Re: [Hamlib-developer] TS-870: test 1

[Stephane F. <f4...@fr...>]

Thank you Joop, this is a very high quality report!
As you catched it, it turns out I left couple of bugs in the Kenwood
backend. For example, the get_mode "MD" which is not sending the ";".

About the get_vfo function, I still have to transform them to meaningful
strings in rigctl. Right now, the numbers are internal representation of
Hamlib (see include/hamlib/rig.h if you want). And yes, the ones you got
seems to be correct.

set_vfo: this is fine, It works. Now, I though I fixed the timeout
annoying message. I didn't. Or at the wrong place. This will be done
tomorrow (some low level function to be rework: fread_block).

set_freq: actually, error messages from the rig are ignored. will be
fixed with the rest.

set_mode: passband is mode pass band width. Most of the time, this
is narrow/normal/wide. Within Hamlib, this parameter is the width
in Hz, as found in the caps. Some macros exists.
I'll change rigctl so it can accept some aliases (narrow, normal, etc.).
BTW, 0 is default, i.e. normal passband.

You have tested the first level of support: set_vfo/get_vfo,
set_freq/get_freq and set_mode/get_mode.
Second level is memory support: set_mem/get_mem, set_channel/get_channel
(not supported in rigctl yet), etc.
Third level: get/set func/level/parms, whatever.

Thanks very much for your detailed report. I hope to provide you with a
new version before the end of the week.

Cheers,

Stephane F8CFE