Re: [Hamlib-stationserver] Philosophy: Abstraction vs Rig Interface Artifacts

[Art B. <ac...@in...>]

On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Nate Bargmann <n0...@n0...> wrote:
> On a related note,
> Elecraft has the K-line which consists of the K3 transceiver, P3
> panadapter, KAT500 auto tuner, and KPA500 amplifier all of which can be
> daisy-chained to a single RS-232 port and they handle receiving commands
> between the devices.

Marine electronics vendors have been doing the same thing for awhile, creating proprietary data busses to link their radars, depthfinders, and so on.  (DECnet / Corvus Servers, anyone?)

> At the rate things are going, the server will need to expect any sort of
> device on a physical port and multiple devices of differing sorts as the
> K-line above.

Hmmm... yes, the Rig level of abstraction may become less meaningful than it used to be.  It may make more sense to model in terms of a Station as a collection of functional components accessible via a single server.

Thanks!

- Art