Initalizaion Alpha Two

alpha/init-alpha.ino

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-HamHead CI-V Alpha Module - Initialization
+HamHead CI-V Alpha Module
 
 This is a test of multiple things, an initialization routine
 as well as working with pointers. Pointers was easy; getting
@@ -8,15 +8,13 @@ variables and such. Pointers are used so that we can just work
 on one VFO variable that's mapped to whatever the current one
 is. 
 
-Echo and ACK data are simply dropped right now. I have some
+This now gets the current VFO mode, writes it to a variable, then
-plans of maybe using echos to keep VFO in sync. But I will
+switch cases it to set a string. I may do something similar to
-determine this as I actually build functions. 
+automatically handle "valid" CI-V frames. I need to anyway for
-
+transcieve data.
-We now automatically drop the Echo and ACK ($FB), but you
-MUST call getdata() to do so. 
 
 */
-#define DEBUG 0
+#define DEBUG 0 //enables or disables debug(), debug2(), and debugln() debugging output
 #if DEBUG == 1
 #define debug(x) Serial.print(x)
 #define debug2(x,y) Serial.print(x,y)
@@ -33,16 +31,18 @@ MUST call getdata() to do so.
 const byte numBytes = 32;
 long dec[6];
 byte rxbytes[numBytes];
-unsigned long vfoa;
+unsigned long vfoa; // VFO A
-unsigned long vfob;
+unsigned long vfob; // VFO B
-unsigned long vfos;
+unsigned long vfos; // starting VFO
-//byte civ[9];
+byte civ[9] = {0xFE, 0xFE, 0x88, 0xE0}; // civ array with preamble
-byte civ[9] = {0xFE, 0xFE, 0x88, 0xE0, 0xFF, 0xFF};
+byte endbyte = 0xFD; // I'm not keeping the endbyte in the array.
-byte endbyte = 0xFD;
+unsigned long *v; // pointer for whatever VFO we're in
-unsigned long *v;
+String *m; // pointer for current VFO's mode
 boolean newdata = false;
 int bc;
 long bcd[6];
+String vam;
+String vbm;
 
 void setup() {
 Serial1.begin(19200);
@@ -53,17 +53,24 @@ debugln("Getting Starting VFO...");
 v = &vfos;
 getvfo();
 v = &vfoa;
+m = &vam;
 setvfo(0x00);
 getvfo();
-//debugln();
+getmode();
 v = &vfob;
+m = &vbm;
 setvfo(0x01);
 getvfo();
+getmode();
 Serial.print("VFO A: ");
 Serial.print(vfoa, DEC);
+Serial.print(" - ");
+Serial.print(vam);
 Serial.println();
 Serial.print("VFO B: ");
 Serial.print(vfob, DEC);
+Serial.print(" - ");
+Serial.print(vbm);
 debugln();
 debugln("Reverting to initial VFO.");
 setstartvfo();
@@ -84,7 +91,7 @@ void getdata() {
       bc = 0; // i don't trust myself
     } else if (rb == 0xFD) { // end of the frame
       rxbytes[bc] = '\0'; // terminate the string
-      if (rxbytes[0]==0x88 || rxbytes[2] == 0xFB) {
+      if (rxbytes[0]==0x88 || rxbytes[2] == 0xFB) { // check the array for echo at index 0 or ACK at index 3
         newdata = false;  // auto-echo ditch&ack
         bc = 0;
       }
@@ -101,10 +108,10 @@ void getdata() {
 long gogovfo() {
     int i = 0;
     long ggv;
-    #ifdef MODE731
+    #ifdef MODE731 // The IC-731/735, and I assume the 765/CI-IV, only send 4 bytes for frequency. We only need to account for index starting at 0.
       bc--;
     #else
-    bc -=2;
+    bc -=2; // Everything after the 735 sends 5 bytes (unless you put the radio in 731 mode). We're HF only; this ditches the extra byte and index adjustment.
     #endif
     for (int x = bc; x > 2; x--) {
       bcd[i] = (((rxbytes[x] >> 4) *10) + (rxbytes[x]&0xF));
@@ -114,19 +121,30 @@ long gogovfo() {
     return ggv;
     }
     
+void swapvfo() {
+  debugln("Sending VFO Swap");
+  send7(0x07, 0xB0); // VFO, SWAP A/B
+  Serial1.flush();
+  delay(50); // I'm assuming this is needed to wait for the radio to send data
+  getdata(); // I might be able to avoid all delay() if I do something with my loop.
+  }
 void setvfo(byte vfo) {
-  //byte zz;
+
   if (vfo == 0x00) debugln ("Setting VFO A");
   else debugln("Setting VFO B");
-  send7(0x07, vfo);
+  send7(0x07, vfo); // VFO, A or B (0x00 or 0x01)
   Serial1.flush();
   delay(50);
   getdata(); // drop the echo
- // newdata=false;
-//  getdata(); // drop the ack
-//  newdata=false; 
 }
 
+/*
+
+the send# functions just replace the appropiate array index with whatever
+was passed to it. It'd be nice if I could have one function with an additional
+value of bytes; but something something "expects 2, sends 1" arguement error.
+
+*/
 void send6(byte cmd) {
   civ[4]=cmd;
   Serial1.write(civ,5);
@@ -146,15 +164,54 @@ void send7(byte cmd, byte data) {
   
 void getvfo() {
   debugln("Sending VFO Read");
-  send6(0x03);
+  send6(0x03); // 03 is VFO read
   Serial1.flush();
   delay(50);
- // getdata(); // drop the echo
- // newdata=false;
   getdata(); // preload the vfo
   *v = gogovfo(); // process and update
  }
 
+void getmode() {
+  int mode;
+  debugln("Getting Mode.");
+  send6(0x04); // 04 is mode read
+  getdata();
+  mode = (int) rxbytes[3]; // it's easy enough to just deal with mode as integer
+  switch (mode) { 
+    case 0:
+      *m = "LSB";
+      break;
+    case 1:
+      *m = "USB";
+      break;
+    case 2:
+      *m = "AM";
+      break;
+    case 3:
+      *m = "CW";
+      break;
+    case 4:
+      *m = "RTTY";
+      break;
+    case 5:
+      *m = "FM";
+      break;
+    case 7:
+      *m = "CW-R";
+      break;
+    case 8:
+      *m = "RTTY-R";
+      break;
+    case 23:
+      *m = "D-Star DV";
+      break;
+    default:
+      *m = "INVALID";
+      break;
+  }
+  newdata = false;
+  }
+  
 void setstartvfo() {
     Serial.println();
   if (vfos == vfoa) {