I got tired of rig control software that looks like 2009, so I built a browser control head for my IC-7300 MK2.
A few months ago I realized the thing keeping me off the air wasn't the radio, it was being chained to the shack PC and software that looks like a VB6 app. So I built ShackNerd: a single small program that runs on the shack computer and turns every browser on your network into the radio:
What works today, all verified on the air with my 7300 MK2:
Spectrum and waterfall over the radio's Ethernet port, way faster than USB CAT can deliver
Full control: tuning that behaves like a real VFO knob on a phone screen, band memory, split, filters
Receive AND transmit audio. I checked into my local net from the couch on my phone. PTT has a watchdog so a dropped connection can never leave you keyed.
CW keyer with macros plus a decoder that I tuned against real off-air signals
FT8 through WSJT-X (it serves rigctld, so your digital software just points at it)
QSO log with ADIF export, and RBN spotting so a CQ shows you where you were heard
Remote operation over Tailscale with password sign-in and one-click HTTPS
The part that might interest this sub even if you never run it: Icom never documented how the network port works, so I wrote it down while building this. The handshake, login, audio streams, retransmission layer, all of it is published under CC BY 4.0 at shacknerd.com for any project to use, any license. And to be clear about the neighbors: wfview is a mature open source client for these radios and it's excellent. My provenance notes credit everything I studied. If you want free and open source desktop software, use wfview.
Honest status: this is early software, built by one ham, fully tested against exactly one radio. Which is where you come in. If you own an IC-705, 7610, or 9700, ShackNerd has a one-click "radio report" in Settings: a read-only snapshot of how your radio describes itself. It transmits nothing and changes nothing. One emailed file is most of what I need to support your model.
Free early access at shacknerd.com. I'll be in the comments all day.
73, W2NRD