[Hamlib-developer] Icom CI-V Trancieve issue...

[David HM S. <sp...@ze...>]

Here's an interesting issue (and potential problem):

The CI-V trancieve mode setting is defined in the manuals for my
756PRO and R-8500 to be a mode that will change the operating
frequency of all Icom radios connected to the CI-V bus if one of them
is changed; however the trancieve function is mentioned in rig.h as:

	"tranceive mode, ie. the rig notify the host of any event,like freq 
	 changed, mode changed, etc."

Having had trancieve mode turned on on both these rigs connected to
the same bus, I can vouche for the fact that it will indeed cause
freq/modes to change in all rigs connected if you change the freq/mode
on one of them.

This is a real problem if you, as I do, have one rig performing a
specific task while using another for another task, it will also be a
problem for any GUI or other control program written where more than
one Icom rig is turned on.  

Perhaps there needs to be a polling API defined (I don't know if this
is an Icom specific "feature") that will allow things like GUIs get
the state of a rig rather than depend upon the tranceive mode which
clearly doesn't do what one needs here...


73,
 David
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