Re: [Hamlib-developer] Python API

[Stephen P. <st...@bi...>]

Hi Dave, Erik, Adrian & Nate,

Thanks for your help guys. I now have my Python app talking to rigctld 
via TCP and getting frequency, mode and tx status, which as was pointed 
out is probably the preferred way to go. Of course, I could just use 
rigctl if all I wanted to do was send the odd command to the radio, but 
the main purpose was to have rigctld running so I could get multiple 
processes to talk to my radio.

Dave, your code snippet was most helpful - thanks.
Eric, I am starting rigctld from Popen(). The whole idea was to develop 
a little app to start and stop rigctld in a window (tkinter) without 
having to resorts to the command line.

It does expose another issue however in that I seem to have a 
reliability problem with the IC7300 USB interface which results in the 
rigctld daemon getting into a state where it doesn't respond and using 
up 25% of the PCs CPU. I don't have physical access to the system at 
present, so I'll wait till I do and maybe ask another question.

Anyway - thanks guys.
73 Steve

PS Sad news about W9MDB - I was very sorry to hear that.