From 44672cc2a4f14acaba5960b63b16b904e6de642b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <ram@rkrishnan.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 15:49:08 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] send a custom PING message once serial port is opened

---
 rigctl.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rigctl.c b/rigctl.c
index 3c08035..6c181db 100644
--- a/rigctl.c
+++ b/rigctl.c
@@ -4152,6 +4152,11 @@ int launch_serial() {
     g_print("g_thread_new failed on serial_server\n");
     return 0;
   }
+
+  // send a PING message
+  char *ping = "PING";
+  send_resp(serial_client->fd, ping);
+
   return 1;
 }
 
-- 
2.45.2