Web Page to Set Call

K8TCS

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Nov 7, 2024, 10:09:35 AM11/7/24

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This may be slightly out of scope for this group, but hoping someone has already done this and can share.

I have a PAT installation in a radio room, several people use it. Right now we have to remember to log on to the PI and change our call signs in config.json. We have the organization call as the primary, and we set our individual calls as auxiliary.

Was just wondering if someone has already created a simple webpage with CGI to read config.json, display the call signs and provide a text box to either change to add a value.

Thanks in Advance

-Tad Smedes

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Joel Black

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Nov 7, 2024, 10:22:57 AM11/7/24

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Tad,

I run Pat on a Mac and I have done something similar between my amateur call and my SHARES call.

My coding comes from Google searches and ChatGPT. I am *NOT* a coder.

In a nutshell, I created w4jbb.json and nnb4jb.json. Their root is the config.json but then I modified each with the correct call and service code and saved appropriately. I have created scripts that will copy w4jbb.json to config.json for Amateur Winlink and then another script to copy nnb4jb.json to config.json for SHARES Winlink.

I have tried to make AppleScript create a dialog box based on what call I want but I couldn't get it to work (see "I am not a coder" above ;) ).

Regards,

Joel - W4JBB

mokombo zidane

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Nov 8, 2024, 9:20:16 AM11/8/24

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Ole Saastad

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Nov 26, 2024, 3:12:48 PM11/26/24

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I use the following Python lines to update the QTH, it should be a simple matter to change it to update the callsign and launch it from a web page. I use a launch icon to

execute the script. More details at : https://github.com/olewsaa/amateur-radio/tree/main/on-the-move

# The Pat config file is a json file, just load the json object and update the
# relevant entry and save.

cf=MYHOME+"/.config/pat/config.json"
f=open(cf,"r+")
config = json.load(f)
config['locator']=grid
json_obj=json.dumps(config, indent=4)
f.truncate(0) # Clear the file
f.seek(0) # I miss the rewind statement.
f.write(json_obj)
f.close()

Tad Smedes

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Nov 29, 2024, 12:54:28 PM11/29/24

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I will give it a try. Thank you.

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