Software Lab

Software experiments. Mostly open source.

Gpredict 0.6 for Mac OS X

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Got a cool email few days ago telling me that gpredict 0.6 is available for Mac OS X. Both building instructions as well as ready made packages are available here from the Huntsville Mac User Group. Thanks to Marius Schamschula for doing the good work!

Gpredict 0.6 finally out!

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Well, it seems that I have finally managed to release the first official version of Gpredict that uses Gtk+ 2. It was about time since the old Gtk+/Gnome 1 version was getting impossible to maintain, and it was included in both Debian and FreeBSD.

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Grig 0.7 Fails to Install

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Ten days have passed since the release of grig 0.7 and I have not received any bug reports until today. Berndt, one of the BSD guys, has discovered that grig is not installable because $(DESTDIR)/share/grig is not created prior to attemting to copy files into the directory. Fortunately, this stuff is done as one of the last things during install, so the installation will work and only the README, ChangeLog and similar files will be missing. I fired up my laptop and could confirm the same behaviour on Suse Linux.

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Grig Goes 0.7

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Two weeks ago I had a correspondence with Richard VK1RJ concerning some problems with the controlling the TenTec Pegasus. After examining the debug output it turned out that the hamlib backend was working all right but it didn’t set any initial values for the AF and RF levels leaving them at the default minimum level.

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Grig Hits 0.6.0!

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In the meantime I went on hacking on grig. Besides fixing the bugs mentioned last week I managed to finish the save/restore rig state functions. Currently, the state can only be loaded at runtime but I intend to add the possibility of loading .rig files from the command line as well. Furthermore, I have done … Read more

Grig Bug Hunt Night

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Phew… what a rush! I found and fixed bug after bug after bug after bug… the worst ones were in the rig-daemon, where the read values were overwritten by the last set values every time the specific set command was executed. This was the case for PTT, POWER and FREQ, and so the old display flicker problem has been solved, too. Cool

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hamlib/ft817.c: Power Levels

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I’ve decided to look at the FT-817 backend tonight. There are some TODOs concerning the check of the TX level readings. I couldn’t do them before because I had only batteries to power the FT-817, thus tuning with 5W wasn’t really possible.

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