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The winkeydaemon is a script written in Perl 5 to allow amateur radio programs written to use the cwdaemon for sending Morse Code from a computer to send Morse Code using the K1EL Winkeyer and compatible hardware instead. Once started it listens on a network socket for commands and text to send to the attached device accessible through an RS-232 serial port or a USB port. The attached Winkeyer device then handles keying a radio for transmitting Morse Code.
While this combination of software and hardware is often used for radio sport (amateur radio contesting) it can also be used for daily operation using Morse Code. This combination is useful for transmitting clean, well formed Morse Code but does not aid in receiving Morse Code. Other software, and perhaps hardware, is required for computer decoding of Morse Code. Radio sport operators like to use the computer to send Morse Code in order to keep their fingers on the keyboard for fast sending of various messages used during such events.
Releases are available through the Releases page.
As the script works well for my needs, development mostly comes from others who have a need to bend the script to their own hardware. Patch submissions are welcome and pull requests through the GitHub system work well.
A few files are included in the main directory. INSTALL gives installation instructions. A UNIX manual page may be found in the man directory. The script includes many comments.
As of Ver 1.0.9 the documentation is contained in the script as Perl POD (Plain Old Documentation). The manual page is generated from the POD using the pod2man --center="K1EL keyer driver" --release="Winkeydaemon" src/winkeydaemon > man/winkeydaemon.1 command. Thanks to Zoli, HA5CQZ, for adding this support.