#102 Generic output for devices

[Lisa Nelson]

I've built a antenna rotator, and also wrote a program to control my kenwood radio (because it's not supported by hamlib)
If you could add a feature to Gpredict that would be on the 'Interface' settings screen for a simple generic output, that would be great. Then anyone interested in writing code or building projects related to Gpredict could very easily.
Here's what I personally would like to see:
Whenever anything changes such as the radio frequencies because of doppler or a new satellite (autotrack) or the azumith/elevation, you would send the following to a port like you do for rotators or radios. Once per second is often enough.

Sat Name, Uplink freq including doppler, Downlink freq including doppler, Azumith, Elevation

AO-85,435.176817,145.981086,280.43,12.5

With that info, both the radio control program and the antenna control program can take care of everything. Blindly sending this info to a specified port would be simple and allow anyone to customize interfaces.

I've got two custom programs running right now to do this using your data that was meant for rigctl and rotctl.

[Alexandru Csete]

Hi Lisa,
I will take your request into consideration for future updates, although as you know there are already more things on the todo list than we have time for. Anyway, please note that we no longer use this site for project development and only keep it for reference. Please use the new forum or github in the future, see http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/User_Support.php