Re: [Hamlib-developer] (no subject)

[Alexander N. <var...@gm...>]

Thank you, Sebastian, this module looks very promising.

Regards,
Alexander.

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:40 PM Sebastian Weiß (DL3YC) <dl...@da...>
wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> i think you could use a K3NG rotator pc interface and attach your sensor
> to it.
>
> https://github.com/k3ng/k3ng_rotator_controller
>
> 73! Sebastian DL3YC
>
> On 25.06.2017 20:53, Alexander Nikolaev wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> My first message here, please excuse a complete newbie question.
>
> I'm building an antenna system for ham satellite communication. Instead of
> using mechanical rotator I'm planning to direct antenna to the satellite
> manually, using Gpredictor as a guide. It would be great if Gpredictor can
> show actual antenna direction on its "Rotator control" window (https://www.dropbox.com/s/hxblsvuf06s6t33/Screenshot%202017-06-25%2021.07.26.png?dl=0
> ,
> Gpredictor interfaces with rotctld for rotator control)
>
> It's very easy to get antenna direction using absolute orientation sensor
> like Adafruit's BNO055 and the like. There are similar sensors with USB
> interface out there.
>
> So the question is: is it possible to create hamlib's [psudo]rotator
> module, which sole purpose is to report  back actual antenna position? It
> can accept (and silently ignore) all "set" commands and report back actual
> antenna position for "get" commands. How easy it would be to implement this
> rotator module and what module should I look for as a starting point?
>
> 73,
>
> Alex N
> UB3AGB
>
>
>
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