Re: Hamlib keying?

[Alan Dove]

Martin:

The workaround I use in Linux is to forget about connecting to 
/dev/ttyUSB0, or whatever link my computer decided to provide to the rig 
this time. Instead, I connect to 
/dev/serial/by-id/long-name-of-the-USB-device. Obviously, replace that 
last bit with the actual name you find in /dev/serial/by-id that 
identifies your rig.

I'm sure there's some more clever solution, but this has the advantage 
that it's easy to understand and always works. The same device will 
always show up under its given name in /dev/serial/by-id/...

For rig control I use Flrig, part of the Fldigi suite that can be 
installed with a simple script. Flrig always connects to the named 
serial id for my rig as above, and then I tell TLF or CQRLog or Fldigi 
to connect to that abstraction (Flrig appears as hamlib rig ID 004, I 
believe).
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-- Alan (AB1XW)

Alan Dove, Ph.D.
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