Re: ToDo item: switch logfile to database

2023-12-28 Thread Drew Arnett
I was ignoring the utility of SQL/RDBMS operations. (Am I misremembering or are there libs to do that with flat text "table" data structures already?) I like that sqlite "how to corrupt" article. It does point out very well that data safety isn't simply application level question/architecture/so

Re: ToDo item: switch logfile to database

2023-12-28 Thread Drew Arnett
Would a database store offer any useful utility? Journaling or ? for robustness? Power loss during portable contesting with a laptop or desktop or Pi or ? ... would be nice if no data loss and simple resumption after power is restored. Or is the choice of HW/OS/filesystem more useful for that so

Re: Few questions about tlf code

2023-07-10 Thread Drew Arnett
Another vote for 80 columns. I like to run tlf in an 80x25 or 80x24 console/monitor. If I want to edit on the same platform... Tabs vs spaces is always an interesting question. I guess so long as the tabs are all meant to be 8 char (or 4 or whatever the convention is for the project). Best reg

Re: not1mm

2023-05-17 Thread Drew Arnett
16 May 09:07 -0500, Drew Arnett wrote: > > In the world of open source contest loggers, just saw this posted on > > reddit: https://github.com/mbridak/not1mm > > I do like his sense of humor, especially the Men Without Hats reference! > > > Cross platform for networked lo

not1mm

2023-05-16 Thread Drew Arnett
In the world of open source contest loggers, just saw this posted on reddit: https://github.com/mbridak/not1mm Cross platform for networked logging is definitely one thing I'm interested in. Best regards, Drew n7da

Re: TLF - feature request

2023-03-16 Thread Drew Arnett
Interesting. I"ve used call history files (sometimes shared for various events on the N1MM files website). Nice to type in a callsign and have exchange fields prefilled using the call history, though I listen really closely to see that the information this year is the same or if something changed

TLF publicity

2023-01-01 Thread Drew Arnett
I was delighted to see TLF in the California QSO Party results video. https://youtu.be/5OkXZqPYd_4?t=752 Drew n7da

TLF, open source contest logging SW, and contest logging SW future

2022-11-14 Thread Drew Arnett
I think asking what is in the future is a great question. Is it continued innovation and features for the top contesters? You know, the ones who need 2 or more radios to keep from getting bored during a contest and are doing 400+ QSOs/hour. Is there room for innovation for more average contester

Re: What is the tlf future?

2022-10-17 Thread Drew Arnett
The error message told you exactly what was wrong. That the library rich was not installed. Don't worry; this is a common Python newcomer topic. rich isn't part of the standard library that comes with Python, so needs to be installed. (pypi.org is a large, but not exhaustive catalog of 3rd part

Re: How to add a contest?

2022-10-08 Thread Drew Arnett
Assuming you don't need TLF to calculate a score on the fly nor track multipliers worked or needed, can TLF work for you for these contests? Rather than trying to modify TLF to score or track multipliers worked or needed, I'd suggest writing a small second program to do that by watching/reading th

Re: Winkeydaemon Help

2022-08-29 Thread Drew Arnett
More details, please. :-) Maybe enough for someone to reproduce or at least figure out what is going on? Which winkeydaemon? (I know of at least 3 different programs to provide a cwdaemon interface to WinKeyer.) It should be possible for muting to work, in theory at least. My implementation w

Re: winkeydaemon

2022-08-08 Thread Drew Arnett
So, what hardware device are you trying to use? A USB serial adapter? Something else? (Non-USB serial ports won't have USB in the device filename.) Regardless, should show up in dmesg during boot time. On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 7:33 PM Ed wrote: > > I got the file packaged and made it executable

Re: winkeydaemon

2022-08-08 Thread Drew Arnett
How did you install that? With your distro's package manager or some other way? If some other way, what was it? If you have the file tool installed (https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/file/file.1.en.html), what does 'file /home/ed/bin/winkeydaemon' say? Best regards, Drew n7da On Mon, Aug 8,

Re: Mint 21

2022-08-06 Thread Drew Arnett
Try running it not at boot, not as a daemon, but run it in the foreground launching it by hand instead to see if any of the debugging messages help. I've never seen tlf fail to send to cwdaemon; perhaps share the uncommented line(s) you have for netkeyer in your tlf config? Could try one of the o

Re: CWdaemon

2022-07-14 Thread Drew Arnett
/dev/ttyUSB0 maybe? Check the device file. dmesg will tell you if nothing else. Does cwdaemon have a verbose flag to turn on debugging messages? On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:44 PM Ed wrote: > > New install of Fedora36, I used the repository for TLF and cwdaemon. > > I copied my TLF contests from

TXDELAY used?

2021-03-06 Thread Drew Arnett
Hi, I was looking at the cwdaemon 'd' command which controls delay for PTT. Looks like TLF only uses at startup to configure this with a config file entry: TXDELAY (Turn On Delay) control for cwdaemon. The value of TOD from logcfg.dat is sent to the keyer at startup. Value range i

Re: why 25 rows?

2021-02-25 Thread Drew Arnett
Thanks, gang! Drew n7da On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:48 PM Thomas Beierlein wrote: > > Hi Drew, hi Christoph, > > Am Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:04:52 +0100 > schrieb Christoph Berg : > > > Re: Drew Arnett > > > Dumb question: why 25 rows? Sorry for asking first, befor

why 25 rows?

2021-02-25 Thread Drew Arnett
Hi, Dumb question: why 25 rows? Sorry for asking first, before examining code. Is there a design to the screen layout? Why I bring up the question... The official Raspberry Pi 7" screen with the closest linux console font that I found (didn't search for more options) ends up at 24 rows instea

Re: IC-7610

2021-01-11 Thread Drew Arnett
tlf. Drew n7da On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 2:27 PM Hegedüs Ervin wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 02:15:00PM +, Drew Arnett wrote: > > Does hamlib support keying through the CAT serial port device? > > yes, take a look to this (especially in case of Pytho

Re: IC-7610

2021-01-11 Thread Drew Arnett
How is this supposed to work when it is all setup and running? Does hamlib support keying through the CAT serial port device? Does TLF support that, too? On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:28 AM Juanjo EA8BGO wrote: > > Hamlib 3.3 I installed it from source. > > With $ ./configure --with-python-binding

Re: IC-7610

2021-01-10 Thread Drew Arnett
Are you trying to key the 7610 directly via its USB? Or do you have a USB keyer adapter you are using between the PC and the 7610? (something like the K1EL WinKeyer USB or one of the others) Drew n7da On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:49 PM Juanjo EA8BGO wrote: > > Dear Friends > > I have recently purc

Re: TLF and Hamlib 4 - things to look for

2020-12-16 Thread Drew Arnett
Dumb question: Can some of this be avoided by running rigctld and then pointing tlf to the daemon? They didn't change the network protocol for rigctld, did they? Best regards, Drew n7da On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:48 AM Thomas Beierlein wrote: > > Hi all, > > if you want to play with the new Ha

Re: tlf comments after CQP

2020-10-05 Thread Drew Arnett
I was really concerned with. > > I love tlf, and am woking on using it for SO2R. Basically, I'll have a > computer hooked up to each radio, but send the xterm of one to the > other so they're both on the same monitor. > > 73, Jim KK0U > > On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 23:23:

tlf comments after CQP

2020-10-04 Thread Drew Arnett
Hi, I used TLF for the CQP (California QSO Party) yesterday from San Diego county. (Debian stable tlf package version 1.3.2-1) Worked fairly well. Would be nice to have 2 entry boxes to tab between for serial and qth (mult) instead of one, but it was workable. I used an initial file which held

Re: can we benefit from N1MM's UDC files?

2019-12-19 Thread Drew Arnett
Conceptually interesting idea. I'd suggest a separate project/tool/application. One that could fetch the UDC content (it's on the net afterall) and output appropriate TLF config file(s) or appropriate TLF config file(s) template(s). Would want to see if the UDC stuff is under the same or differe

Re: pywinkeyerdaemon

2019-12-12 Thread Drew Arnett
d involves using the 'buffered speed command' indefinitely. I had thought that would be appropriate to use for just a single message. Maybe not. Hmm. Best regards, Drew n7da On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 4:30 PM Drew Arnett wrote: > > Two issues: > 1. I expanded prosigns af

Re: ARRL 160m

2019-12-08 Thread Drew Arnett
entry if the band dropped out or QRM or something meant the QSO didn't get completed. Don't need to do that most of the time. Drew n7da On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 5:48 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2019 08 Dec 10:07 -0600, Drew Arnett wrote: > > I played for a couple of h

Re: pywinkeyerdaemon

2019-12-08 Thread Drew Arnett
Nov 30, 2019 at 4:29 AM Drew Arnett wrote: > > I'll trouble shoot this with Joop off list. Shouldn't be related to > the type of serial port, but we will see. First step was a better > assertion statement that would provide the value that failed to match. > Good sign that

Re: ARRL 160m

2019-12-08 Thread Drew Arnett
I played for a couple of hours with the 160m contest as well from a very noisy location, so not very many QSOs. Worked a big gun east of the Mississippi, but no KG4 for me. :-) Didn't consult with Nate for rules or config file. Just grabbed the distributed arrl160m_usa rules and merged a bit fr

padding in cwdaemon packets

2019-12-07 Thread Drew Arnett
Doing some debugging and cleanup of my pywinkerdaemon implementation of cwdaemon. (I introduced some bugs with recent feature introduction.) A few years ago, I looked at the UDP packets several different cwdaemon clients sent. Some, like TLF, send a single trailing null character which is not ne

Re: pywinkeyerdaemon

2019-11-29 Thread Drew Arnett
ort.read(1).decode() == test_char > AssertionError > > > Joop PG4I > > Op 26-11-19 om 00:44 schreef Drew Arnett: > > Finally knocked off some todos including porting to python3. (still > > runs on 2 as well) > > > > Also, finally added in message +/-

Re: Using hamlib for CW keying

2019-11-27 Thread Drew Arnett
Hamlib is great and really achieved a lot. Very neat what clients can do with that library for sure. But, all in one solutions sometimes get, um, interesting. cwdaemon defined a protocol. So, anyone can write a replacement, that tlf and others, can use. And they have. cwdaemon itself doesn't

pywinkeyerdaemon

2019-11-25 Thread Drew Arnett
Finally knocked off some todos including porting to python3. (still runs on 2 as well) Also, finally added in message +/- controls (tested with TLF) and support for cwdaemon prosigns. (I hadn't been using these sorts of things, so hadn't missed them personally, but they've been on the TODO list

Re: TLF-1.4.0 release

2019-11-25 Thread Drew Arnett
t; schrieb Nate Bargmann : > > > * On 2019 23 Nov 08:14 -0600, Drew Arnett wrote: > > > Resize is fine, but please continue to support 80x25 long term. I > > > don't see classic TUI losing value anytime soon. > > > > Do you mean that Tlf should enforce

Re: Support for K3NG Arduino keyer

2019-11-24 Thread Drew Arnett
age with subject or body 'help' to > > > tlf-devel-requ...@nongnu.org > > > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > > tlf-devel-ow...@nongnu.org > > > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is

Re: tlf and the nano editor

2019-11-23 Thread Drew Arnett
Zoli's idea is the first thing I thought of, too. But the suggested method of using EDITOR from tlf config as first priority, then falling back on the shell environmental variable as 2nd priority I think would be better. I could image someone preferring some editor for most of their usual work, b

Re: Using hamlib for CW keying

2019-11-23 Thread Drew Arnett
Portable is good. So I'd ask if hamlib found it possible to support speed changes. KX3 is only 3 wire serial CAT interface, so no RTS/DTR style keying possible. In that case, I suppose a Y cable could be fabricated that fans out RTS/DTR to a separate key plug. That's a bit tidier perhaps. Anot

Re: TLF-1.4.0 release

2019-11-23 Thread Drew Arnett
Resize is fine, but please continue to support 80x25 long term. I don't see classic TUI losing value anytime soon. What about a 2nd application, tlf-config or easy-tlf-config, which would have the pulldown menus etc for setting up config files. Keep the pulldown menus out of tlf. Once you add m

Re: Using hamlib for CW keying

2019-11-21 Thread Drew Arnett
When you ask for keying by hamlib, you are asking for keying via CAT, correct? (I would have to look to see if hamlib supports anything besides the CAT port on rigs, like the key line.) I wrote a python application that acts like cwdaemon listening on a network socket, and drives a USB to key ada

Re: TLF-1.4.0 release

2019-11-17 Thread Drew Arnett
I've been using tlf off and on for a couple of years now. Used it for ARRL SS CW most recently. Huge fan of the TUI. Run it with no windows manager, so no having the window manager focus run off someplace. :-) Like what happens if using someone's laptop with N1MM and the heel of the hand hits

Re: log edit

2019-11-11 Thread Drew Arnett
> So either pick up the actual sources from github and compile it > yourself or wait for the shortly coming TLF-1.4.0 version. > > 83, de Tom DL1JBE > > > Am Sun, 10 Nov > 2019 17:34:51 + schrieb Drew Arnett : > > > The recent discussion reminded me of an issue

log edit

2019-11-10 Thread Drew Arnett
work a huge number of QSOs, but tlf did great for me, as always, with the recent ARRL SS CW contest. Best regards, Drew Arnett n7da

Re: [Tlf-devel] TLF run mode problem

2019-08-01 Thread Drew Arnett
or tlf being packaged in debian and being a TUI (text user interface) program with no mouse input! :-) Thanks for your patience and help. Best regards, Drew kb9fko On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 7:08 PM Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:42:23PM +, Drew

Re: [Tlf-devel] TLF run mode problem

2019-08-01 Thread Drew Arnett
in Hegedüs wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:17:13AM +, Drew Arnett wrote: > > I just tried a fairly new desktop hard disk (less than a year old) > > with an older USB 2.0 to SATA adapter. I put my local working > > directory there (logcfg.dat, ru

Re: [Tlf-devel] TLF run mode problem

2019-07-31 Thread Drew Arnett
behaves. Thanks and best regards, Drew kb9fko On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 1:26 AM Drew Arnett wrote: > > I just subscribed to the tlf-devel list, so I should get those emails > in my mailbox now. (I was using the archive web page.) > > I will respond to Ervin and Tom's emails.

Re: [Tlf-devel] TLF run mode problem

2019-07-31 Thread Drew Arnett
Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:18 PM Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > > Drew, Thomas, and all, > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 02:26:25PM +, Drew Arnett wrote: > > I don't have Debian Buster actually, but have a Debian SID - it's > not so far from Buster :), and all rel

[Tlf-devel] TLF run mode problem

2019-07-30 Thread Drew Arnett
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