All,
Further to my email below I've now written a page on my website and have
included a zip file with the script for people to have a look at. No
warranty or guarantee can be offered for the use of the software, nor
any responsibility for anything going wrong. I've not thoroughly tested
the script, though I've not had any problems on my system.
I'd be interested in comments on the functionality and usefulness of it.
73, Iain M0PCB
On 08/01/2013 17:21, Iain Kelly wrote:
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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