As the user it's a matter of GUI consistency.
Selecting the Funcube radio rightly greyed out the serial settings, a
noticeable GUI change. That leads the user to expect all the other
settings are default for the radio selected, but they aren't.
I didn't get the error warning until the main window was shown again and I
tried to change band. I realised immediately what the problem was, but a
new user could well get very puzzled.
I can see both sides of this, but as a minimum suggest:
1. Vox, mode and split buttons all deselected on a radio change.
2. Check on leaving page or on CAT test with pop up if not set or not
working, so user is warned early and in the right context.
3. Note either as a tooltip or in the manual about appropriate Rx only
settings
4. Have a tooltip on the USB drop-down to explain what it is and how to
use it, or put that in the manual in more detail than it is now.
Having said that "Rx only" is likely to be a tiny user base, but could be
very useful for public demonstration stations?
Also, support for Airspy and SDRPlay receivers?
Alan G0TLK, sent from my mobile device
On 17 July 2020 14:00:25 Black Michael via wsjt-devel
<[email protected]> wrote:
"Informed choices". I appreciate the humor.....many ops have no idea
what's supposed to work....
What I was referring to though was a flag that is "known" to be true.
Perhaps for both for split and data/pkt. WSJT-X would default to enabled
unless the the flag is present in either TRUE or FALSE state. And perhaps
the tooltip on Split and Data/pkt could indicate when we need to know if it
works or even a 1-time message to ask the user to notify us.
Mike W9MDB
On Friday, July 17, 2020, 07:52:52 AM CDT, Bill Somerville
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Mike,
although it sounds attractive I think it will not work. There are too many
partial rig emulations out there to be sure if all advertized features
really work. The whole point of settings is for the user to make informed
choices based on their knowledge of their equipment, and how they intend to
use it. I'd rather keep the basic simplicity and flexibility instead of
trying to manage their whole World for them.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 17/07/2020 13:42, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
Bill..maybe WSJT-X could use the availability of the "rig_set_split" to
enable/disable the Rig split option?
And what do you think about adding a flag in hamlib for whether or not
Data/Pkt is supported for a rig so that could be enabled/disabled?
Mike W9MDB
On Friday, July 17, 2020, 07:32:01 AM CDT, Alan Groups
<[email protected]> wrote:
25018 AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Pro+ 20200112.0 Beta
RIG_MODEL_FUNCUBEDONGLEPLUS
WSJT-X 2.2.2 works fine in FT8 mode, including changing bands, but with
some notes:
* I altered the main settings rather than create a new configuration, by
selecting the Funcube in the dropdown list
* The default radio settings included split being set by the rig - that
produced a Hamlib error. Manual change to none and all was OK. Could be a
leftover from my usual setting that does use rig split?
* Likewise had to alter mode from data/pkt to USB, again probable leftover
from my usual setting?
* PTT on VOX (which is my usual setting)
* USB setting that appeared left blank (nothing in the dropdown)
* Audio input has to be set to the Funcube
Hope that helps!
Alan G0TLK
On 16/07/2020 05:11, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
If anybody has a rig out there that's in this list and you have it working
with WSJT-X...or if you have any bugs to report working with WSJT-X please
let me know.
Would like to promote as many of these to stable as possible and WSJT-X is
one of a couple programs that exercises a rig pretty well.
Mike W9MDB
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