Project TouCans Web Control Panel ala Chat-GPT o3-mini

Changing TouCans so that the Pico-W that controls the rig could be accessed by my smartphone hot spot did more than just get rid of the noise coming back from the rig. It also allowed me to start thinking about a Project TouCans web based control panel, a project I'd given up on last year when I decided that the Pico-W had to serve as the host of the network for TouCans rahter than just another device hooked onto a larger network.

With TouCans hanging on the same netowrk as the laptop I usually use to control it, the laptop was able to also access the internet at large through the phone's hot spot. I quickly thought through what this might enable. I then, asked o3-mini to write up a web page for me, and before very long at all, I had:

Messages typed into the 'Custom Message' block are sent out over the keyer when the 'Send' button is clicked. The page contains panels that show both the Utah SDR that's most like to pick up TouCans, and the Reverse Beacon Network with a KD0FNR-on-20m filter set. The POTA/SOTA panel is inspired by the autokeyer conversation I heard on HRWB episode 225 . I type in the call and rst of the op calling my POTA activation, click start POTA, and the app sends out 'CALL tnx (ge, gm, ga), u r RST RST CA CA bk. o3-mini wrote code for me that decides which of ge, gm, or ga to send based on the time of day at my location. It also fill in the state from an input box further up the scrren. I enter my received RST in the rx_rst box and the other stations location in the rx_qth box. Clicking End POTA creates a log line in the Log textbox that autamically contains all this information and the UTC time of the call!

I'll write more about all of this soon, but I wanted to get a preview out! Here's a QSO using the panel.

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