Hercules MIDI with 6300

Javier, KC2QII

William,

FYI,

After updating to Ver 1.4.3.55, working remote from my laptop, when changing the band from 40 to 80 Meters, I got the screen display below


I still had control via the CMD Micro.  After restarting the application, I was able to reproduce the error, again going from 40m to 80m.

I will try it on my desktop PC later on.

Javier 

W4WHL

interesting, I will certainly check it out.  I am still installing the new version.  It wont be tonight, but I will get to the bottom of it.  I suspect they changed something.  Either way I will fix it.

I also see the image under the RF<>HP button is messed up.  I will fix that also.

William

Jeffrey Kerber, N3VE

same error hear on my PC

Jeff N3VE

I just got the cmd micro tonight and the Hercules is packed up going back.

W4WHL

ok something must have changed.  Something as simple as the order the information is received.

Does this effect operation of the CMD at all?

William

Jeffrey Kerber, N3VE

Jeffrey Kerber, N3VE

No, it still works

W4WHL

Ok.  I'm almost 100% sure I know what the issue is.  I will investigate and let everyone know.  And of course fix it

MH_Flexer

William, The nudge feature looks awesome. I am still waiting for my CMD Micro. With all the great effort you are putting in, by the time it arrives, I'll probably be on version 2.x.x.x....... Kudos! Duane

W4WHL

Ok guys, I need help.  I can not seem to reproduce the error yall are having.  Can you please give me the exact steps?  Please include any info such as how many slices open, frequencies, mode, etc. 

Thanks

William

W4WHL

I can't seem to reproduce this error, but based on the screen shots I think I know what it is.  Please try this revision and let me know

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ag3mhs7m0wsuiiv/CMDMicroFlex6k_v1_9c.zip?dl=0

MH_Flexer

Updated Version History

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w74424ucl9zqxzo/CMDMicroFlex6K%20Version%20Release%20Notes_9c.docx?dl=0

MH_Flexer

William,

Let me know if I miss or misrepresent anything on the Version History

Duane

DH2ID

Version 1.9c work, no problems or bugs. I like the version history!
73, Alex DH2ID

W4WHL

All found a bug in 1.9c, a null pointer exception can be triggered under the right conditions.  Also I was reading in all available data from the radio and parsing it.  However I should have been parsing each line separately.  This may have also been the issue seen with the garbage on the screen in v1.9b.  So please give this new version a try, and report any bugs found.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8yvr8rkbhaqlq6/CMDMicroFlex6k_v1_9d.zip?dl=0

Regards,

William
W4WHL

W4WHL

On a side note.  I'm not sure if something changed in radio firmware, but I can now manipulate pan-adapter bandwidth via external program.  Who would like panadapter zoom +/- option that can be swapped with the NR/NB buttons.

DH2ID

That would be very interesting, William. I don't use panadapter zoom
often, but somertimes it would be nice to look at the bigger picture,
or waterfall in this case ;-)
I just downloaded 1.9d and will report if there are problems.
73, Alex DH2ID

My favorite bananas:

W4WHL

It may be extremely useful for the digi/cw folks.  I'll wait opinions before I commit to coding.  Its not a hard task, but don't want to waste my time unless people really want it.

Chris DL5NAM

William we want all plus 10%
Get my CMD Saturday or Tuesday and Hercules goes back to Amazon :-)

W4WHL

I need more buttons  LOL

DH2ID

Pressing a button long/short wouldn't be an option, I guess.

W4WHL

Not really, it could be done, but it would be hard

Ken - NM9P

William, I wonder about using a slider to do the zoom?  You could program a couple of reasonable limits of pan width and correlate them to the control value.  Or is the access you have one that is a simple +/- like the buttons on the SSDR interface?

BTW:  I have thought about using a timing loop to create a short/long press control button on my Hercules, but haven't had time to get to it. Almost anything is possible, if you want to spend the time to program it!

DH2ID

Ken, your idea is much better than mine! An option to use the balance (or any other) slider should be possible.

W4WHL

I finished coding the swap for NB/NR <> Pan Bandwidth.  I'm getting too quick at this.

Uploading now!  Will post link shortly



William

DH2ID

I'll try this! Another idea: Setting up one of the buttons (one seldom used, VOX?)
as a swap or function button would make it possible to give all buttons two
functions.

W4WHL

All,

I considered this, but you need to start from current bandwidth.  Using a slider would cause the screen to jump.  It's best to query the radio for current bandwidth and just add or subtract to that value.

My current test code I just uploaded works real good, and I think y'all will like it.

What would be best to use is a encoder dial.  But there is only one available on the micro.  And I think swapping out the mode button is not a good idea.  Most people will set NB/NR and leave it.  But they may change mode and bandwidth often.

If I had one more button I would do a shift function.  Maybe in a future release I will remove CWX3 and make it a shift button.  With shift pressed CWX 1-2 becomes 3-4, and NB/NB becomes bandwidth.  This is a bigger change and may add it at some point.

William

W4WHL

Here is V1.9e that adds Bandwidth controls

https://www.dropbox.com/s/riddvfddd1hmm18/CMDMicroFlex6k_v1_9e.zip?dl=0

W4WHL

great minds think alike.  I just mentioned doing this in another reply

William

Michael - N5TGL

Man, I have done myself a major disservice by not reading this thread before!  You have made some pretty incredible progress with these external controllers!  I haven't read through the whole thread yet, but had to comment and give you some kudos.

So...have you thought about using this controller?  Same company, so may not be hard to interface with?  Might be good for folks who only use one vfo primarily?  Not even sure if it'd be compatible with what you are doing.

DH2ID

Yeah, great mind...thanks, will tell my wife!