THE README WAS GONE. A commit of mine last night replaced OpsLog's readme
with the text of the TCI protocol specification — 322 lines of ours for 77
of Expert Electronics' — and nobody noticed because nothing builds from
it. Restored from the commit before, then updated.
What it was missing, all of it shipped since: the Kenwood/Elecraft and
Yaesu CAT backends and their consoles, the SunSDR console, TCI audio in
both directions, CAT sharing over Hamlib rigctl or TCI, the Elecraft
KPA500/KPA1500 and the Tuner Genius XL, Cloudlog and HAMLOG uploads, the
RDA district work, the DXCC Challenge, the editable satellite list, four
main-view panes instead of two, and Esri basemaps in place of Carto.
Also a section on importing a log, which had none — including the rule
that matters most to somebody moving years of contacts across: a deleted
DXCC entity keeps the number the file gives it, because cty.dat only knows
where a callsign is today.
The specification settles what a night of experiments could only guess at.
TRX takes an optional THIRD argument naming the signal source — tci, mic1,
mic2, micPC, ecoder2 — and TCI 2.0 says it plainly: 'The signal for
transmitting is always taken from the microphone selected in the
ExpertSDR3. If a third-party software connected via TCI wants to transmit
its audio signal, you must specify the third argument - TCI.'
Without it the radio sends no chrono at all, whatever the mode. That is
what the SSB attempts ran into, and what was misread here as 'digital
modes only' — the mode was never the rule, the missing argument was.
So OpsLog says it, following the 'To radio' device: 'tci' when the voice
keyer owns the transmission, nothing at all otherwise, which leaves the
operator's own microphone alone for every other PTT. Nobody has to find
that setting in ExpertSDR3 and set it again for every mode, which is how
it is remembered there.
Two more things from the same document. A chrono with no audio ready is
now answered with silence rather than left unanswered — the vendor calls
that preferable. And the receive stream declares float32 and two channels
instead of trusting the defaults: they are the documented defaults, but a
default is something another program sharing this radio can have changed,
and a stream in an unexpected format is heard as noise rather than as a
mistake.
This reverts commit 6a28344. Restore the once-a-day anonymous PostHog heartbeat
and its opt-out toggle: telemetry.go (sendTelemetryHeartbeat, GetTelemetryEnabled/
SetTelemetryEnabled, PostHog host + API key), the startup goroutine, the Settings
→ General toggle + i18n keys, and the README/wiki mentions. version.go is dropped
again (appVersion moves back into telemetry.go). release.ps1 (untracked) pointed
back at telemetry.go by hand.
Drop the once-a-day anonymous "app_opened" heartbeat to PostHog and everything
around it: telemetry.go (sendTelemetryHeartbeat, GetTelemetryEnabled/
SetTelemetryEnabled, install-ID/last-sent settings keys, PostHog host + API key)
and the startup goroutine that fired it. The 'Send anonymous usage statistics'
toggle is removed from Settings → General (TelemetryToggle + i18n keys), and the
telemetry mentions are stripped from the README and wiki.
appVersion (still used by changelog/update/livestatus/log-email) moves to a new
version.go; release.ps1 now rewrites it there instead of telemetry.go.
rouggy