feat(sat): PstRotator can point the antenna too

It handles azimuth and elevation, and a great many stations already run
it in front of a controller OpsLog has never heard of. For those,
OpsLog talking to the controller itself would be a second program
fighting PstRotator over the same cable — so it hands over the bearing
instead, and lets PstRotator turn the mast.

Both kinds sit behind one small interface, chosen in Settings. Neither is
more correct than the other: the right one is whichever the station
already has working.

The 450° overlap is deliberately NOT applied on the PstRotator path.
PstRotator knows which machine is on the other end and does its own; two
programs each deciding to go the long way round is exactly how an antenna
unwinds in the middle of a pass.

Position queries are asked at most every three seconds rather than on
every tick. A PstRotator query binds a socket and waits up to a second
and a half, and many setups answer nothing at all — so one silence is
enough and it stops asking, reporting the commanded position instead and
saying that is what it is.
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package main
// The two ways a satellite station points its antenna.
//
// Some operators drive their az/el rotator directly — EasyComm II, what
// SatPC32 and Gpredict speak. Others already run PstRotator, which sits between
// them and a dozen different controllers and handles az AND el; for those,
// OpsLog talking to the controller itself would be a second program fighting
// PstRotator over the same cable.
//
// So both, behind one small interface, chosen in Settings. Neither is more
// "correct" than the other: the right one is whichever the station already has
// working.
import (
"fmt"
"math"
"strings"
"sync"
"hamlog/internal/rotator/easycomm"
"hamlog/internal/rotator/pst"
)
// satRotator is what the tracker needs of an antenna: point it, ask where it
// is, and let go of it at the end of the pass.
type satRotator interface {
Point(az, el float64) error
// Heading reports where the antenna is. live is false when the answer is
// the last commanded position rather than a reading — a stuck rotator must
// not be able to hide behind an order it never carried out.
Heading() (az, el float64, live bool, err error)
Close()
}
// The rotator kinds, as stored.
const (
satRotEasycomm = "easycomm"
satRotPst = "pstrotator"
)
// newSatRotator builds the configured controller.
func newSatRotator(s SatSettings) (satRotator, error) {
switch s.RotType {
case satRotPst:
if strings.TrimSpace(s.RotHost) == "" && s.RotPort <= 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no address for PstRotator")
}
return &pstSatRotator{c: pst.New(s.RotHost, s.RotPstPort), maxAz: s.RotMaxAz}, nil
default:
if s.RotTransport == "tcp" {
if strings.TrimSpace(s.RotHost) == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no address for the rotator")
}
return easycomm.New(s.RotHost, s.RotPort, s.RotMaxAz), nil
}
if strings.TrimSpace(s.RotCOM) == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no COM port for the rotator")
}
return easycomm.NewSerial(s.RotCOM, s.RotBaud, s.RotMaxAz), nil
}
}
// pstSatRotator points the antenna through PstRotator.
//
// PstRotator takes whole degrees and does its own overlap handling for a 450°
// rotator — it knows which controller is on the other end, and OpsLog does not.
// So the azimuth is sent plainly, and the 450° logic that EasyComm needs is
// deliberately NOT applied here: two programs each deciding to go the long way
// round is how an antenna ends up unwinding in the middle of a pass.
type pstSatRotator struct {
c *pst.Client
maxAz int
mu sync.Mutex
// lastAz/lastEl are what was commanded, for the display when PstRotator
// does not answer a position query — which is the usual case for the many
// setups whose controller reports nothing back to it either.
lastAz, lastEl float64
commanded bool
azSilent bool // the azimuth query went unanswered; stop asking
elSilent bool // likewise for elevation, and far more common
}
func (p *pstSatRotator) Point(az, el float64) error {
a := math.Mod(az, 360)
if a < 0 {
a += 360
}
if el < 0 {
el = 0
}
if el > 180 {
el = 180
}
if err := p.c.GoTo(int(math.Round(a)), true, int(math.Round(el))); err != nil {
return err
}
p.mu.Lock()
p.lastAz, p.lastEl, p.commanded = a, el, true
p.mu.Unlock()
return nil
}
func (p *pstSatRotator) Heading() (float64, float64, bool, error) {
p.mu.Lock()
azSilent, elSilent, la, le, commanded := p.azSilent, p.elSilent, p.lastAz, p.lastEl, p.commanded
p.mu.Unlock()
az, el, live := la, le, false
if !azSilent {
if v, _, err := p.c.Heading(); err == nil {
az, live = float64(v), true
} else {
// One silence is enough. Each query binds a socket and waits a second
// and a half; repeating that every few seconds for a setup that will
// never answer is a stall per poll for nothing.
p.mu.Lock()
p.azSilent = true
p.mu.Unlock()
}
}
if !elSilent {
if v, _, err := p.c.Elevation(); err == nil {
el = float64(v)
} else {
p.mu.Lock()
p.elSilent = true
p.mu.Unlock()
}
}
if !live && !commanded {
return 0, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("PstRotator does not report the antenna position")
}
return az, el, live, nil
}
// Close: nothing to release. Every PstRotator command is one datagram, and the
// socket lives for the length of a single write.
func (p *pstSatRotator) Close() {}