Re: TLF and Hamlib 4 - things to look for

[Drew Arnett]

Dumb question:  Can some of this be avoided by running rigctld and
then pointing tlf to the daemon?  They didn't change the network
protocol for rigctld, did they?

Best regards,

Drew
n7da

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:48 AM Thomas Beierlein <tb@hs-mittweida.de> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> if you want to play with the new Hamlib 4 release candidates for
> TLF there are some points to remember:
>
> 1. Hamlib 4 has changed the scheme for rig numbers to make room for more
>   new rigs. Please have a look with 'rigctl -l', find your new rig
>   number and adapt logcfg.dat accordingly.
>
> 2. IMPORTANT! Hamlib 4 has a different program API than the versions
>   before. So any time you switch from Hamlib 3 to 4 (or maybe back) you
>   have to recompile TLF to adapt to the other API.
>
> Afterwards TLF should be able to work with your rig as before.
>
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
>
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> "Do what is needful!"
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