G4WNC - CAT Control using FLRIG and Yaesu FT-897
This example flow has been produced to support my RSGB Tonight@8 presentation on 5th June 2023.
The flow can be used to control any rig that's supported by FLRIG. Simply install and run FLRIG and select the target rig. FLRIG supports a very comprehensive set of commands and, when combined with Node-RED, these can be used to build a custom rig control application.
In addition to the standard Node-RED nodes, this flow uses node-red-contrib-xmlrpc and node-red-contrib-dashboard. These are available from the Node-RED site.
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