Files
OpsLog/internal/cat/kenwood.go
T
rouggy 3dd428d748 fix(cat): stop deasserting DTR/RTS on Kenwood and Yaesu
d4bfd30 fixed a Xiegu G90 behind a DE-19 that keyed on connect, and I
applied the same line-lowering to Kenwood and Yaesu with no evidence that
either needed it. It silenced them: many USB-serial interfaces will not
transmit with RTS low — hardware flow control, or an output stage the
line enables. A TS-990 on COM3 opened cleanly and answered nothing, which
reached us as "CAT stopped working after the update".

Xiegu keeps the behaviour: that is where the fault was reported, and that
backend now has an explicit setting for which line keys the rig. The CI-V
backend keeps its own, which predates all of this.

Kenwood also distinguishes a silent port from one sending data that never
answers, and quotes what arrived — "the rig is not answering" sent an
operator checking the power switch on a radio whose frames were visibly
on the wire.
2026-08-01 12:09:11 +02:00

651 lines
22 KiB
Go

package cat
// Native Kenwood CAT — TS-590, TS-890, TS-2000 and the many rigs that speak the
// same dialect (Elecraft K3/K4, and the "Kenwood/Elecraft" setting on Flex and
// SunSDR). Plain ASCII, every command terminated by ';', same shape as Yaesu but
// a different vocabulary.
//
// The dialect is already proven in this repository from the other side:
// internal/catemu ANSWERS these commands, pretending to be a TS-2000 so an ACOM
// amplifier follows OpsLog. The frame layouts here and there are the same ones.
//
// Commands used:
//
// FA; → FA00014025000; VFO A frequency, ELEVEN digits, Hz
// FB; → FB00014030000; VFO B frequency
// IF; → 38-char status frame: frequency, RX/TX, mode, VFO, split —
// the whole operating state in ONE round trip, which is why it
// is the poll rather than asking four separate questions.
// MD; → MD3; mode (1=LSB 2=USB 3=CW 4=FM 5=AM 6=FSK
// 7=CW-R 9=FSK-R)
// FR0;/FR1; receive VFO — 0 = A, 1 = B
// FT0;/FT1; transmit VFO (split = the two differ)
// TX;/RX; key / unkey
// ID; → ID020; model number
// AI0; silence unsolicited status reports
//
// Why not OmniRig: the same reason the Yaesu backend exists. Every Kenwood
// fault reported through OmniRig came from its interpretation layer rather than
// from the radio, and the rig file decides what a "Freq" property means.
import (
"bytes"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net"
"strconv"
"strings"
"sync"
"time"
"go.bug.st/serial"
)
// Kenwood is the native backend. One serial port, one mutex: a command and its
// reply are never interleaved with another exchange.
type Kenwood struct {
portName string
baud int
// host is "address:port" for a serial link reached over the network — a
// ser2net daemon, an Ethernet-serial adapter, a Raspberry Pi in the shack.
//
// This is NOT Kenwood's own network protocol. A TS-890 or TS-990 speaks
// KNS/ARCP over its Ethernet socket, with a session and authentication, and
// that is a different piece of work needing one of those radios to confirm
// it. What this covers is the same CAT byte stream over a socket instead of
// a wire, which is how most operators actually put a rig on the network.
host string
digital string // mode name logged for data (FT8 by default)
mu sync.Mutex
port serial.Port
// dialPort, when set, replaces serial.Open. It exists so the backend can be
// driven against internal/catemu — which already SPEAKS this dialect to
// satisfy an ACOM amplifier — without a radio, a COM port or a null-modem
// pair. Written for a Kenwood backend nobody here owns a rig to test.
dialPort func() (serial.Port, error)
model string
curFreq int64
curRXFreq int64
curVFO string // "A" or "B"
// Commands this rig answered "?;" to — asked once, then never again.
unsupported map[string]bool
// rx holds bytes read but not yet consumed, ACROSS calls to ask.
//
// It has to survive: a rig answers faster than we ask, so one Read often
// returns a whole reply plus the start of the next frame. When this buffer
// was local to ask, everything after the matched frame was dropped — half a
// frame included — and the link desynchronised permanently: every ask then
// found the PREVIOUS command's answer and timed out waiting for its own.
// That is the "discarding \" 000000000010000000;\" while waiting for IF"
// a TS-480 reported, followed by connected=false for ever.
rx []byte
// heard is whatever arrived during Connect that was not a reply we wanted.
// Kept only to put it in the error message: "not answering" and "answering
// something unreadable" are different faults with different fixes.
heard string
}
// where names the link for a message, so an error does not read "COM @ 0 baud"
// after a network connect.
func (k *Kenwood) where() string {
if k.host != "" {
return k.host
}
return k.portName
}
// NewKenwoodTCP builds a backend that reaches the rig over a socket instead of
// a COM port (ser2net and friends).
func NewKenwoodTCP(hostPort, digital string) *Kenwood {
k := NewKenwood("", 0, digital)
k.host = strings.TrimSpace(hostPort)
return k
}
func NewKenwood(portName string, baud int, digital string) *Kenwood {
if baud <= 0 {
baud = 9600 // TS-590 factory default; TS-890 ships at 115200
}
if strings.TrimSpace(digital) == "" {
digital = "FT8"
}
return &Kenwood{portName: strings.TrimSpace(portName), baud: baud, digital: digital, curVFO: "A"}
}
func (k *Kenwood) Name() string { return "kenwood" }
func (k *Kenwood) Connect() error {
k.mu.Lock()
defer k.mu.Unlock()
if k.portName == "" && k.host == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: no serial port or network address configured")
}
// Close any handle still held before opening another: Connect runs again on
// every reconnect, and Windows opens a serial port exclusively, so a leaked
// handle makes the next open fail with "port busy" (the fault found in the
// Yaesu backend — same shape here).
if k.port != nil {
_ = k.port.Close()
k.port = nil
}
p, err := k.openPort()
if err != nil {
if k.host != "" {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: connect %s: %w", k.host, err)
}
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: open %s @ %d baud: %w", k.portName, k.baud, err)
}
p.SetReadTimeout(300 * time.Millisecond)
k.port = p
k.unsupported = map[string]bool{}
// Silence unsolicited status reports: they interleave with our
// request/response pairs and make a reply impossible to attribute. We poll.
_ = k.write("AI0;")
// Start from silence. A reconnect inherits whatever the rig said last —
// unsolicited frames sent before AI0 landed, the tail of an answer nobody
// read — and one stale frame is enough to leave every ask one reply behind
// its question for the rest of the session.
k.rx = nil
k.drain(250 * time.Millisecond)
k.heard = ""
answered := false
if id, err := k.ask("ID;"); err == nil && strings.HasPrefix(id, "ID") {
answered = true
code := strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(id, "ID"), ";")
if name, ok := kenwoodModels[code]; ok {
k.model = name
} else {
k.model = "Kenwood (" + code + ")"
debugLog.Printf("kenwood: unknown model id %q — add it to kenwoodModels", code)
}
}
// IF is the command everything else depends on, so it is also the honest
// test of whether a radio is really there.
if r, err := k.ask("IF;"); err == nil && strings.HasPrefix(r, "IF") {
answered = true
}
if !answered {
k.model = ""
if k.heard == "" && len(k.rx) > 0 {
k.heard = string(k.rx) // an unterminated fragment is evidence too
}
// Distinguish silence from noise. "The rig is not answering" sent an
// operator checking the power switch and the baud rate on a radio that was
// visibly talking — its frames were arriving, they just did not match what
// was asked (wrong baud garbles them; an interface echoing our own
// commands back produces the same). Say which of the two it is, and quote
// what came back, because that is the fact that decides where to look.
if seen := k.heard; seen != "" {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: %s is sending data but no reply to ID; or IF; — got %q. Check the baud rate (set to %d here) and that nothing else is echoing the port", k.where(), seen, k.baud)
}
if k.host != "" {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: %s accepted the connection but the rig sent nothing — check that the serial bridge points at the radio and that the radio is switched on", k.host)
}
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: %s opened but the rig sent nothing — check that it is switched on and set to %d baud", k.portName, k.baud)
}
// Name what was actually connected to. A log reading "connected on @ 0 baud"
// after a network connect is the kind of line that sends someone hunting a
// serial fault that does not exist.
if k.host != "" {
debugLog.Printf("kenwood: connected to %s (network serial bridge), model=%q", k.host, k.model)
} else {
debugLog.Printf("kenwood: connected on %s @ %d baud, model=%q", k.portName, k.baud, k.model)
}
return nil
}
func (k *Kenwood) Disconnect() {
k.mu.Lock()
defer k.mu.Unlock()
if k.port != nil {
_ = k.port.Close()
k.port = nil
}
}
// ReadState polls the rig. IF carries frequency, mode, VFO, split and TX state
// in one frame; the other VFO is only asked for when split is actually on, so
// the common simplex case costs a single round trip.
func (k *Kenwood) ReadState() (RigState, error) {
k.mu.Lock()
defer k.mu.Unlock()
if k.port == nil {
return RigState{}, fmt.Errorf("kenwood: not connected")
}
raw, err := k.ask("IF;")
if err != nil {
return RigState{}, err
}
f, ok := parseKenwoodIF(raw)
if !ok {
return RigState{}, fmt.Errorf("kenwood: unparsable IF frame %q", raw)
}
s := RigState{Connected: true, Backend: "kenwood"}
k.curVFO = f.VFO
s.Vfo = f.VFO
s.Mode = kenwoodModeToADIF(f.Mode, k.digital)
s.Rig = k.model
// IF reports the frequency of the VFO in USE (what the operator hears).
rx := f.FreqHz
tx := rx
// IF's split bit is not filled in by every rig that speaks this dialect —
// reported on a Flex through its Kenwood CAT emulation, where the frequency
// reads perfectly and split never appears. So ask the question directly as
// well: split IS "the transmit VFO differs from the receive VFO", which is
// what FR/FT answer, and it is the same rule the Yaesu backend settled on.
//
// A rig that rejects FR/FT answers "?;" once and is never asked again, so
// this costs two short commands per poll only where it actually works.
split := f.Split
if !split {
rxv, rxOK := k.askVFO("FR;")
txv, txOK := k.askVFO("FT;")
if rxOK && txOK && rxv != txv {
split = true
// Trust FR over IF for which VFO is in use: they were asked in the
// same breath, and a rig that leaves the split bit empty may be just
// as vague about the VFO field.
// f.VFO too, not just the reported state: the block below picks the
// TRANSMIT VFO as "the other one" from f.VFO, and leaving the two
// disagreeing would read the transmit frequency off the wrong dial.
if rxv == "A" || rxv == "B" {
k.curVFO, s.Vfo, f.VFO = rxv, rxv, rxv
}
}
}
f.Split = split
if f.Split {
// The transmit VFO is the other one. Read it rather than assume, and fall
// back to simplex if it cannot be read: a wrong TX frequency is written
// into the log, which is worse than showing no split at all.
other := "FB;"
if f.VFO == "B" {
other = "FA;"
}
if r, err := k.ask(other); err == nil {
if hz, ok := parseKenwoodFreq(r, strings.TrimSuffix(other, ";")); ok && hz > 0 && hz != rx {
tx = hz
}
}
}
if tx != rx {
s.FreqHz = tx // ADIF: FREQ is the TRANSMIT frequency
s.RxFreqHz = rx
s.Split = true
} else {
s.FreqHz = rx
}
k.curFreq = s.FreqHz
if s.Split {
k.curRXFreq = s.RxFreqHz
}
return s, nil
}
// SetFrequency tunes the VFO the operator is actually on — writing FA blind is
// what makes a display disagree with the radio when they are on B.
func (k *Kenwood) SetFrequency(hz int64) error {
k.mu.Lock()
defer k.mu.Unlock()
if k.port == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: not connected")
}
if hz <= 0 || hz > 99_999_999_999 {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: frequency %d out of the 11-digit CAT range", hz)
}
cmd := "FA"
if k.curVFO == "B" {
cmd = "FB"
}
return k.write(fmt.Sprintf("%s%011d;", cmd, hz))
}
func (k *Kenwood) SetMode(mode string) error {
k.mu.Lock()
defer k.mu.Unlock()
if k.port == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: not connected")
}
d := kenwoodModeDigit(mode, k.curFreq)
if d == 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: no CAT mode for %q", mode)
}
return k.write(fmt.Sprintf("MD%c;", d))
}
func (k *Kenwood) SetPTT(on bool) error {
k.mu.Lock()
defer k.mu.Unlock()
if k.port == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: not connected")
}
if on {
return k.write("TX;")
}
return k.write("RX;")
}
func (k *Kenwood) write(cmd string) error {
if k.port == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("kenwood: not connected")
}
traceText("kenwood", "TX", cmd)
_, err := k.port.Write([]byte(cmd))
return err
}
// drain reads and throws away whatever the rig has already sent, until it stays
// quiet for one read timeout or the budget runs out.
func (k *Kenwood) drain(budget time.Duration) {
if k.port == nil {
return
}
tmp := make([]byte, 256)
deadline := time.Now().Add(budget)
for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
n, err := k.port.Read(tmp)
if err != nil || n == 0 {
return // an error here is not interesting: we are throwing this away
}
traceText("kenwood", "RX-drop", string(tmp[:n]))
}
}
// ask sends a query and returns the reply belonging to THAT command. Anything
// else on the wire is discarded: a stray frame parsed as a frequency reads as
// "lost the rig" to the Manager, which then reconnects — the CAT link dropping
// for no reason (found the hard way on the Yaesu backend).
func (k *Kenwood) ask(cmd string) (string, error) {
want := cmdPrefix(cmd)
if k.unsupported[want] {
return "", fmt.Errorf("kenwood: %s is not supported by this rig", want)
}
if err := k.write(cmd); err != nil {
return "", err
}
tmp := make([]byte, 64)
deadline := time.Now().Add(600 * time.Millisecond)
for {
// Consume whatever is already buffered BEFORE reading more: the answer
// may have arrived attached to the previous one.
for {
i := bytes.IndexByte(k.rx, ';')
if i < 0 {
break
}
frame := string(k.rx[:i+1])
k.rx = k.rx[i+1:]
traceText("kenwood", "RX", frame)
if frame == "?;" {
// The rig rejected the command. Remember it so the poll loop stops
// paying a 600 ms timeout for it on every cycle.
k.unsupported[want] = true
debugLog.Printf("kenwood: this rig does not support %q — not asking again", cmd)
return "", fmt.Errorf("kenwood: %s rejected", want)
}
if strings.HasPrefix(frame, want) {
return frame, nil
}
debugLog.Printf("kenwood: discarding %q while waiting for %s", frame, want)
// Remember the first unexpected frame: if the whole handshake fails, this
// is what tells the operator the radio was talking after all.
if k.heard == "" {
k.heard = frame
}
}
if !time.Now().Before(deadline) {
return "", fmt.Errorf("kenwood: timeout answering %q", cmd)
}
n, err := k.port.Read(tmp)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
if n > 0 {
k.rx = append(k.rx, tmp[:n]...)
}
// n == 0 is a read timeout, not silence for good: the rig may still be
// composing its answer.
}
}
// ── Frame parsing ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// kenwoodIF is what the 38-character IF status frame carries.
type kenwoodIF struct {
FreqHz int64
Mode byte
VFO string // "A" or "B"
Split bool
// TX is parsed even though RigState has no PTT field: it is one character of
// the same frame, and having it here means a future "transmitting" indicator
// costs no extra round trip.
TX bool
}
// parseKenwoodIF reads the TS-2000/TS-590 status frame. Its layout — the same
// one internal/catemu emits — is:
//
// IF | freq(11) | step(4) | RIT(±5) | RIT/XIT/bank(3) | mem(2) | rx-tx(1) |
// mode(1) | VFO(1) | scan(1) | split(1) | tone(1) | tone#(2) | shift(1) | ;
//
// Fields are read by POSITION, so the length is checked first: a short frame
// means a truncated read, and indexing into it would panic or, worse, silently
// yield a wrong frequency.
func parseKenwoodIF(reply string) (kenwoodIF, bool) {
r := strings.TrimSpace(reply)
if !strings.HasPrefix(r, "IF") || len(r) < 38 {
return kenwoodIF{}, false
}
hz, err := strconv.ParseInt(strings.TrimSpace(r[2:13]), 10, 64)
if err != nil || hz <= 0 {
return kenwoodIF{}, false
}
out := kenwoodIF{FreqHz: hz, Mode: r[29], VFO: "A", TX: r[28] == '1', Split: r[32] == '1'}
if r[30] == '1' {
out.VFO = "B"
}
return out, true
}
// parseKenwoodFreq reads an FA/FB reply — ELEVEN digits on Kenwood, where Yaesu
// uses nine. The prefix is checked so an FB reply is never accepted as FA.
func parseKenwoodFreq(reply, prefix string) (int64, bool) {
r := strings.TrimSpace(reply)
if !strings.HasPrefix(r, prefix) {
return 0, false
}
digits := strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(r, prefix), ";")
if digits == "" {
return 0, false
}
hz, err := strconv.ParseInt(digits, 10, 64)
if err != nil || hz <= 0 {
return 0, false
}
return hz, true
}
// ── Modes ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// kenwoodModeDigit maps an ADIF mode to the Kenwood digit. The sideband follows
// the frequency by worldwide convention — a backend that puts USB on 40 m makes
// every SSB QSO in the log wrong.
func kenwoodModeDigit(mode string, hz int64) byte {
m := strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(mode))
switch m {
case "":
return 0
case "LSB":
return '1'
case "USB":
return '2'
case "CW":
return '3'
case "CW-R", "CWR":
return '7'
case "FM":
return '4'
case "AM":
return '5'
case "RTTY", "FSK":
return '6'
case "RTTY-R", "FSK-R":
return '9'
case "SSB":
if hz > 0 && hz < 10_000_000 {
return '1'
}
return '2'
}
// Any other digital mode rides on the data sideband, which on Kenwood is
// plain USB/LSB with the rig's DATA input selected.
if hz > 0 && hz < 10_000_000 {
return '1'
}
return '2'
}
// kenwoodModeToADIF turns the rig's mode digit into what the log records.
// Digital modes are indistinguishable from SSB over CAT — the rig only knows
// it is on USB — so the operator's configured digital mode is used, exactly as
// the other backends do.
func kenwoodModeToADIF(d byte, digital string) string {
switch d {
case '1':
return "LSB"
case '2':
return "USB"
case '3', '7':
return "CW"
case '4':
return "FM"
case '5':
return "AM"
case '6', '9':
return "RTTY"
}
return ""
}
// kenwoodModels maps the ID reply to a name for the status bar. An unknown code
// is shown as-is rather than refused: the model name is cosmetic, and a rig that
// answers everything else must not be rejected over it.
var kenwoodModels = map[string]string{
"017": "TS-570",
"019": "TS-2000",
"020": "TS-480",
"021": "TS-590S",
"023": "TS-590SG",
"024": "TS-990S",
"025": "TS-890S",
}
// openPort opens the serial link, or whatever dialPort provides in a test.
func (k *Kenwood) openPort() (serial.Port, error) {
if k.dialPort != nil {
return k.dialPort()
}
if k.host != "" {
c, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", k.host, 5*time.Second)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return &tcpSerial{conn: c}, nil
}
p, err := serial.Open(k.portName, &serial.Mode{BaudRate: k.baud})
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
// The modem lines are LEFT ALONE.
//
// They were briefly deasserted here, to stop an interface that reads them as
// PTT from keying the rig on connect. That silenced radios instead: a TS-990
// on COM3 opened fine and answered nothing, because a great many USB-serial
// interfaces will not transmit with RTS low — hardware flow control, or an
// output stage the line enables. "Opened but the rig sent nothing" was this,
// and it arrived as "CAT stopped working after the update".
//
// The fault that change was written for was a Xiegu G90 behind a DE-19, and
// that backend now has an explicit setting for which line keys it. A rig
// whose PTT is a CAT command has no business touching DTR or RTS at all.
return p, nil
}
// tcpSerial presents a TCP connection as a serial.Port, so the backend has one
// code path whether the rig is on a wire or on the network.
//
// The modem-control methods are no-ops rather than errors: a bridge has no DTR
// to raise, and failing them would break a caller that sets them defensively.
type tcpSerial struct{ conn net.Conn }
func (t *tcpSerial) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
n, err := t.conn.Read(p)
// A read deadline expiring is this transport's "no data yet", exactly what a
// serial read timeout means to the caller — not a dead link. Reporting it as
// an error would make ask() abandon a rig that is merely thinking.
if err != nil {
var ne net.Error
if errors.As(err, &ne) && ne.Timeout() {
return n, nil
}
}
return n, err
}
func (t *tcpSerial) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { return t.conn.Write(p) }
func (t *tcpSerial) Close() error { return t.conn.Close() }
func (t *tcpSerial) SetReadTimeout(d time.Duration) error {
if d <= 0 {
return t.conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Time{})
}
return t.conn.SetReadDeadline(time.Now().Add(d))
}
func (t *tcpSerial) SetMode(*serial.Mode) error { return nil }
func (t *tcpSerial) Drain() error { return nil }
func (t *tcpSerial) ResetInputBuffer() error { return nil }
func (t *tcpSerial) ResetOutputBuffer() error { return nil }
func (t *tcpSerial) SetDTR(bool) error { return nil }
func (t *tcpSerial) SetRTS(bool) error { return nil }
func (t *tcpSerial) GetModemStatusBits() (*serial.ModemStatusBits, error) {
return &serial.ModemStatusBits{}, nil
}
func (t *tcpSerial) Break(time.Duration) error { return nil }
// askVFO asks FR; or FT; and returns "A" or "B".
//
// The reply is FR0; / FR1; — the digit right after the two-letter command.
// Anything else (a rig that answers with more fields, or not at all) returns
// false, and the caller keeps whatever IF said rather than inventing a split.
func (k *Kenwood) askVFO(cmd string) (string, bool) {
r, err := k.ask(cmd)
if err != nil {
return "", false
}
want := cmdPrefix(cmd)
body := strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(r, want), ";")
if body == "" {
return "", false
}
switch body[0] {
case '0':
return "A", true
case '1':
return "B", true
}
// 2 is "sub receiver" on a TS-2000 — real, but not a VFO we track. Saying
// nothing is better than mapping it onto A or B and reporting a split that
// does not exist.
return "", false
}