[Trlog] TRlog-Linux 0.52 Radio Settings for TCI support question

[Carlin Royal]

Thank you Kevin for the quick response. However I still cannot get the 
two to communicate over the tciadapter. I have never seen or used a CFG 
line like you provided here, only just like the one you provided in the 
trlinux manual from years ago you had made for us.  Below is what I have 
and works on ExpertSDR2 and with the tciadaptor and tt0tty setup:

WINKEYER PORT = SERIAL /dev/ttyUSB0
RADIO ONE TYPE = TS-480
RADIO ONE CONTROL PORT = SERIAL /dev/tnt1
RADIO ONE BAUD RATE = 57600

I did as you suggested, and created the rigctld file, made it 
exucutable, placed it in the working directory I launch ./trlog from, 
and still nothing. I had changed the CFG line to read RADIO ONE TYPE = 
rigctld;4532;/dev/tnt1;2028;57600;38;timeout=500; and deleted the 
CONTROL PORT and BAUD RATE lines listed above. Since you mentioned, with 
the dummy rigctld and your statement "everything but the rigctld and 
4532 will be ignored" I guess what else I added/changed did not matter. 
None the less, trlinux started, keyer worked, but no radio communication 
unfortunately.

I wish I could help with option 1 below in the code, but my experience 
with that is extremely limited and I feel lucky I could follow along 
and  understand your procedures below :)

Interesting thing I did notice, was while CQrlog was running, I issued 
from a terminal "ps -aux | grep rigctld" and nothing showed it was 
running,,, same with TRlinux even during the setup with ExpertSDR2 
working and ExpertSDR3 that does not work. It does list the tciadaptor 
as shown on the previous email although.

Thanks again for all you have done for the group.

I will keep looking and trying to learn to get this all going.

Looking forward to building the SO2Rmini soon and keeping up with all 
the new changes Ive seen come on the reflector lately.


On 7/10/22 16:29, w9cf at arrl.net wrote:
> I am unsure how the Expert rig works, but I'll make some assumptions
> and maybe this can help. TR currently interfaces with rigctld by using
> a command like:
>
> RADIO ONE TYPE = rigctld;4532;/dev/ttyTS590sg_a;2037;115200;38;timeout=500;
>
> which forks rigctld as a subprocess receiving on port 4532. The other
> entries are options to rigctld. TR then forks ncat and sends
> hamlib rigctld commands to ncat which are sent to the rigctld port.
>
> If what you want is to have TR just send rigctld commands to the port
> without starting a rigctld process, you could either:
> 1. Change the code or help us change it for this purpose.
> 2. Use a dummy rigctld that does nothing.
>
> For 2, I just tried the following.
> 1. Added the line
> RADIO ONE TYPE = rigctld;4532;/dev/ttyTS590sg_a;2037;115200;38;timeout=500;
> everything but the rigctld and 4532 will be ignored, but something needs
> to be in those slots.
> 2. In the directory where you plan to run trlog, create the file
> rigctld containing
>
> #!/bin/sh
> sleep infinity
>
> and make this file executable
> chmod +x rigctld
>
> 3. Start trlog with
> PATH=`pwd`:$PATH trlog
>
> Since the working directory is at the front of the path for this command,
> TR will fork the dummy rigctld process, and then start sending hamlib
> commands to the port specified above, i.e 4532.
>
> 73 Kevin w9cf
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Carlin Royal wrote:
>> Hello and thank you for reading this email.
>>
>> To the point: Can TRlinux interface with the localhost (127.0.0.1:4532
>> hamlib/rigctl default) someway that I am missing versus something like
>> /dev/xxx?
>>
>> I am trying to setup TRlinux 0.52 with an ExpertSDR QRP transceiver. The SDR
>> has NO physical Com ports for CAT control, but offers settings for the use
>> of Virtual Com Ports in their software ExpertSDR2 and with the help of
>> tt0tty (a Linux virtual com port solution) I could and have had everything
>> working for some time now. In TRlinux, simply setting :
>>
>> RADIO ONE TYPE = TS480
>> RADIO ONE CONTROL PORT = SERIAL /dev/tnt1
>> RADIO ONE BAUD RATE = 57600
>>
>> The above will work just fine on ExpertSDR2, (and yes the SDR appears as a
>> TS480 for hamlib purposes with CAT) but I cannot use that with ExpertSDR3,
>> as there is no virtual com ports. Lately, I have been testing/using the
>> newer ExpertSDR3 software, and it appears they are going away from even
>> Virtual Com Ports and using strictly there own interface called Transceiver
>> Connection Interface or TCI support linked here:
>> https://github.com/maksimus1210/TCI
>>
>> I installed the "tciadapter" software that interfaces rigctl/hamlib linked
>> here: https://github.com/ftl/tciadapter ,, and it works great with CQRlog so
>> it seems I have everything setup correctly,, but when trying to make the
>> necessary changes to the CFG file in TRlinux, I cannot get them to
>> communicate for rig data. I have tried several things, but TRlinux just
>> fails and doesn't start. Examples below:
>>
>> RADIO ONE CONTROL PORT = SERIAL localhost:4532
>>
>> RADIO ONE CONTROL PORT = SERIAL localhost
>>
>> RADIO ONE CONTROL PORT = SERIAL 127.0.0.1:4532
>>
>> RADIO ONE CONTROL PORT = SERIAL 127.0.0.1
>>
>> ETC ETC
>>
>> Am I missing something really easy here, I am still wanting to communicate
>> with Hamlib/rigctl as far as I understand like CQRlog is doing, but TRlinux
>> just doesn't start with the above examples?
>>
>> I have attached two PNG files, on of the running tciadapter service, and one
>> of the CQRlog settings that work.
>>
>> THANKS!!!!
>>
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