Author : Alan Hawrylyshen (K2ACK)
This script is designed to be called from an fldigi macro. It will open a new QSO log in Aether.
This script can be called from fldigi on a Mac platform using a macro button.
Note - this script is written in Python, a powerful scripting language that is installed on every Mac. You don't need to edit the script or understand Python to make this work for you.
Here is the macro text I use in the fldigi macro.:
<EXEC>$HOME/.fldigi/scripts/fldigi-aether-logger.py & </EXEC>
The above macro can be directly copied into your Log QSO Macro definition window in fldigi.
- v0.5:
- Updated to support a '--no-xxxx' argument which will skip logging
any FLDIGI environment variables that match the xxxx part of the arg (case insensitive)
- v0.4 :
- Updated to correct error rounding frequencies.
- v0.3:
- General improvements.
- --no-launch:
- Do not start Aether from the script - assume it is already running.
- --test:
- Use internal test data to validate the script from the command line.
- --launch:
- Force Aether to launch - default behavior.
- --debug:
- Print out key information of script execution on stdout, will appear in fldigi window.
- --no-xxxxx:
Skip logging any environment variable that matches xxxxx. (Case insensitive). Can be used (for example) to skip recording the frequency by using:
fldigi-aether-logger.py --no-freq
This presumes that this script is called fldigi-aether-logger.py AND That this script is in $HOME/.fldigi/scripts with the execute bit set.
chmod 755 $HOME/.fldigi/scripts/fldigi-aether-logger.py
for more:
man chmod
If you run this with --debug (modify the macro), you should see useful debugging info in the transmit window.
If you run this from the command line to test, you can run with --test and --debug to use the built in test data. You should see an RTTY log entry created for W1AX.
This is a LONG way from complete, but it is working for now.
Best, 73 Alan K2ACK