Re: [Hamlib-developer] Yet problems with ts-850.

[David Q. <ct...@io...>]

Hello to all,

tks for all help that you are giving me to solve my problems with my ts-850.

My coments at end of this email.
> Op wo, 15-03-2006 te 21:47 +0100, schreef Alexandru Csete:
>
>
>   
>> I took a glance at the TS-811 and TS-850 backends. The former uses the
>> generic kenwood_get_level while the 850 uses it's own implementation,
>> probably because the generic implementation does not yet implement all
>> levels.
>>     
>
> Hi Alex, yes I saw this to. The functions in ic10.c seem to work better
> for the ts850.
>
>   
>> Now, I noticed two potential problems in ts850.c: First, it does not
>> have RIG_LEVEL_STRENGTH in the caps, thus a front-end checking
>> has_get_level will not be able to use RIG_LEVEL_STRENGTH because it
>> thinks it is not available.
>>     
>
> Okay, added to CVS.
>
>   
>> Second, the level conversion code uses a
>> different offset in the received string buffer than the one in
>> kenwood.c, which seems to work via the 811. This probably causes an
>> error in sscanf, which then may return 0 or something else all the
>> time.
>> It seems that a bug fix once made in kenwood.c did not make it into ts850.c
>>     
>
> I will have a look. The TS850 doesn't seem very well tested. There is
> also some error handling missing.
>
> If anyone with a ts850 and some programming experience wants to step in,
> please do...
>   
Well, I can give a help, because I have one ts-850, but I have not 
programming experience, but with some explanations, maybe I will get 
some, but tks anyway.
>   
>> 73
>> Alex OZ9AEC
>>
>>     
>
> Regards,
> Joop PG4I
>
>
>   
Best 73s.

CT1DRB
David Quental

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