In-Shack Control of Externals by the Flex-6000 Radio?

My guess is that´s for what the USB ports in the back will be.

I've had great luck using the Moxa ethernet to serial servers  http://www.moxa.com/product/Serial_Device_Servers.htm to control amps, rotators, wattmeters and other accessories.  The Moxa Windows drivers are fantastic and bulletproof.

I've found old-school RS-232 is slightly easier to deal with for remotes than USB.  Don't worry if you need to add a small distribution Ethernet switch next to your radio.  I have four switch hops and under 1ms of round trip latency.

I think it would be very handy to have band data out of the radio. It's one of those "got to have it" kind of features. But given that the on-wire protocol is public, I think the long term answer for controlling peripheral equipment is a dedicated network-attached box. It could connect to the radio and listen for band changes, tune requests, or whatever and provide the data in whatever format you want to control peripherals. How cool would that be, right? Use something like a PI2 with like 3 dozen digital I/O lines, and you have a lot of control possibilities. I'm hoping to prototype something like this with Windows 10 on the PI2. Peter K1PGV

I would like to see this functionality also.  I am considering one of the fanless PC computers now for this purpose at my remote location.  Any update on time frame for release by Flex?