Re: winkeyer daeon

[Gary Grebus]

On 5/26/22 18:00, Ed wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2022 17:06:02 -0400
> Gary Grebus <glg@grebus.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/26/22 15:21, Ed wrote:
> > > /var/log no winkeyer daemon shown. How to start ?
> > >    
> >
> > I don't exactly understand what you're seeing.  Is that a message you
> > see in /var/log?
> >
> > There are probably multiple ways to do this, but I use cwdaemon.
> >
> > $ sudo apt install cwdaemon
> >
> > On my IC-7300, I set:
> >
> > USB Keying (CW)    to  DTR
> >
> > In logcfg.dat:
> >
> > NETKEYER
> > NETKEYERPORT=6789       # The defaults
> > NETKEYERHOST=127.0.0.1
> >
> > You have to start cwdaemon manually before running tlf. I have a 3
> > line "start" script:
> >
> > killall -w -v cwdaemon
> > cwdaemon -d ttyUSBx -x n
> > tlf
> >
> >
> > where ttyUSBx is the IC-7300 USB serial port (same as you use for rig
> > control).
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >         Gary, K8LT
>
> Since I suck at scipts, do you mind sharing ?

Just exactly those three lines:

killall -w -v cwdaemon
cwdaemon -d ttyUSBx -x n
tlf


ttyUSBx is your USB device, without the "/dev" string e.g. ttyUSB0
tlf is whatever command you normally use to run tlf.

Put those three lines in a file e.g. called "start"

$chmod u+x start  # to make it executable
./start   # to start the CW daemon and tlf.

I'm don't have a winkeyer, so I can't help with that setup.  There is 
probably an advantage to offloading the CW generation to the keyer.  I 
liked the idea of doing it all with just the computer and the single USB 
connection to the IC-7300.

73,
        Gary, K8LT