I can add that capability.  But I think we need both ATU On/Off and Tune On/Off
So maybeTUNE 0/1ATU 0/1
orTUNE 0/1TUNER 0/1
One being a verb and one being a noun. So TUNE actually starts tuning and TUNER 
turns the automatic on/off
Opinions?
de Mike W9MDB

 

    On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 7:24:21 AM CST, Bill Somerville 
<g4...@classdesign.com> wrote:  
 
  On 13/01/2019 13:08, DG2YCB, Uwe wrote:
  
 
Hi Bill,
 
I do not use the hamlib rigctl. Perhaps I should try it that way. But switching 
band via command line seems to be not really more elegant than just switching 
band directly at the FT-991 . Anyway, I fully agree, that this topic has only 
low priority in comparison with others. In my case having such an option would 
simply be quite useful.
 
Just FYI see below FT-991’s CAT commands for ATU control: “AC000” means ATU 
off, “AC001” means ATU on, and “AC002” means start tuning (which is not 
relevant here). Adding “AC000;” or “AC001;” to the CAT commands for band or 
frequency change works quite well with my FT-991 for the purpose of switching 
the ATU on or off.
 

 
 
Hi Uwe,
 
you have misunderstood my suggestion. Hamlib rigctld is a rig control server, 
it allows multiple applications to access the same rig. What I was suggesting 
is that you can use rigctld to connect to your rig and then have WSJT-X connect 
to rigctld. WSJT-X will do rig control as before, the difference is that 
another application can now be used to send other rig control instructions to 
the rig as well. That other application could be the Hamlib rigctl command line 
tool that could tell your rig to enable or disable its ATU. The only part of 
this that is missing is that currently Hamlib only knows how to send the AC002 
command to an FT-991 but it can be easily enhanced to also send ATU on/off 
commands (AC001/AC002). The command would look like:
 
rigctrl -m2 U TUNER 1
 
to turn on the ATU and:
 
rigctl -m2 U TUNER 0
 
to turn off the ATU.
 
73
 Bill
 G4WJS.
 
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