rigctld refuses connection

[kha...@orange-road.com]

I'm trying to get Pat set up on a Mac, and have run into an obstacle. I'm using this command:

rigctld -m 1043 /dev/tty.usbserial-AG6BJM6Y -s 38400

This produces the output:

rig.c(745):rig_open return

When I then do "pat interactive", I see this:

Unable to get frequency from rig 897: dial tcp [::1]:4532: connect: connection refused.

I've tried using cu.usbserial-AG6BJM6Y instead, as that's the device I use for everything else that talks to my FT-897, but it doesn't make any difference.

I searched through the group's archive, but didn't find any solution (aside from checking for typos, which I did). There is a mention in the Pat docs that I can recompile it to use the conventional hamlib, but before I try that I thought I'd see if anyone had successfully gotten Pat talking to rigctld on a Mac.

[kha...@orange-road.com]

Since rigctld apparently doesn't work on the Mac, I turned my attention to this line in the documentation:

"Pat can use the conventional hamlib via serial/usb, but you'll need to recompile Pat with -tags libhamlib."

I'm reasonably confident that conventional hamlib works just fine, since WSJT-X uses it. This raises the question: how exactly do I recompile Pat with -tags libhamlib?

[Carlos]

It sure works on the Mac. Admittedly I used this on an old Mac a few years ago and you’ll need to change the device name:

rigctld -m 120 -r /dev/tty.usbserial-A603I02H -s 38400 -t 4532 -C stop_bits=2&

That was for an FT-817nd

[Ken Hagler]

On Mar 20, 2021, at 5:45 PM, Carlos <cve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It sure works on the Mac. Admittedly I used this on an old Mac a few years ago and you’ll need to change the device name:
> rigctld -m 120 -r /dev/tty.usbserial-A603I02H -s 38400 -t 4532 -C stop_bits=2&

This made me realize I was missing an ‘r’, which got me moving again. I finally got the following line to work:

rigctld -m 1023 -r /dev/cu.usbserial-AG6BJM6Y -s 38400 -p /dev/cu.usbserial-AG6BJM6Y -P RTS

So, progress!

I did find some build instructions for Pat here:

https://github.com/la5nta/pat/wiki/Building-from-source

I considered trying to rebuild it to use hamlib just so I wouldn’t have to jump through a pointless extra hoop, but then it occurred to me that there probably wouldn’t be any way to actually set the relevant preferences if I did. :-/
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