Ability to automatically or manually send a QSO card image over email?

magicbug / Cloudlog

Web based amateur radio logging application built using PHP & MySQL supports general station logging tasks from HF to Microwave with supporting applications to support CAT control.

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Ability to automatically or manually send a QSO card image over email? #1424

Open MikeWills opened 2 years ago

MikeWills commented 2 years ago

This would be similar to the functionality within MacLogger DX.

magicbug commented 2 years ago

Dont use MacLogger to know its exact feature, however if someone wants to define a specification it might well end up getting coded :)

thelovebug commented 2 years ago

I'm very interested in this one too. Log4eQSL and Log4OM have been suggested as good solutions, but as I'm a Linux user, neither of them is suitable.

phl0 commented 2 years ago

How would you determine the email address of your QSO partner? I guess not to be asked on air :D

magicbug commented 2 years ago

My guess is based on callbook

MikeWills commented 2 years ago

Yes, call book or QRZ.

phl0 commented 2 years ago

Got a PoC working here. Needs a few more ifs and so on.... Does that meet your expectations roughly? :)

Screenshot from 2022-04-20 17-13-28

magicbug commented 2 years ago

Guessing it just needs to generate an "image" and attach it

phl0 commented 2 years ago

Well yeah. I have that in my mind (but not coded yet) ....

magicbug commented 2 years ago

My thought would be image associated to the station location uploadable

MikeWills commented 2 years ago

Yeah, that's looking like I was thinking. That's awesome! Sorry, I don't have the php skills or the time to help on this.

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My thought would be image associated to the station location uploadable

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phl0 commented 2 years ago

Yeah, that's looking like I was thinking. That's awesome! Sorry, I don't have the php skills or the time to help on this.

Nor do I .... :)

phl0 commented 2 years ago

My thought would be image associated to the station location uploadable

I like that idea. Plus some imagemagick to add QSO details to the image (template)?

phl0 commented 2 years ago

Got some more code in my PoC:

Screenshot from 2022-04-21 00-19-37

dg9vh commented 2 years ago

Looks pretty good :-)

Am Do., 21. Apr. 2022 um 00:23 Uhr schrieb Florian (DF2ET) < @.***>:

Got some more code in my PoC:

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dg9vh commented 2 years ago

As we now have a function in development that could send this emails, now it's time for thinking over the process of sending the emails in general. I think we should talk about two scenarios:

a) live-logging / past-logging b) importing via ADIF

In a) it would be easy to trigger the sending of the email with saving the QSO after setting a "requested-switch" to have an QSL-Card send for this (maybe set by default?) and set this marker to "sent" after sending the mail.

For b) we would need a cron-job running for example once a day fetching requested QSOs for mailing and then calling the existing function for each QSO in the results.

So we need some additional things:

a new switch on the QSL-Tab for managing the email-QSL (not requested/requested/sent)
a cronjob-function that fetches all qsos with requested email-QSLs.
a functionality to "mass modify" imported adif-QSOs to be marked as "email-QSL-requested".

Any other ideas?

Kim

phl0 commented 2 years ago

Tnx feedback @dg9vh

Currently the code is executed directly after saving a QSO. There is no GUI for that (yet). The thing that concerns me currently is where to store information about mQSLs being sent or not. I cannot find a suitable ADIF field for this information and QSL_SENT is probably for paper QSLs only. Maybe make a request towards ADIF?! :)

My plan (aligned with @magicbug) is that the image template for the mQSLs should be uploadable in the station location so that you can have a different pic for each station location. This is what I am currently working on.

dg9vh commented 2 years ago

In ADIF spec there are user-defined and application defined fields. See http://adif.org.uk/312/ADIF_312.htm#Application_defined_Fields

Maybe we could use them in between... 😉

Florian (DF2ET) @.***> schrieb am Fr., 22. Apr. 2022, 08:18:

Tnx feedback @dg9vh https://github.com/dg9vh

Currently the code is executed directly after saving a QSO. There is no GUI for that (yet). The thing that concerns me currently is where to store information about mQSLs being sent or not. I cannot find a suitable ADIF field for this information and QSL_SENT is probably for paper QSLs only. Maybe make a request towards ADIF?! :)

My plan (aligned with @magicbug https://github.com/magicbug) is that the image template for the mQSLs should be uploadable in the station location so that you can have a different pic for each station location. This is what I am currently working on.

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oh1jw commented 1 year ago

Hi, I'm throwing in my counter-thought and my alternative solution here.

In my opinion, this is a somewhat questionable feature, because the picture attached to the e-mail does not really confirm the connection when viewed in the award mind. And secondly, couldn't we just send paper cards if cards have to be received and given?

BUT, the bigger issue is that I myself have now started to receive these pictures as an e-mail attachment, for example from my peditions, and the pictures are filling up my inbox for no reason and consuming traffic bandwidth, for example for Märket's (OJ0) weak mobile network. The postal address is automatically downloaded from the QRZ.com database, but I have not put it there for these QSL photos.

We already have ready-made services for this kind of image carding, e.g. eQSL - and if you find it difficult to use, please code better, but not so that it sends an email to all your contacts without asking and because it's nice.

I understand that this feature may be perceived as important by some. Would a compromise option be that the recipient can, if he/she/they wishes, download his QSL card if he/she/they deems it necessary?

Just my two cents..