Re: [Tlf-devel] hamlib in v1.2.0

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Ervin,

Am Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:43:14 +0100
schrieb Ervin Hegedüs <address@hidden>:

> Hi Thomas,
> 
> welcome back :)
>
thanks :).
 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 07:17:16AM +0100, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> > Hi Fred and others,
> > 
> > sorry for being late on this. I was away for some weeks and after
> > coming back, there was some pile on my desk at QRL (you know how it
> > is).
> > 
> > Am Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:29:35 +0100 schrieb address@hidden:
> > 
> > > I compiled now from the github master, this works as usual.
> > > 
> > > 73 Fred
> > > 
> > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > > > Von: Ed 
> > > > Gesendet: So. 16.03.2014 14:04
> > > > An: FS , ,  address@hidden
> > > > Betreff: Re: [Tlf-devel] hamlib in v1.2.0
> > > >
> > > > On 03/16/2014 07:24 AM, FS wrote:
> > > >> Hi everybody, was there any change
> > > > calling the hamlib with the new
> > > >> version? I compiled with
> > > > --enable-hamlib but it doesnt work anymore...
> > 
> > Yes, we dropped the old code for supporting the native rig
> > implementation for the ORION. Normally it should not change anything
> > for your rig number, but we will double check.
> 
> I think that's not the cause of the problem (ORION code).
> 
> I think the problem is we started to use the rig_get_vfo() in
> gettxinfo.c (as you remember, there was a bug: if you started the
> Tlf with VFO-A, and switch to VFO-B, Tlf didn't follow - using of
> rig_get_vfo() had fixed that).
>
That may be but I just wonder why the problem stopped after the switch
to the github code . If Fred uses your code that would fix it, but let
us wait for an answer from him.

In meantime I will try to look up the hamlib code for his rig. Maybe I
see the problem you mention there.

73, de Tom DL1JBE

 
> But not all RIG support this feature - in that case, the
> rig_get_vfo() returns a speciel value, which wasn't handle.
> 
> See this file for the fixup:
> 
> https://github.com/airween/tlf/blob/warc/src/gettxinfo.c
> 
> 66    retval = rig_get_vfo(my_rig, &vfo); /* initialize
> RIG_VFO_CURR */ 67      if (retval == RIG_OK || abs(retval) ==
> RIG_ENIMPL || abs(retval) == RIG_ENAVAIL) 68         retval =
> rig_get_freq(my_rig, RIG_VFO_CURR, &rigfreq);
> 
> There is in my github repo, in WARC branch - please review that.
> 
> 
> Zilvinas helped to test it - thanks again.
> 
> 
> 
> GL, 73:
> 
> Ervin
> HA2OS



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