Yaesu G-5500 about remoterotator HOT 9 CLOSED

Hi @UW5EJA,

my apologies that it took so long to create a new release. I have fixed the windows problems - although support for WindowsXP has been removed, but it will work fine for > Windows 7. You can download the latest release from the release page.

Feel free to re-open this issue if remoteRotator doesn't work as expected.

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Hi Tobias.

Just wanted to ask you if this is possible. Thanks for the answer.
I think that the Caddy web server with authentication is an excellent solution.

With the best regards!
Victor

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Hi,
Can you give me some more background information on your setup?

• What kind of rotator Control are you using? The original Yaesu one or an Interface like EA4TX ARS?
• Can you verify with another program that the Rotator is actually Working properly on COM3?
• Is remoteRotator Able to communicate with the Rotator or does it Not work at all?
• can you paste your remoteRotator.toml Config file?

Tnx
Tobias

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Hello Tobias.

I am using "ERC-M USB and RS232" with two option: connect physical COM1 or virtual COM (COM3 - Windows 8, COM4 - Windows XP).

First, I have run "remoteRotetor server lan" in Windows XP and got an error "serial port read error (COM1)....."
Soon after that, I launched Ham Radio Deluxe, which successfully connected to COM1 and virtual too.

When I started "remoteRotator.exe web" I got another error "[ERR] mdns: Failed to bind to udp6 port [ff02::]:353: socket: Address incompatible with requested protocol"

How can I to check if there is a data exchange between remoteRotator and COMx?

Thank you!
With the best regards
Victor

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Hi Victor,

let's try to solve the easy things first:
Can you try running remoteRotator.exe web on the Windows8 machine? The mDNS library I'm using requires unfortunately a IPv6 stack, which WindowsXP probably doesn't have. Windows8 on the other hand should have an IPv6 stack build in.

wrt to the "serial port read error":
I saw on the website of the ERC that ERC supports basically 3 protocols:

• Hygain DCU-1 with extension for position-feedback
• Yaesu GS232A with extension for DUAL-Azimuth (by VE2DX)
• Yaesu GS232B with extension for DUAL-Azimuth (by VE2DX)
  Can you select the protocol in any way? GS232A/B should work with remoteRotator.

In order to communicate directly with the rotator, you can open a serial console using putty. You can find the commands for talking to the ERC (via the GS232A/B protocol) for example here.

But if other applications (like HRD or Simplesat) can talk on the same machine directly with the ERC, the problem might be somewhere in my code.

hw?

73 Tobias

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Hello Todias.

In Windows 8 was the similar error. After the launch "remote Rotator web" in the browser was only "Searching for rotators...".

I launched remoteRotator in Ubuntu 14.04 and it`s working well. Thank you!

I wrote flag "--discovery-enabled", but after running remoteRotator I saw in command line:
"discovery disabled; the HTTP server must listen on an accessible network interface"
What does it mean?

73!
Victor

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Hi Victor,

that means that you are listening on localhost only. You should listen on external network interfaces, e.g. 0.0.0.0 for all interfaces.

If you enable discovery and listen on all interfaces, then the rotator should also be detected properly on other instances.

hw?

73 Tobias

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Hi Tobias,

Thank you. When I added flag -w 0.0.0.0 I was able to connect from a local network.

Сould I specify a few IP addresses or only choose 127.0.0.1 / 0.0.0.0" ?
I read about access to remoteRotator with authentication in Wiki "Expose remoteRotator to the Internet" - This is a great feature.

73!
With the best regards
Victor

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by listening on 0.0.0.0 you are automatically listening on all interfaces. If you would like to limit it to a particular address (in the unlikely case that your computer has two network cards and is connected to two different networks), you could specify one particular interface e.g. 192.168.1.30...

Does that help?

73 Tobias

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