Rig Remote, a brief description.

Rig-Remote is a tool that tries to provide some additional features to existing SDR software or rigs. Rig-Remote relies on the RigCTL protocol over TCP/IP (telnet). Rig-Remote connects to a receiver (SDR or "real" rig with rigctld) using Telnet protocol. It sends RigCTL commands for performing remote control of the receiver. If your rig is able to understand RigCTL commands, then you can control it with Rig-remote.

Some sample feature Rig-remote provides are:

• scanning of bookmarks or frequencies
• bookmarking
• enable/disable recording
• enable/disable streaming
• ...and many more

Check the wiki here on GitHub (https://github.com/Marzona/rig-remote/wiki) for more information on how Rig-remote works, there is a user guide too...

Check the issues and milestones to see what's we are working on

Feel free to create issues for bugs, feature request or to provide us suggestions, I'll classify them accordingly.

Do you want to work on this software? YAY! You're more than welcome! In the wiki there is the link to the mailing list, subscribe and ping, there is a lot of work for everybody!

rig-remote Version 2

Added Features

• Threaded scanning of bookmarks or frequency blocks, in "police scanner" fashion.
• Selectable infinite or limited passes.
• Selectable fixed pause on signal detection, or "wait on signal", where the scan will pause on a detected signal until the frequency is clear for a specified time.
• Lockout of selected bookmarks.
• Selectable logging of scanning activity to a file.
• On-the-fly updates of scanning parameters during active scan operation.
• Additional user input validation checks and validation of config and bookmark files.

TODOs/desired enhancements are listed in the issues section. If you find any problem feel free to create an issue, the issue will be addressed as soon as possible.

Version 1

Features/changes

• small ui redesign
• Bookmark frequencies and modes
• monitor bookmarks and frequency range
• trigger recording, autobookmarks, streaming for the detected signals
• Create bookmarks from the current rig frequency and mode
• Restore rig frequency and mode (bookmark double-click)
• Keep window always on top
• Auto save configuration on exit
• scan for activity between bookmarks
• scan for activity in a frequency range
• auto bookmark frequencies that are discovered as active

Suggestions are welcome!

Requirements

• Gqrx 2.3 (or higher), or any other software that offers rigctl support.

Usage

You just need to download and run rig-remote.py.

For instance, using Linux / Mac OS X, you may do:

bash

$ git clone https://github.com/marzona/rig-remote.git

$ cd rig-remote

$ python ./rig-remote.py

If you are using Windows you just need to double-click the ```rig-remote.py``` file (as the  ```.py``` file type is most likely already bound with ```python``` executable). If you want to get rid of the anoying command-line that is always running in background you may rename ```rig-remote.py``` to ```rig-remote.pyw``` and Windows will use the ```pythonw``` executable instead (which does not need the command-line).

This software consists of two files and two folder:
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- rig-remote.py
- rig-bookmarks.csv (the bookmark database)
- modules: python modules
- tests: unit tests

The file ```rig-bookmarks.csv``` consists on a standard comma-separated values file. For reference, the following example file is provided:

79200000,FM,Voice

80425000,FM,Data

82275000,FM,Taxi

97400000,WFM_ST,Radio

118100000,AM,Airport

124150000,AM,Weather

137500000,FM,NOAA

144800000,FM,APRS

162000000,FM,Navy

162025000,FM,Navy Data

165000000,FM,Taxi

442036000,FM,Digital

1090000000,FM,ADBS