[WT-support] WtRotators and Yaesu rotator

Guido Tedeschi guidoted at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 21:04:16 CET 2014


Problem solved!
My device was sending the azimuth value follwed by CR and LF: it is 
accepted by other software but not by WtRotators, which wants only the CR.
Code changed to send only CR and now it works fine.
Thanks and 73 de Guido, ik2bcp

Il 07/11/2014 00:05, Bob Wilson, N6TV ha scritto:
> Are you using wtRotators 1.4.2?  Earlier releases didn't support COM ports
> over COM 9.
>
> Try http://download.win-test.com/wtRotators/nightly/wtRotators_dev.zip
>
> 73,
> Bob, N6TV
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Guido Tedeschi <guidoted at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I will try it, thanks.
>> 73 de Guido, ik2bcp
>>
>> Il giorno 06/nov/2014, alle ore 01:38, "Bob Wilson, N6TV" <n6tv at arrl.net>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>> I had a similar issue with wtRotators that I never figured out.  I could
>> never get the first rotator controller added to wtRotators to work.  The
>> 2nd and 3rd rotators worked fine.  Did you try defining a second rotator?
>>
>> 73,
>> Bob, N6TV
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Guido Tedeschi <guidoted at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've developed a rotator interface that emulates the Yaesu proctocol
>>> (both GS232A and GS232B).
>>> It works fine with all softwares but with WtRotators no direction is
>>> shown, only ---.-
>>> The communication is fine at 4800 baud, because my interface receives
>>> correctly the L, R, A and Mxxx commands sent by WtRotators, but neither
>>> +XXX (GS232A) or AZ=XXX (GS232B) commands seem to be accepted as correct
>>> azimuth to be displayed by WtRotators.
>>> What should be the syntax of the direction data sent to WtRotators?
>>> Thanks and 73
>>> Guido, ik2bcp
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