[Hamlib-developer] IC-718 support, was Re: Hamlib-cvs-digest digest, Vol 1 #283 - 1 msg

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

Hi Chuck,

You've posted to hamlib-cvs, which is merely a mailing list where
only the cvs robot posts check in reports. hamlib-developer is for
human, and we welcome you as well in this list :-)

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 18:01:17 -0500
> From: Chuck Gilkes <ch...@we...>
> To: ham...@li...
> Subject: [Hamlib-cvs-digest] Icom:  returned values for rig_get_level
> 
> Hi all,
> I've been tring to include the ic-718 in the library.  I may have
> something to show for my efforts in a week or two.  (just started
> putzing with it this weekend)

Great! Another missing rig that'll be supported and tested!
BTW, what sources are you using for your hacking? Is it
official hamlib-1.1.2 or the latest cvs checkout?

If you'd like to, you can send me your current patch of icom/ic718.c, and
I'll commit that for you. Then, it'll be easier to test and report.

> I've playing around with testrig.c.  When I call rig_get_level(my_rig,
> RIG_VFO_CURR, RIG_LEVEL_RFPOWER, &rfpower), the following is returned:
> 
> 	get_level: 2 64 1048608897 0.250980
> 	rig_get_rfpower: rfpower = 1048608897
> 
> I can ascertain what the value 64 is and the float, but I'm at lost
> concerning the value 2 and 1048608897.

hmmm, you'd better use rigctl for testing your backend, it's much more
flexible. Have you read the README.betatester ? The link is here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/hamlib/hamlib/README.betatester?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

The "-vvvvv" option to rigctl will give also CI-V traces, quite helpful.

Concerning your problem, I not sure if RIG_LEVEL_RFPOWER has ever been
tested... Traces needed I would say.

73's
Stephane, F8CFE

PS: I can be QRV right now til 2200 UTC if needed.