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General discussion forum / Re: Modes 6 & 7 (CAT to COM2) doesn't support all CAT commands?

« on: 2025-06-11, 17:27:01 »

The split functions not working _could_ in theory be because if I as a consumer of COM2 (on the control side / client side) ask for IF; it will pipe this command over to COM1 where COM1 will receive the `IF` command response, but this isn't routed to COM2 in my experience.

I have a setup which uses the same settings and configuration as you although at a higher baud rate. My "twin" TS-590SG is just a ESP32 but it accomplishes the same thing.

In order to reliably detect whether or not the radio is in split mode the IF command really is the only way; at least that's my experience with the protocol.
I don't know why this is the way it is but I plan on creating my own COM0 to connect on the server / radio side to see if that helps.

I realize that the "muxing" of the CAT data is a difficult thing to do well, it's a complicated thing to be able to serve different endpoints with the same data.

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General discussion forum / Audio noise (background noise?) from RRC v4

« on: 2024-12-07, 12:16:07 »

Hi, I'm struggling with some noise on the audio output from the RRC. I think it's originating from the RRC here at home, not the one connected to the radio, but not 100% sure about that.

According to Microbit Setup Manager I have:
Version: 004
Firmware: 2.95
HW: 005

At home I've tried adding optoisolators to all audio and it makes no difference. The noise is mostly only noticeably in two scenarios:

1. When the audio output level from the radio is low / or there is little audio / band noise.
2. With the radio audio level turned all the way down, there is still a slight background noise.

I've checked here locally whether or not disconnecting any of the IO makes a difference, and it does not.

In the attached recording I have added ~20dB of amplification (because the levels are quite low), the beginning of the clip is with the RRC on but with audio from the radio at 0, and then I turn off the RRC, noise level drops. There's still noise in the clip probably from the amplification.

My settings are as follows (at home):

Codec out gain: 240
Codec inp gain: 0
Codec inp HPF Hz: 163
Codec inp preamp: No (have also tried Yes, it makes no difference).

Radio side:

Codec out gain: 255
Codec inp gain: 0
Codec inp attenuation: No

P.s. I've also tested different codecs without any change (not that I was expecting any).

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General discussion forum / Re: Modes 6 & 7 (CAT to COM2) doesn't support all CAT commands?

« on: 2023-11-23, 21:00:13 »

Hi

When transferring kenwood CAT commands Remoterig does not interpret the messages  it just use the ; (semicolon) which indicates the end of message to initiate transmission of a packet

73 de mike

Mike, Are you sure about this? I'm not seeing the same behavior between COM1 and COM2 on the RRC. For example, only the "native" CAT COM port will reply to CAT command inquiries such as "IF;" whereas the other COM port does not, even though it does provide CAT data, it doesn't provide the same. Another example is the S Meter or SWR meter values. I.e. it seems like RRC is doing some filtering, or at least how the "sharing" / interlacing of the CAT data between COM ports remotely (radio side) and locally (client side) seems to work. From what I can tell it only supports a subset of the Kenwood protocol. I've tried a multitude of settings as well and I don't think it's my configuration that's affecting this.

The thing is I would like to be able to output CAT data on COM 0 if possible (easy access to TTL) but here as well I only have a subset of CAT data available, probably due to how the "COM2 to COM1" functionality works?

If I were to make my own RJ12 6P6C cable and hook that up to a RS232 to TTL converter and feed the server (radio) side CAT data through COM0 I guess I could expect this through COM0 at the client (local) side as well?

I need to be able to access the CAT data through TTL while still having (ideally) access to CAT over USB locally at the client side.

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General discussion forum / Modes 6 & 7 (CAT to COM2) doesn't support all CAT commands?

« on: 2023-11-05, 10:08:28 »

Hi, I have a TS-590SG connected to my RRC's and have set up COM1 to "Mode-7, CAT to COM2 (remote)". Where COM0 is set to "logical parallel".

All of the CAT data on COM1 is working and is as expected, however on COM2 (or COM0 for that matter). It seems only a subset of CAT commands are available through COM2, or COM0 for that matter. The RRC probably does some smart interleaving of the data here but not having access to commands such as: SM or RM (S meter or SWR meter values), or IF, which first of all doesn't make it very compatible with other CAT software with regards to CAT protocol parity.

Does anyone know if this is a feature or a bug, or am I doing it wrong?
Edit: I figured out I can change the COM settings on the radio side Mode 4 and that will give me all of the CAT inquiries to COM2.

Should the radio be connected to COM2 instead? (server side).

I found the documentation on the "Twin" setup's a bit sparse so I'm not confident I've understood it correctly.

I've been working on creating my own control interface to the TS-590SG in order to control the radio remotely with real knobs etc. I'm using COM0 at the moment to inject CAT-data to be sent from the client to the remote side, this works for the most part fairly well.

I have set up COM2 and COM1 to output over USB but inject data through the RJ11 jack (COM0), if that makes sense.

Thanks in advance,

Stian
LB1TI