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

[Tony L. <vk...@gm...>]

On 5/03/2014 6:44 PM, Art Botterell wrote:
> 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.
Good point!  However, physically, tuners are connected to radios, unless 
you use switches or re-patch cables, so the abstration (mostly) holds, 
in that the rig has a tuner and/or rotator attached, the question being 
whether the command path is via the radio (like with the new equipment 
in the examples given) or direct to the peripheral.  And that could be 
done with the drivers - radios with the ability to control peripherals 
via CAT could expose these control pathways in their drivers.  These 
would appear as an instance of the peripheral, associated with the 
radio.  A separate peripheral would use a separate control path, but 
still be associated with a radio, though in this case, the association 
can be changed.

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