[Elecraft] K2Net - yet another remote K2 control program

[Julian (G4ILO)]

There has been some discussion of K2 remote control software here recently, 
so I thought I'd upload for your amusement K2Net version 0.2, a suite of 
programs consisting of a client and a server to allow you to control your 
K2 remotely via a network. You'll find a fuller description of the 
software, including my reasons for writing it and my ultimate objectives 
for it, on my web site. As I've spent quite a lot of time getting to where 
I am so far, I thought I'd take a break from it, upload the current build 
and see what people think.

K2Net has been written using Delphi 6, so it runs on Microsoft Windows. I'm 
using XP, so that's what it has been tested on. A lot of effort has been 
spent making the user interface as much like a real K2 as possible. The 
server supports a command line interface that can be used from a Telnet 
client. Status information from the K2 is decoded and buffered by the 
server so you only get told about what has changed, to save network traffic 
and improve latency. It would be relatively easy to write a client that ran 
on a different kind of computer, such as a hand-held, as long as the server 
runs on a PC.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone with Delphi coding experience who 
would be interested in adding some of the missing functionality; however, 
the need to use a commercial component (when I can afford it!) in order to 
add an audio streaming capability makes it impractical to make this an 
open-source project. In the meantime, there's a link on my site showing 
where you can get the demos for the audio streaming component, which can be 
used separately to provide the two-way audio link.

73,
--
Julian, G4ILO. (RSGB, ARRL, G-QRP, K2 #392)
G4ILO's Shack: http://www.qsl.net/g4ilo

(hopefully all the hits I'm going to get won't get me thrown off qsl.net!)