so ive been running a remote station for about 8 months now using a mix of stuff — RigCtl talking to my IC-7300 over a VPN tunnel, audio through mumble, and PTT via a GPIO line on a raspberry pi. it works but its janky and every few weeks something breaks and i have to either drive out there or bug my neighbor to reboot something.

anyway i started looking at RemoteHams because a buddy mentioned it handles a lot of the reconnection and session management stuff automatically and also has that SDR remote component so you can run a panadapter alongside the main rig. curious if anyone here has actually used it for more than just occasional playing around. like does the SDR side actually sync up properly with the transceiver tuning or is it just kind of a separate window you have to manage yourself.

also the internet linking piece — im assuming this means like you can tie in echolink or IRLP style nodes through the same interface? or is that something totally different. the documentation on their site is not exactly written for clarity.

main thing i care about is reliability. i dont need bleeding edge features i just need the thing to stay up when im trying to work a DX pileup from 800 miles away from my antenna.

been running RemoteHams for maybe two years on a station at my cabin, IC-7610 plus an SDRPlay RSP1A hanging off the same coax via a splitter. the SDR side does actually track the VFO — not perfectly instantaneously but close enough that you can see signals pop up on the panadapter before you tune to them which is the whole point. there's a bit of latency obviously, probably 200-300ms behind the rig depending on your connection, but for casual use its fine.

the reconnection stuff is genuinely better than rolling your own. when my ISP at the cabin drops out and comes back it usually reconnects without me doing anything. had maybe two or three times in two years where i had to actually log in and restart the server side service and one of those was after a power outage ate my config.

the internet linking thing i think youre thinking of is their gateway/node system which lets other operators connect to your station, its not really echolink in the traditional sense. more like a shared remote access thing. i dont use that part so cant speak to it much.

honestly the SDR sync is the part that sold me on it too but i will say the audio latency on the RemoteHams client can be annoying if your internet isnt super stable. i had it running over a connection that had like 80ms average ping and it was totally fine but a friend tried it over a satellite link and said it was nearly unusable for SSB, just too much delay to have a real conversation. CW was okay apparently.

never dug into the internet linking docs myself, got curious now though