Ham Radio Rig Control using FL-RIG
Introduction
This is an experimental flow to demonstrate the use of Node-RED with the FL-RIG control client for amateur radio transceivers. This flow supports my presentation to NARC Live on Feb 8th 2023
Configuration
FL-RIG provides a server that can control the operation of many popular amateur radio rigs. The server uses XMLRPC messaging format, so the node-red-contrib-xmlrpc v 1.0.2 needs to be installed in Node-RED. FL-RIG can be run on any local network device, provided you enter the appropriate IP address when configuring the client. There appears to be a bug either in the xmlrpc node or FL-RIG that requires the frequency setting number format to include a decimal point followed by a number greater than 1. For this example, I've used 0.1. This doesn't affect the frequency setting of the rig as the decimal point is ignored.
I hope this proves useful.
Mike Richards - G4WNC
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