm-allstar mailing list
> > > >> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > > >> http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
> > > >>
> > > >> Visit the BBB web page -
> > > >> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > >
> > > > arm-allstar mailing list
> > > > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > > > http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
> > > >
> > > > Visit the BBB web page -
> > > > http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> > arm-allstar mailing list
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
> > http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
> >
> > Visit the BBB web page -
> > http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/
> >
>