Re: pywinkeyerdaemon

[Drew Arnett]

Two issues:
1.  I expanded prosigns after inserting the +++ --- speed control
statements.  Whoops.  Fixed that.
2.  I had an echo test after host open.  Not sure why I did that,
other than I must have been in a hurry.  Haven't changed that yet, but
commenting it out in the code helped Joop during some early
troubleshooting, so I may make that change after reviewing the
winkeyer documentation.  This is likely keyer implementation specific.
(I've been testing with an hamcrafters winkeyer USB, but should dig
out my old Arduino K3NG implementation.)

I suspect between the two, Joop's problem should be fixed.  Will
continue to follow up per his test report.  I especially need to do
something about #2 above.

Besides +++ --- and a complete cwdaemon compatible prosign
implementation, I added tune capability as well to pywinkeyerdaemon,
so ALT-T works from tlf now.  Looks like tlf does a 6 second timeout
for tune, cwdaemon supports 0 to 10 seconds, and winkeyer 0 to 99.  I
guess how long is too long varies wildly depending on the situation!
:-O  :-)  ALT-T would have been great to have yesterday when I was
dealing with a fussy autotuner.

Best regards

Drew
n7da

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 4:29 AM Drew Arnett <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'll trouble shoot this with Joop off list.  Shouldn't be related to
> the type of serial port, but we will see.  First step was a better
> assertion statement that would provide the value that failed to match.
> Good sign that the code got that far before throwing an error.  Will
> be looking at K1EL docs, as that test came from there IIRC.
>
> Drew
> n7da
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 8:18 PM Joop Stakenborg
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Drew,
> >
> >
> > is pywinkerdaemon intended to work with USB ports? I get:
> >
> > $ ./pywinkeyerdaemon.py -d /dev/ttyUSB1 -p 6788
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "./pywinkeyerdaemon.py", line 310, in <module>
> >      winkeyer = Winkeyer(args.device)
> >    File "./pywinkeyerdaemon.py", line 43, in __init__
> >      self.host_open()
> >    File "./pywinkeyerdaemon.py", line 57, in host_open
> >      assert self.port.read(1).decode() == test_char
> > AssertionError
> >
> >
> > Joop PG4I
> >
> > Op 26-11-19 om 00:44 schreef Drew Arnett:
> > > Finally knocked off some todos including porting to python3.  (still
> > > runs on 2 as well)
> > >
> > > Also, finally added in message +/- controls (tested with TLF) and
> > > support for cwdaemon prosigns.  (I hadn't been using these sorts of
> > > things, so hadn't missed them personally, but they've
> > > been on the TODO list too long.)
> > >
> > > +++TEST--- doesn't work unless there's a setspeed first.  (I didn't
> > > find that function in the winkeyer interface.)  In testing, I found
> > > that tlf sends a setspeed command at startup, so no problems.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/drewarnett/pywinkeyerdaemon
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Drew
> > > n7da
> > >
> >