Halibut Electronics is proud to announce the re-release of the serial-port based HaliKey v1, renamed to HaliKey Serial to more clearly differentiate it from HaliKey MIDI.
Both variations of HaliKey allow you to connect your morse code paddles, or PTT switch, to a computer for remote operation:
Some software on your computer expects a serial port and flow control signals, and other software expects MIDI Note On/Off events. Each variant of HaliKey works with the relevant software.
HaliKey Serial uses serial flow control signals like CTS and DSR.
HaliKey MIDI uses MIDI Note On/Note Off events.
Here’s a table of the applications I know about, and which ones support which HaliKeys:
| Product: | Flex SmartSDR for Windows | Marcus & Jan Roskosch apps (like SmartSDR for MacOS) | Marcus & Jan Roskosch apps (like SmartSDR for iOS) | NetKeyer for all platforms | Remote Ham Radio | Software Defined Connectors (SDC) | QK4 |
| HaliKey MIDI | No (Use NetKeyer) | PTT + Morse | PTT + Morse | PTT + Morse | PTT + Morse | PTT + Morse | PTT + Morse |
| HaliKey Serial | PTT Only | PTT + Morse | No | PTT + Morse | No | PTT + Morse | PTT + Morse |
If you know of another application that should be in this table, please let me know.
Note that the new HaliKey Serial is exactly the same hardware as HaliKey v1, but with a hard plastic case instead of the blue heatshrink that v1 came in.
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@mark you could have done the funniest cursed thing and had one pair of the USB-C do serial and one do MIDI.