[Hamlib-developer] Fun with RotorEZ

[Orv B. <w6...@pa...>]

I got my RotorEZ card assembled into my Ham IV this evening, and
exercised Nate's virgin code.  Some observations:

The P <az> <el> command appears to work properly.  Giving rotctl the P
command results in

Azimuth?  (type in 3 digits here)
Elevation? (000) <Enter>

And the rotor obediently turns to 030 degrees.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that the p command doesn't return consistent azimuth
results.  

With the rotor at 030 degrees, successive 'p's returned the following
byte strings:

String     Rotctl interpretation
=======    =======================
33 33 3b   33; degrees
30 32 39   29.0 degrees (? might have the degrees wrong)
3b 30 32   ;02 degrees
39 3b 30   9;0 degrees

Rotating the rotor to 330 degrees, and typing 'p' four times resulted
in:

31 35 3b   15;
33 33 33   333
3b 33 33   ;33
33 3b 33   3;3

So, there's an offset or a typo someplace, I suspect.  Hope this
debugging helps.  Let me know if there's other tests you'd like me to
do.

Good start, though!  I'm excited!   

One wish - on a rotor with no elevation, can we suppress the query and
printout on rotctl?   It's distracting and a bit annoying..

Are there any GUI front ends extant for rotor control?

73 - Orv - W6BI
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Orv Beach <w6...@pa...>