RFC - Project Direction

[ben-kuhn]

Thanks @d3cker for getting the project this far. It sounds like you want to focus your efforts on the head -> base protocol which is great. In the meantime, where do you see this project going? Do you see a full-fledged distro full of common ham apps? Do you see a more basic platform for users to customize? Or, do you see this as more of a platform for building something else?

No matter what, there is a long list of improvements to explore, I'm just wondering where you see things going so we can focus on going in that direction.

[d3cker]

I would like to see WSJT-X (it was my main goal), Fldigi and other stuff running on it. I don't want to struggle with RF over audio cable anymore ;) But this requires some CAT functionality. Using native app only to support CAT over /dev/ttyS1 seems to be not very effiecent - i think x6100 armbian does it this way. That's why I focus on head-body protocol right now. As for now I managed to run script from here and control volume of main unit. It looks very promising. Also I have a strong feeling that Xiegu abandoned this platform so I do not expect to see updated gspc_app_v1 with support for latest G90 firmware. We will probable have to write our own one:) I see anyone to particpate in this project. Developers, OS engineers, testers and regular users, even tech writers to make things keep clean and up to IT standards :) In the end, it would be great just to release fully working HAM related OS for this device. I'm really happy to see you contributing here <3

[d3cker]

@ben-kuhn You know what? Maybe we should establish more interactive way of communication. Back in the days I would create an irc channel but now it seems to be out of fassion (or just not very popular). Maybe let's try with discord: https://discord.gg/TTKVTH8U

[ben-kuhn]

@d3cker Good deal. I have a few ideas for general interfacing but didn't want to overstep.

I like the idea of discord but unfortunately I was occupied by family commitments and by the time I tried the link it had expired. If you have a chance to send another I'll be quicker with it :-)

[mdubinko]

Do you consider the G90 core part of this project/direction? (Asking as a X5105-only user, a rare breed, I know)

Wow, X5105! That would be great to support as much hardware as possible. I just looked at the docs and I've got enlightened! This is the reason the app creates /dev/ttyUSB0 :D It uses serial for communication with X5105. I couldn't figure out why app is locking it once present. It should be much easier with X5105 as it probably uses pure CAT.

[d3cker]

@d3cker Good deal. I have a few ideas for general interfacing but didn't want to overstep.

I like the idea of discord but unfortunately I was occupied by family commitments and by the time I tried the link it had expired. If you have a chance to send another I'll be quicker with it :-)

I think the link is static and still valid: https://discord.gg/TTKVTH8U I can join with it and every time I try to generate one in discord website it looks the same. Please try again?

[d3cker]

@mdubinko @ben-kuhn To make things up to standards, I set up master branch as protected. Any work should be done on feature branches and a pull request is required before merge. Reach me out if in case of doubts.

[d3cker]

Just to let you know that there is still work in progress... and finally I made some progress :) I just finished first working version of protocol sniffer for GSOC-G90 communication. You can get it here (devel branch): https://github.com/d3cker/g90puhuApp
Sniffer in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-x0HpGmOv8