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vk6flab / contest-logger

Cross platform amateur radio contest logging tool.
https://vk6flab.github.io/contest-logger/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Consider support for existing XMLRPC standard(s) #8

Open NoseyNick opened 1 year ago

NoseyNick commented 1 year ago

http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp/xmlrpc_control_page.html describes an existing XMLRPC "control method [...] currently used by several external programs including flrig, logger32 and Xlog"

I confess I haven't researched too deep, but piggy-backing on that MAY mean you can pretend to be flog / logger32 for the purpose of receiving logs directly from those other programs, and/or sneak your way into an existing ecosystem or three?

If it looks like it's going to be a total PITA, forget it, and/or consider looking into other standards that may be out there... Or make a new standard because https://xkcd.com/927/ :laughing:

vk6flab commented 1 year ago

This is a really interesting idea that I've not considered until you brought it here. I'll tag this as an enhancement and help-wanted to encourage this issue as a repository of these types of interfaces. For example, at this time I have no idea how WSJT-X and GridTracker exchange information. No doubt there are others.