Reading 'extended' data from menus via serial

[David Patino]

Howdy,

So some of the menu options have a basic setting, ie on/off, but then an
extended setting as well. For example the Alarm menu:
MN000;
When read with MP; it will only report if the alarm is on or not (Bit 4
on / off)
you can turn it on or off by changing that bit with MP, and you can
change the hours/minutes setting (after sending the right SWT command)
using UP; or DN;, but is there any way to read what time the alarm is
set to?

The programming reference says "(In some cases, more than one value can
be accessed for a given menu entry via the numeric keys;
see menu listing in manual.)"

All the manual says for the alarm menu is:
Num 1 turns the alarm on/off
Num 2 select hours
Num 3 selects minutes

None of these change what is reported by MP though and I can't seem to
find anything else in the manual.
Anyone know if it's possible to read that value? TX ESSB is another one.
MP turns it on/off, but not sure how to read the bandwidth setting.

73 N9PBJ
-Dave
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[David Patino]

I'll answer my own question.

Once that menu setting is active, DS; command will return what the
display is showing.

-Dave


On 5/20/2014 3:53 PM, David Patino wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> So some of the menu options have a basic setting, ie on/off, but then
> an extended setting as well. For example the Alarm menu:
> MN000;
> When read with MP; it will only report if the alarm is on or not (Bit
> 4 on / off)
> you can turn it on or off by changing that bit with MP, and you can
> change the hours/minutes setting (after sending the right SWT command)
> using UP; or DN;, but is there any way to read what time the alarm is
> set to?
>
> The programming reference says "(In some cases, more than one value
> can be accessed for a given menu entry via the numeric keys;
> see menu listing in manual.)"
>
> All the manual says for the alarm menu is:
> Num 1 turns the alarm on/off
> Num 2 select hours
> Num 3 selects minutes
>
> None of these change what is reported by MP though and I can't seem to
> find anything else in the manual.
> Anyone know if it's possible to read that value? TX ESSB is another
> one. MP turns it on/off, but not sure how to read the bandwidth setting.
>
> 73 N9PBJ
> -Dave
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