[hpsdr] Help with Metis protocol please

John Melton john.d.melton at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 27 05:17:35 PDT 2013


Hi Bob

I told Phil about this problem with the wideband data a couple of weeks
ago. It is only a bug in the Metis code and not Hermes.

I have a fixed version of the Met is firmware if you want a copy? Phil is
going to put the fix in the next official release.

Regards,

-- John g0orx/n6lyt
 On Oct 27, 2013 11:34 AM, "Bob Cowdery" <bob at bobcowdery.plus.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> I'm debugging some problems on a new back-end. In order to eliminate the
> old versions of firmware I was using I upgraded to the latest releases.
> It didn't help so I'm going through with a fine tooth comb, and so
> starts a few questions.
>
> 1. When I installed the new firmware I was getting continuous sequence
> errors and found that a larger read buffer fixed it. I'm pretty sure
> this is due to the wide band bandscope throwing a lot more data at me
> (was 4K now 16K).
>
> 2. In order to just concentrate on the IQ data I wanted to turn off WB
> data but found I couldn't. According to the docs the Cmd byte bit 0
> turns on IQ and bit 1 turns on WB. However I seem to get both with any
> combination of bit 0 and 1 except 00 which gives me nothing. I also
> tried to selectively turn off WB by sending a stop command with Cmd byte
> 0x02 immediately after the start but that didn't work either.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> 73 Bob G3UKB
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