[hpsdr] Tablets and Hermes

[Chris Smith]

My thanks to Chris Albertson for injecting a breath of sanity into this discussion. The noise of axes being ground was becoming deafening.

I have to admit to an overwhelming and pathological hatred of all things Microsoft but that hasn't stopped me using PSDR although it has prevented me from attempting to make any modifications to that suite.

I have previously made a plea that any future software should be truly cross-platform. Lets try and make that a goal. Please ... pretty please?!

Cheers & 73

Chris G4NUX
 
On 31 Jul 2012, at 18:14, Chris Albertson wrote:

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> If your SDR software is designed correctly then you do NOT have to choose a tablet brand.  Any of them should work.
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> The way it should work is that you select an existing communication protocol for use between the tablet's user interface and the SDR.   The advantage of "existing" is that there are already usble GUIs that run on many different devices,like tablets and phones and computers and even physical controls surfaces.   
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> One that runs already on a tablet that would work well for SDR is this one v-control-pro this runs on an Apple iPad but there are 100 others that run on "whatever".  But you can see on the linked photo how these generic controllers work.  You map the on-screen controls to software functions and the end user and move things around on the screen as he likes.   
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> The absolute wrong way to do this would be to write a special purpose SDR controler app that run on one kind of tablet only.  It would be a waste of time given that dozens of good general purpose controllers already exist.
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> Here is a video showing this in detail.  The video shows this controller controlling a audio workstation but you can imagine how it might be used to control a radio.   The thing to remember is that the interface between the controller and the software is a well established industry standard so if you don't like iPads and v-control there are 100 others
> This video shows the "vision" of how it might work.  The SDR software would to know to talk to controllers using this MIDI protocol.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWuXs8K_ZJ8&list=PLEEC62B4F25DC38B4&index=1&feature=plpp_video
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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Tony Langdon <vk3jed at gmail.com> wrote:
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> At 05:00 AM 7/31/2012, Tim O'Rourke wrote:
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> I have this vision of using a 10 or 11 inch tablet with Hermes.
> Lots of choices out there, one is android verses windoz.
> Not an IS type on this end just an old user, wondering what others have used or plan on using?
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> I have iPads, so that's what I'd be wanting to use.
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