[Flexradio] "New architecture lands"

[Peter Spader]

Bob,

Thanks for the update.
The Flexradios and PowerSDR just keep getting better and better. Thanks to 
all the people who are making this so.

Pete (K2HGO)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob McGwier" <rwmcgwier at gmail.com>
To: <flexradio at flex-radio.biz>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 5:39 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] "New architecture lands"


> And WITHOUT a thud:
>
>
>
> Eric Wachsmann, KE5DTO, has been succesffully moving the C# hardware 
> control
> out of PowerSDR for the Flex 5000 and has successfully done the first 
> steps
> of interop and is successfully sending and acting on commands using Erlang
> to manage the remotable service and a gen_tcp behavior and using sockets.
> We are doing a major rework on the firmware that will indeed allow us
> EXTREMELY fast control of the Flex 5000 if it meets all of the promise the
> manufacturer claims it will. If so, midi will be replaced with a file
> descriptor type interface and this will run across all platforms.  Midi 
> will
> still be useful for other reasons and when jack2 comes to a release, midi
> will be easily transported via jack and netjack on linux, OS/X and 
> Windows.
>
>
>
> Bob Tracy is a man for whom my admiration grows daily.   He has a working
> browser based baby step GUI console done in GWT sending and receiving
> commands and a yaws server deliver said services.
>
>
>
>
>
> For the Flexers and DttSP readers "The new architecture is born" and 
> Brickle
> and Tracy will forever be owed our thanks.
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> Sent by Frank to DttSP
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Frank Brickle
>
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:51 AM
>
> To: dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com
>
> Subject: [dttsp-linux] Accumulating VR code in CGRAN
>
>
>
> For those of you singing along at home, the key functional components of 
> the
> VR are now in svn at https://www.cran.org. They include
>
> * the kernel executive (vrk)
>
> * the storage manager for transient and semi-persistent data (vrmeme)
>
> * the sdr-core control proxy (ducpin), to work with the new datagram
> command/update regime
>
> * the GNU Radio and/or SDR-1000 control proxy (grape) and remote executive
> (exec_server)
>
> * miscellaneous conveniences such as fast back-channel file transfer.
>
>
>
> In accord with the Open Source imperative to publish early and often, 
> these
> components are out there for examination and abuse now, without any
> guarantee beyond the claim that they all work correctly, and correctly
> together. They won't even seem very interesting until the example
> configurations are put online over the next few days.
>
>
>
> All this stuff works fine when distributed across all the machines on my 
> own
> LAN. Given proper Erlang and Python installations, it should also all work
> across any platforms (Linux, OS X, BSD, Win). Usual caveats apply 
> concerning
> DNS quirks, firewalls, etc.
>
>
>
> With these pieces in place, the final addition is the Erlang application
> configuration that starts, supervises, and stops the whole system with a
> single button push. That's the last step. Until then, to quote Legolas,
> "It's knife-work down here."
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Frank
>
> AB2KT
>
>
>
> PS If you are interested in playing with the code, you'll probably want to
> install the latest Erlang/OTP (R12B-5) and yaws releases.
>
>
>
> PPS If you're concerned with talking to vrk in the most direct way 
> possible,
> consider using curl at first rather than plugging away with a browser or
> other web framework.
>
>
>
> ARRL SDR Working Group Chair
>
> Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,
>
> NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC.
>
> "And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom
>
>
>
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