Android App

W4WHL

Not yet. The app has limited functionality. I still have a lot of work to do on the controls. While the waterfall works great, I still need to recreate the controls to operate it. William

Steve-N5AC

At this point it's almost certain that we will be including a K1EL Winkeyer in Maestro, FYI.  

Your control looks cool, Enzo -- I'd love to see a video of it in action!

Bob G W1GLV

Thanks for the update. You're doing a good job.

W4WHL

I implemented swipe tuning.  I have to fine tune it, but its a successful test.  Sorry about the terrible video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj5-xgWNStA

James Whiteway

William, can you zoom the display with gestures too?
james
WD5GWY
 

Ken - NM9P

Looking good! A few performance ideas you probably have already thought of.... Touch and swipe = move the panadapter. Double tap = touch-tune slice to this frequency. Touch, hold, and swipe = move slice to this frequency and slide frequency with finger movement. Pinch or spread = zoom adjustment. Single tap = toggle swipe mode between shift frequency and shift panadapter. Just a few possibilities.

W4WHL

James yes, pinch zoom is working.

Ken here is my plan

The touch functions differently on the panadapter then the waterfall.  I did this so I wouldn't need any toggles.

1.  Pinch/spread in the panadapter area unzoom/zoom.  (working)
2.  Swiping in the panadapter area shifts the panfall left right (not implemented yet)
3.  swipe in waterfall area shifts frequency.  (working)
4.  Snap tuning (working for 250hz, more steps eventually)
5.  Panfall max/min dbm adjustment, works like gain/blacklevel (working)

And the list goes on forever LOL

For #2 I need to make some changes to how I draw the screen.

All of this is just testing and getting a foundation.  As I said earlier, I will be redoing the UI completely.  I'm just testing snippets of code that will go into the final product.

While DAX is working great, its a constant 1.3mbps stream.  For testing I turned on DAX on the PC, and DAX on the android.  For some reason the PC has a much larger lag than the android.  I would have expected the opposite, but Its a good thing I guess.  But I really need to get OPUS figured out before I go much further.  I could play with DAX TX, which shouldn't be too hard.  But I would rather focus that time on OPUS.

The more I progress, the more I realize I need to do  

W4WHL

Running on a galaxy s5 phone


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDNiN8N4kc

Steve-N5AC

Love it!

W4WHL

Thanks Steve!  Its been a fun project.  But so much to do.  So little time!

W5XZ - dan

too cool, william!  sign me up !!

W4WHL

Don't get too exited, its far from useable. Currently there is no band switching, actually no adjustments of any kind LOL.  Its just a waterfall with audio, hard coded to 20m USB.  But the controls will be added in time.  I'm designing a new tabbed UI so I can add in the controls.  But my focus is on getting OPUS audio/TX working first.

Walt - KZ1F

How many activities/fragments are you up to now? Did you not get the email I sent?

W5XZ - dan

will my at&t S-5 running Lollipop 5.0 need root privileges william?

GREAT STUFF!
 

W4WHL

Walt,  no I didnt get your email.  Try again

lee.hemmingsen@gmail.com

Dan,  No no root required

William

rfoust

Very cool - this is the same phone I have.

Walt - KZ1F

There was an interesting article in the NYT the other day in their technology section. What was interesting was the article, which was written by an Apple fanboy, rather the comments, which largely called him out for being a well known Apple fanboy. They did mention that the nice thing about Android was, aside from being free, did not require rooting or otherwise jailbreaking.

GI4FZD

Maybe we will have an iphone7 running on android..just like we have osX running on intel cpus now..Ha!!
cheers
Paul

Walt - KZ1F

I don't know why Apple dropped PowerPC, I thought that had loads of promise over what Intel and AMD were doing. I remember at the time people were shocked Apple dumped IBM in favor of Intel.

GI4FZD

I remember it well too!
cheers
Paul

Walt - KZ1F

William, sent it twice now.

W4WHL

Got it this time

Bob - W7KWS -

William, I'd really enjoy testing on a Note 3, if you are ready for feedback yet. Thanks, Bob@w7kws.com

IW7DMH, Enzo

Hello, it is a great idea a K1EL keyer inside Maestro!
Don't like to take the scene to William's masterpiece but here is my control at work during a dx-pedition shoot. It seems smooth and reliable and meters are simply fabulous.

73'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTA3E0qdD0I

Ken - NM9P

Good ideas, William. 
Are you going to allow changing the proportion of pan vs. waterfall?  My preference is to have about a 50/50 split on SSB because I like to zoom in and watch people's voice patterns.  (I'm weird that way).  In any case, the display is looking very nice!  As I have said before, you have taken this programming way past anything I have ever done.  I need to get back to my MIDI controller project soon.  But I need to finish my tower project first!

Keep up the good work.  If it gets any better, I may have to look for an android tablet!  I already have an iPad Air.  (I don't know if I can sneak another tablet past my XYL!)


Ken - NM9P

DH2ID

Ken, I own a Galaxy Tab S (SM-T800), which was a present by my wife Beatriz DD5JZ.... ;-)

M0GVZ

Hi William. I've been following this with great interest. The Panfall 6 video certainly looked like the kind of layout I would expect on a tablet version, possibly with the ability to switch to a Panfall 7 type based layout with some of the main controls down one side.

From what I can see it looks like it is reaching quite a complete application and certainly the Panfall 6 with DAX working would be something I would be well and truly willing to pay for. 

Projects like this always make me wish I'd chosen the software rather than hardware path with computers many years ago when I was faced with that particular fork in the road.

Thank you for all the work you're doing on this. 

W4WHL

Thanks for the kind words.  While Dax works well, it suffers from the issues DAX had with SSDR 1.38, periodic choppy audio.  On a fast network this is very minimal, but I would like to get the OPUS remote audio working instead.

This app will most likely be fairly basic, as in a single slice, single panadapter, and phone only.  But that could change with time.  The main thing is "time", I just dont have any LOL

William

W4WHL

Ken,

I have not even thought about that.  Currently I have it hard coded at 30/70.  But I'm sure I could make it variable.

William.


Bob - W7KWS -

Hi William,

My experience with VOIP on cellular networks is mixed depending on ping times so you might want to account for this as you work on Opus. A standard phone call to my rig works best from my AT&T cell phone as they have optimized this channel for voice & use the AMR codec which isn't too bad when faced with a noisy channel. CDMA (Verizon) works very poorly in the face of noise.

As for the data channel & VOIP, Verizon LTE is quite good at 30 to 60 msec. Ping times around my area. AT&T is OK @ 60+ msec. Cricket, which is an AT&T owned MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) on the same towers runs their data through one of several proxies as do most other MVNOs such as Straight Talk. I've seen ping times all over the place but usually in excess of 200 msec. At these delay times most SIP clients I've used won't register or, if they do, the connection is unstable. RemoteRig is useless on Straight Talk but very reliable on Verizon. Both RemoteRig & half a dozen SIP clients I've experimented with offer a variety of codec choices. I've tried them all. My favorite is G711u which is toll quality & pretty much lossless. It uses around 80 kbits/Sec.

By the way, I too will gladly purchase a copy of what you have achieved. I look forward to seeing it in the Play Store as soon as you are ready. You have certainly made a phenomenal start.

I love the CMD Micro & if this works as well, you can't miss.

Best regards,

Bob, W7KWS