Hamlib 1.2.5 released

Good news everyone!

Hamlib-1.2.5 has been released.

Hamlib provides a unified environment for the development of radio and rotator control applications. Release 1.2.5 includes many improvements since last official version.

Check it out at http://hamlib.org !

New in 1.2.5:
* frontend API: support for clonable rigs
- rigmem: CSV format change
- rigctl: new send_cmd for protocol debugging purpose
- easy USB devices support
* new models: AR8600, AR2700, DWT (DLL based under Windows, libusb based under other OS, need test)
* fixes: big AOR update, AR7030, Orion, NRD-545, RX-320,

	 FT-817, FT-990, TS-2000, Easycomm 

* port: BSD fix of parallel port support

Download pages are accessible at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib
i386 rpms, .deb and Win32 DLL's coming soon.

Please, test it out and report to [email protected] Developers are also invited to join the Hamlib team by subscribing to this mailing list. If your favorite rig is not in the supported list, feel free to ask.

Many thanks to all the developers and testers who participated in this release. They are listed in the AUTHORS file.

Have fun and let us know!

73's de Stephane - F8CFE / the Hamlib team

Thanks so much for yours and others hard work Stephane, I wish I was a programmer and could actually do something with Hamlib, but since I am just a Linux user, and still have not figured out how to send commands to my radio's (FT100d and FT847) using minicom, I am not able to utilize them (hamlib)...

But then again, I may be missing something, and just have not spent enough time on this, but what I would like is to remotely control my radio's with a graphical interface (ncurses) and have a PTT button on the screen and running some sort of VOIP software so I can remotely control and talk through my desktop pc via 802.11x to my radio remotely located at a location in an area where I can have large antenna's .

But then again, I guess I just need to spend more time on it, I suppose all the tools are there, I just need to learn how to use them...

Any pointers on tools that may allow me to fulfill my dream?

Oh and they have to be Linux tools, not Microsoft ones...

tia for any input!
Doug
N7BFS