++++++++++++++++ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:50:28 -0100 From: "Julian (G4ILO)" To: "Elecraft List" Subject: [Elecraft] K2Net - yet another remote K2 control program There has been some discussion of K2 remote control software here recently, so I thought I'd upload for your amusement K2Net version 0.2, a suite of programs consisting of a client and a server to allow you to control your K2 remotely via a network. You'll find a fuller description of the software, including my reasons for writing it and my ultimate objectives for it, on my web site. As I've spent quite a lot of time getting to where I am so far, I thought I'd take a break from it, upload the current build and see what people think. K2Net has been written using Delphi 6, so it runs on Microsoft Windows. I'm using XP, so that's what it has been tested on. A lot of effort has been spent making the user interface as much like a real K2 as possible. The server supports a command line interface that can be used from a Telnet client. Status information from the K2 is decoded and buffered by the server so you only get told about what has changed, to save network traffic and improve latency. It would be relatively easy to write a client that ran on a different kind of computer, such as a hand-held, as long as the server runs on a PC. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with Delphi coding experience who would be interested in adding some of the missing functionality; however, the need to use a commercial component (when I can afford it!) in order to add an audio streaming capability makes it impractical to make this an open-source project. In the meantime, there's a link on my site showing where you can get the demos for the audio streaming component, which can be used separately to provide the two-way audio link. 73, -- Julian, G4ILO. (RSGB, ARRL, G-QRP, K2 #392) G4ILO's Shack: http://www.qsl.net/g4ilo (hopefully all the hits I'm going to get won't get me thrown off qsl.net!) +++++++++++++ Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:22:45 -0100 From: "Julian (G4ILO)" Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2Net - yet another remote K2 control program To: Brendan Minish , "Elecraft List" I just checked the link, the spec looks good but the code is all written in C and requires Visual C++ to compile it. Not much use to someone who only has Delphi and doesn't understand C. But if anyone who understands C would like to make a DLL out of it, I'll be happy to use it. :-) 73, -- Julian, G4ILO. (RSGB, ARRL, G-QRP, K2 #392) G4ILO's Shack: http://www.qsl.net/g4ilo ==== Original message ==== > At 14:50 30/04/2003 -0100, Julian (G4ILO) wrote: > > > > however, > >the need to use a commercial component (when I can afford it!) in order > to > >add an audio streaming capability > > > Why not base it around Speek freely which I believe is open source and > is > low latency enough (being a telephony app) to handle radio audio in real > time > http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/windows/ > > Works well over my network here. > > 73 > Brendan EI6IZ +++++++++++++++ From: "Dave" To: Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Announcement: K2Net v0.3 Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:39:41 +0100 Further to Julian's announcement yesterday, I've been using his K2 remote software across my home network and it works incredibly well. There was a minor bug with some Morse characters, but that is now fixed in version 0.31. Julian reported that only one other user had given him feedback... so if you have a home network and want to give a whole new meaning to "arm chair copy" give it a try. It's worth it for the K2 front panel display on your remote PC! BTW, I'm running it with Windows 95, 486 DX66 and 8 MB of RAM on one PC and XP on the other, so it seems to work on almost any recent version of Windows. The software can be found on Julian's site: http://www.qsl.net/g4ilo 73's Dave, G4AON K2 #1892 ++++++++++++++++