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Flex API utility

I thought I would share a little utility that I use when I am trying to understand an aspect of the Flex API. Top comments in the program:
/*
FlexDiscovery
Len Koppl, KDØRC
9/23/20
Visual Studio 2019 C++ console
Uses Flex API without .net or FlexLib (i.e. uses native text-based API commands) Utility to test Flex API commands and to show TCP/IP traffic from the radio.
Displays the first Flex discovery UDP packet that it finds. Other Flex UDP traffic is not read. The commented out commands are what I have been experimenting with. There are many many more that can be added here. Most are commented out so that you can focus on just what you are interested in. The main goal is to provide a way to try out commands before putting them into your
program. To get the proper parameter name (may vary slightly from the wiki...),
uncomment the appropriate subscription(s), run this program, then activate the control
in SmartSDR, or on your Maestro. The response from the radio will be displayed on
the console screen. The parameters have good instruction set reciprocity,
so this will lead you to the correct syntax. A good example is VOX. The wiki says:
C41|transmit set vox=1 It doesn't work... Run this utility with "sub tx all" uncommented and turn VOX on and off. The radio
responds with:
S1F5C6BC|transmit vox_enable=1 vox_level=68 vox_delay=16
S1F5C6BC|transmit vox_enable=0 vox_level=68 vox_delay=16 So now you can deduce that the actual command is:
C41|transmit set vox_enable=1Note that "s" and "set" are interchangable. In my commands, I always use CD instead of C
so that I get the verbose debug version of the radio responses.
*/
Extract this source file and copy it into Visual Studio (C++ console app).
Now you have an easy way to explore the Flex API.
Comments
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I found it Len! Thanks!
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Excellent! Let me know how you get along with it. I think that I may have found the problem with Flex Repeater Spots. Hopefully the testing will come back positive…
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I made some minor changes and put the source code out on GitHub. I didn't have new line chars at the end of all the commands. It worked anyway, but I think I was getting away with a bad practice. When I moved to 3.9.19, some commands quit working until I added the new line char at the end of the command, so I added it to all commands. Here is a link to the code on GitHub.
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