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Great idea Michael. On my side I'm already using Node Red for:
- Control DCU2 Rotator? - Monitor certain Flex 6300 info - Control DLI Webswitch - Monitor weather at shack and trigger email for Thunder and Rain - Send frequency info to Green Heron Select 8 Antenna Switch and HF Auto Tuner - Monitor internet and connections (separate tab on dashboard) - Complete Weather and Forecast (separate tab on dashboard)? And working on: - Turn off DLI Switch on Thunder reports from weather flow (stuck on it right now) - Temperature sensors for shack (not purchased yet) - Expand radio information and control flows - Incorporate fans at shack (not purchased yet) If I can help anyone on anything please let me know. Santiago ______________ 73 de Santiago HI8SMX web:? YouTube: HI8SMX? Twitter: @hi8smx Instagram: hi8smx |
开云体育Here is my equipment list and screen shots. Link to all flows: ?? Alan WA9WUD ================================== Equipment Controlled - Flex 6600 - Palstar HF Auto Tuner - Palstar LA1K Amp - Stepp IR Big IR Vertical Antenna - Green Heron Az/El Rotor via PST Rotor - Various Satellite Antenna Controls With Flex TX Band Input - Pre-Amp Sequencer, 2M and 70CM - Left / Right Polorization, 2M and 70CM - 1296 MHZ / 432 MHZ Tx Antenna Switching based on Flex TX Selection - 2M Antenna Vertical / Yagi Switching - Sensors - Voltage; INA219? - Current; Electronics-Salon AC/DC Current Sensor Module - Temperature; DS18B-20 - Switches - Digital Logic DIN Relay - Electronics Salon DIN Rail Mount 8 SPDT IoT Power Relay Module for Raspberry Pi ? - Interlocks - Open PTT to Plaster Amp when “Tuning” - Inhibit PTT to Palstar Amp if Flex Power is Set > 60 watts - Return rotor mode to “Manual” from “Track” after 15 minutes - Home SteppIR when Flex Remote “off” - Open and Ground HF antenna when Flex Remote “off” - Switch off 2M or 70CM preamp if TX band on Flex selected - Remote Flex “off” and Home SteppIR if Thunder reported - Specific Fan “On” based on equipment TX status - Fans “Off” after run time - Shutdown station if bus volts drop to 12.5V, Flex, Raspberry? -Raspberry Pis and all LAN components??remains powered on - Remove all DC Power if volts drop to 11.5V. - Return DC Power when volts return to 12.0 V. - various e-mail notifications - high cabinet temperature - low voltage - Thunder Alan WA9WUD |
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On Jul 9, 2020, at 6:54 AM, Alan Blind <a.alan.blind@...> wrote:
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开云体育I would suggest creating a folder in the foles section with your callsign then upload your files to that folder. ? 73 Dave wo2x ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Andrew Mitchell ? Hi Doug, |
开云体育Hi Kevin ? Welcome aboard! I just built a Pi from scratch loading the software. Took just over an hour but I was taking notes along the way to make a how-to guide. I have very rough notes if you are interested. Has hyperlinks to the various software. ? Dave wo2x ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kevin Paus
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 7:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nodered-hamradio] introductions ? ?I am just getting started with Node Red. ?Haven’t put anything together yet but this seems like the right place to be!? ? Kevin? w4kjp
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开云体育Thanks for the kind comments. ?What you see is after one year of working with Node-Red and 11/2 years of Flex 6600 ownership.Without the help of the Flex and “Remote Operations” community, I would not have been able to design the more complex flows…Thanks to Mike, Dave and Andreas. This all started with Mike’s first post on the Flex Community describing his use of Node-Red for remote operations. Below are photos of the various “ Shack” screenshots. ?I use multiplex, so all of the below are running at the same time. Alan WA9WUD The Satellite Shack: The Systems Monitor Screen: The iPad HF Radio Screen: ?(I like working HF SSB while walking around my QTH). ?I can also log all of the QSO on the iPad and use UDP broadcast to move the log entries over to HRD Logbook. ?I use my Apple iPods for audio in and out. The FT8 Screen on my Apple Laptop; |
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wow!? nice work Alan. I'm sorry I caused this.? LOL On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 8:21 AM Alan Blind <a.alan.blind@...> wrote:
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开云体育To finish the tour, here are photos of the radio hardware. ? The Flex and all its supporting hardware are located in a remote garage 300 feet from the “shack”. ?I use a fiber optic LAN connection between the house and the remote garage.Alan ============= The Garage: Top to Bottom (based on hot air rising to the top): ?Plaster LA1K, HF-Auto, Flex 6600, 1296 MHZ transporter, 2M Transverter, and 70CM Transverter. ?All enclosed in dust proof filtered air cabinet. Support Hardware: Elecraft W2 Wattmeter, SteppIR Controller, Cabinent Fan Control ,? DX Engineering Receive Antenna Controller, Green Heron Rotor Control, SMORF Antenna Analyzer, various serial to IP converters below. The “Wall” behind the server cabinets. ?Power control on top, antenna control ?and ground bus on the bottom, UPS 12 battery on the floor: |
开云体育Santiago You asked about where the Band Data comes from. I derived band data from the Flex Server "BCD" USB cable output. ? Here is a link to the USB Cable Usage Guide, from Flex; You can find my flow for the band decoder on my ?github in the?“Sub-Flows” folder, "Satellite Board” flow file. I connected each output ?wire ?(Bit) of the USB cable to a unique GPIO pin on the Raspberry Pi. ? I then use this table to build a ?“decoder” using Boolen logic gates (reverse truth table) for each band. ? Here is a map from the FTDI USB cable specification showing Bit versus wire color: Finally, I got to use something I learned 50 years ago in college, building Boolean equations from?truth tables. ?The truth table is ?provided in the Flex USB Cable User Guide. Here is a screenshot of the flow, with the 40M segment selected. ?It is a simple matter of using “AND” logic on the " X” "OR" "X-Not” pins. ?(X=1, X-Not=0) I then send the band data via MQTT broker ?to all the other boards that need to know what TX band is seleced on the Flex Server. Alan WA9WUD |
开云体育I get band data from the KPA1500. You can also get it when you subscribe to a client. ? Dave wo2x ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Santiago Mejia via groups.io ?
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I’ve look for band data and only found TX?frequency info but not band per se. Looking into converting freq to band if not.
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Santiago ____________ 73 de HI8SMX? hi8smx.online HI8SMX on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube On Thursday, July 9, 2020, 5:26 PM, David De Coons <RocketNJ@...> wrote:
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开云体育When you bind to a client you receive a lot more info including current band. There is a LOT of data and parsing it will be tricky.?I’d take a look at the data but doing an emergency road trip to the next state. ?Will check it tomorrow.? Dave wo2x Sent from my waxed string and tin cans.? On Jul 9, 2020, at 6:34 PM, Santiago Mejia via groups.io <hi8smx@...> wrote:
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I just found this group and look forward to participating. Here are a couple of my current node-red projects.
Antenna Switch Control, Rotor Control, S-meter. Receiver antenna preamp and switching. There are a few more applications in the works. I am going to setup up a github account to share my flows so anyone can check them out. Gary K6HN |
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