0003321: Consider adding support to Rig Control to connect to radios via network interface

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003321	3 - Current Dev List	Enhancement	public	2019-05-29 11:06	2019-05-29 11:06

Reporter	K7ZCZ	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
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Summary	0003321: Consider adding support to Rig Control to connect to radios via network interface
Description	Most new, high-end radios support a network interface and can accept control commands over TCP/IP. (For example: Icom IC-7610, IC-9700; Kenwood TS-890; Yaesu FT-101D.) Users will find this interface faster, and probably easier to configure and manage than the traditional serial-over-USB mechanisms available today. We should consider adding support to Rig Control to connect to radios over their network interface. This is a substantial enhancement which should be broken into smaller pieces and managed; probably a dozen or so work items. The connect dialog should change, and persistence of network-based settings should be implemented in a way similar to the settings we've got for COM ports now. We'll need to do significant work to the guts of the Rig Control app to abstract communications apart from the logic in the code so that any code working the radio just communicates and isn't concerned with the mechanism of that communication.
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Module	Rig Control
Sub-Module	Radio Support
Testing	Not Started