All,
I only caught this thread partway through, and the recent Digest emails
have been quite lengthy so I don't even know who was asking originally.
However I do have my own solution to this problem.
I originally wanted something to be able to fire off the DVR without
using a contest logger, currently Win-Test and the LUA scripts
available. Sadly for the local RSGB VHF contests I use another program
that doesn't have rig control. I found a program called K-Keys by KE3C
which allows up to 10 macros to be defined and assigned to keyboard
short-cuts.
I then found KTune by G4ILO and that got me thinking about an off-board
controller for tuning and custom macros. I came across the ShuttlePROv2
which is a video-editing tool and has a jog wheel, fast-fwd and rev
control and a number of buttons. These actions can all be assigned to
keystrokes in the driver application. However, I found that although
KTune worked well with this, K-Keys wasn't able to pick up the keystrokes.
The ShuttlePRO is definitely generating the correct keys, so I had a
problem after having spent £70 on the controller. A friend of mine
suggested I ought to write something myself using AutoIt - a windows
scripting tool. Based on an example file and a DLL someone had written
for it I managed to cobble together an application that sits in the
background and controls the K3 nicely through LP_Bridge.
I've implemented most of the macros I want to do, mode switching, amp
control and message memories as well as variable rate tuning and jog
wheel for VFO A and stepped tuning of VFOB and automatic 2kHz CW split.
I am planning on making the SSB mode change smart by reading the
frequency from the rig and setting LSB and USB depending on the answer.
I also want to make the 'split' intelligent for CW and SSB as well. I'm
also thinking about adding in a GUI to configure the macros and com port
settings, but I'm not able to promise I can do that any time soon as the
program is working for me as it stands.
I'm not a software engineer, the settings etc are all hard coded, but I
was able to generate an executable that I have in my start-up folder. I
only wrote it on Sunday 6th Jan so it's not finished but certainly
working in I guess an alpha test.
If anyone would like a look at the script I can send it to them, I've
not had chance to get it onto my website yet (www.m0pcb.co.uk) but
hoping to do that today. I am not really willing to release it as a
working program yet as it's very much a prototype at the moment.
If anyone is interested it might be best to talk off-line as I often
don't get chance to read through the daily digest emails in much detail
and I may miss things.
73, Iain M0PCB
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