Cannot get Bandmaster working with WFView

Usage Questions
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Latest WFView 23 March 2023. IC-705.

Connection to radio works fine.

WSJT-X works fine usingHamlib NET rigctl 127.0.0.1:4533
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I have created a virtual serial port pair 11/12. I chose Virtual Serial Port 11 in WFView, and I am selecting Virtual Serial Port 12 in Bandmaster but it keeps saying the radio is not responding.

I have tried all possible baud rates without success. I remember I had this working over the weekend but I have made so many changes and my memory is foggy. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Mark, WD4ELG

2

I am reading the details and it looks like WFView is either/or: either RigCtlD or Virtual serial port but not both. Am I reading that correctly?

And if I am reading correctly, how does Omnirig interface with the 705 if I am using Hamlib RigCtlD?

3

I’m not able to get the virtual serial port to work for rig control to an IC-9700 from WSJT-X, even if I disable rigctld. I use com0com for virtual serial port connectivity, and it works fine with my Anan-100D to WSJT-X. So I gave up and am just using rigctld and that works fine for me with the 9700.

4

Maybe Phil @phil can weigh in on this. I did not find anything helpful in the archives…

5

Hi Mark,

wfview can use all the available interfaces at once.

I’m not personally familiar with bandmaster nor the windows virtual serial port system though.

—E
de W6EL

6

Thanks, that’s good info and helps!

I was able to get everything working…operator error.

7

I have to modify my earlier statement. I’ve finally gotten to where I can control the rig via a virtual serial port from WSJT-X to Wfview. And this is working even though I also have the rigctld enabled at the same time, so I can switch back and forth in the WSJT-X configuration. The “magic” was the usual Windows technique of kicking things until they work, in particular I ended up using the setup program for the com0com virtual serial ports to reset their configuration.

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Ditto here. Kept fiddling until it worked.