IC-7610 USB CAT in RumlogNG
Posted: Sun 18. Feb 2018, 13:02
Hello all,
I've connected my IC-7610 to my Mac, which is running High Sierra (10.13.3). I used the Silicon Labs VCP drivers (v5, as downloaded here: https://www.silabs.com/products/develop ... cp-drivers).
The driver adds two USB serial ports, named SLAB_USBtoUART and SLAB_USBtoUART3. I can connect successfully to the SLAB_USBtoUART3 device (the other one seems not to do anything at the moment for me).
In RumLogNG, I was getting the frequency and mode, but only a single reading. If were to spin the dial, no further polling seemed to occur. If I used the Transceiver > Reset CAT #1 option in RumlogNG, I got another update - but only one.
I was confused by this and wondered if the drivers are not working, so I tried it with MacLoggerDX (which supports the Icom-7610 as well). It works fine and follows the frequency. Obviously a setting! After hunting around, I found you can solve it on the Icom itself: go into the Settings > Connectors > CI-V and turn on "CI-V Transceive". This seems to immediately resolve my problem, and I'm now connected up as expected to RumlogNG. Don't forget you must also match the port speed.
Thank you so much for everything, Thomas! What would we do without RumlogNG?
73
Michael G7VJR
I've connected my IC-7610 to my Mac, which is running High Sierra (10.13.3). I used the Silicon Labs VCP drivers (v5, as downloaded here: https://www.silabs.com/products/develop ... cp-drivers).
The driver adds two USB serial ports, named SLAB_USBtoUART and SLAB_USBtoUART3. I can connect successfully to the SLAB_USBtoUART3 device (the other one seems not to do anything at the moment for me).
In RumLogNG, I was getting the frequency and mode, but only a single reading. If were to spin the dial, no further polling seemed to occur. If I used the Transceiver > Reset CAT #1 option in RumlogNG, I got another update - but only one.
I was confused by this and wondered if the drivers are not working, so I tried it with MacLoggerDX (which supports the Icom-7610 as well). It works fine and follows the frequency. Obviously a setting! After hunting around, I found you can solve it on the Icom itself: go into the Settings > Connectors > CI-V and turn on "CI-V Transceive". This seems to immediately resolve my problem, and I'm now connected up as expected to RumlogNG. Don't forget you must also match the port speed.
Thank you so much for everything, Thomas! What would we do without RumlogNG?
73
Michael G7VJR