SNR Measurement Issue, Perhaps? [fixed in v1.811]
I was playing around with my old KiwiSDR's settings and noticed that the SNR measurement routine stopped working after one change. I have eight receiver channels set up, with six used for monitoring FT8 and WSPR transmissions on 15, 12 and 10 metres, so two are free. The SNR measurements routine worked fine until I changed one thing, then whenever the SNR measurement (automatic or manual) was attempted, the Kiwi log said that all channels were busy! The only thing that I had done was to disable the waterfalls/spectrum. Once I reenabled it, the SNR measurements returned to normal operation (automatic or manual). Why this affects the SNR measurement routine is strange, especially the "error" message saying that all channels were busy instead of perhaps "waterfalls/spectrum disabled". Why the SNR measurements routine requires this to be enabled or doesn't display an appropriate "error" message when it's not has me puzzled. It's a bug, I suppose...but perhaps not?
Comments
Yes, a bug. SNR measurement should ignore the "no waterfall" setting since it doesn't consume any Internet bandwidth which is what the no waterfall setting is intending to save.
Okay, I fixed this. Wasn't too bad. Will be in the next release.
Will allow any future internal extensions that use the waterfall to work also (currently our WSPR and FT8 internal extensions only use the audio stream).
Thank you, sir. I wasn't quite sure, but the log file seemed to confirm it because of the "error" message given. 73.