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Using SmartSDR with FRStack3 and Touch Portal
Wayne Westfield
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I thought I would take a moment and share my adventures with using SmartSDR with FRStack3 and a program called Touch Portal.
Touch portal is similar to the Stream Deck in that there are buttons and macros or actions are performed with the button is pressed. Touch Portal however can have up to 110 buttons and unlimited pages, has the ability to run powershell scripts, http gets i.e. rest api capabilities an so on.
I have been wanting to use such a capability with a touch screen to perform actions on SmartSDR with a single tap of a button. This helped me to keep my hands off of the mouse and the touch sliders, etc. and focus on flex control and logging. I wanted to keep the main screen up top with the panadapter and waterfall and the buttons separate. (It would be nice if each of the SDR controls like Mic, EQ, filters, etc were individual pop outs and can be docked at various point on another screen that was touch capable,and when resized enlarged so that the target areas where larger. but for now they are not.)
Below is a capture of the screen layout and then view of the shack. Some of the buttons basically do a rest call while the ones for power control are calling a powershell script to add logic, i.e. put amp in standby and then tune, or preventing the RF +5 button from going too high when the amp is engaged.
I understand that this setup or the reason why may not be for everyone but works for me and may give others an idea or two.
The Shack;
Touch portal is similar to the Stream Deck in that there are buttons and macros or actions are performed with the button is pressed. Touch Portal however can have up to 110 buttons and unlimited pages, has the ability to run powershell scripts, http gets i.e. rest api capabilities an so on.
I have been wanting to use such a capability with a touch screen to perform actions on SmartSDR with a single tap of a button. This helped me to keep my hands off of the mouse and the touch sliders, etc. and focus on flex control and logging. I wanted to keep the main screen up top with the panadapter and waterfall and the buttons separate. (It would be nice if each of the SDR controls like Mic, EQ, filters, etc were individual pop outs and can be docked at various point on another screen that was touch capable,and when resized enlarged so that the target areas where larger. but for now they are not.)
Below is a capture of the screen layout and then view of the shack. Some of the buttons basically do a rest call while the ones for power control are calling a powershell script to add logic, i.e. put amp in standby and then tune, or preventing the RF +5 button from going too high when the amp is engaged.
I understand that this setup or the reason why may not be for everyone but works for me and may give others an idea or two.
The Shack;
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Can you send me a copy of your file so I can see the command structure. I am not a programmer and been playing with it for a day now trying to get a button to work0
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Joe, send me a copy also. Thanks
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Gents I will also send a copy when I get home.0
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Ina sense that streamdeck is using FRSStack which is the REST API server0
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I like how you are using your BIG touch screen Wayne ! Very clever.
I've told the TP dev team what I am using TP for. They liked it. They are working on an API and SDK for one of their upcoming releases. Probably January time frame.
I will supply my TP pages and buttons and package up my PowerShell scripts, custom button images, and other custom stuff I've writen. Most of it will work except for the webhook calls to my home automation hub. The rest of it can be easily modified to suite other needs.
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How did you set up the Voice Keyer part?
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I have to get with TP team, seems I am getting errors trying to export this page.
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Great ... Thanks Joe ... Looking forward to it0
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Thanks Joe that will help a lot with getting me started, just downloaded the app and will have a play with it later today.
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Hi Steve,
Right now that is not possible, there is no means to get the results of an API and modify the buttons accordingly. Then the next problem is getting that to refresh on some schedule, it will not be possible to get it live as there is not a way to subscribed to changes.
These are things that would be better done writing an app to perform and recreating the screens in it. Something I am looking at myself.
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That is odd because it works in Streamdeck. That must be because of the Slicemaster App that runs it correct??0
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Has anyone been successful at zooming in and out on a panadapter? If so, could you please share how you did it? Thanks!0
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I have managed to use the FRStacks hotkeys editor to define hotkeys to zoom in and out of the panadapter. Touch Portal buttons then provide the "keypress" which zooms in and out. It works really great! However, I would also like to try and do it via the http calls to the api. I can't get it to work, and sure I am overlooking something basic. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!0
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Hi Joel,
With your SDR running, FRSTack also running open up a web browser and copy the above line in to the address bar and hit enter you should get a response, if not try another command and if that does not work, it is not going to be an issue with TouchPorttal. My radio is off due to pending storms right now so I cannot check and see if there was anything in the settings for FRStack to turn on the Rest API.
Good luck
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Well, I just figured out what I was doing wrong. I am still on FlexSDR 2.4.9, so using FRStack ver 2.4 instead of FRStack3. How embarrassing...sorry for taking up the bandwidth. On the bright side, I am now looking forward to upgrading! Thanks for trying to help. 730
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