[Orion] Orion, *nix, and hamlib

[Martin, AA6E]

Any Linux / Orion programmers out there?

I've been working on the Orion "backend" for Hamlib, the "universal"
free library that aims to provide a rig-independent programming
environment.  It is now working better with Orion, although as you
might expect, not all of Orion's features are available through the
standardized interface. It is still a work in progress, now available
at version 1.2.4.  This software runs best in a Linux environment,
although there is work on MacOS and there are Windows strategies, too.

Hamlib is a software library to support programming in C, C++, TCL,
Python, Perl, etc.  The big advantage is that your applications
programs can work many different rigs. About 200 models are supported
at some level, from Bearcats to Orions.

For those not rolling their own software, there are a number of free
applications that make use of Hamlib: gMFSK, Xlog, and others.  See
the hamlib website at http://hamlib.sourceforge.net .

I'd be happy to hear from Orion programmers who want to work with Hamlib.

73, Martin AA6E
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martin.ewing at gmail.com
http://blog.aa6e.net