Re: zBITX Crashes - Suspect Memory Leak
#zbitx
Jody, I see something similar, though the sbitx program seems to keep running. After a while (anywhere between 15 minutes and an hour) the tcp connection dies. I had the web interface running and an
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Frank Waarsenburg
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Re: New zBitx - New User - CW operation
Hi Gordon, yes I have been following Jody¡¯s efforts pretty closely. As someone who worked in real time embedded systems for most of my career, I have no doubt the CW timing issue is fixable. Jody
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Steve Sutterer AK0M
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Re: zBITX Crashes - Suspect Memory Leak
#zbitx
3:26pm #118174 ( /g/BITX20/message/118174 ) I have used htop and top to track memory usage. ?The original 32bit software would have memory usage grow and then reset back to the
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Evan Hand
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Re: zBITX Crashes - Suspect Memory Leak
#zbitx
I wondered why the zBitx crashed after some time... Makes sense, because the PI Zero 2W would NOT work as a 'normal' internet browsing setup, after a few minutes and some websites past, the memory
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pd0zz@...
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Re: Availability?
is there a list we can get on? do we have a round about cost? want to get in and hopefully get these before the 90 day pause is lifted
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Phillip Ramirez
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Re: zBITX Crashes - Suspect Memory Leak
#zbitx
My go-to for debugging this sort of thing is valgrind, but that's likely to be really slow when running on the actual hardware (and may have memory issues given the small headroom?). I've been meaning
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Grant Brown
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Re: zBITX Crashes - Suspect Memory Leak
#zbitx
I¡¯m not sure how One tests for this? Do you write a small program that every five minutes asks for various amounts of space and reports which ones it was able to be given? And then just watch it? Or
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Gordon Gibby KX4Z
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zBITX Crashes - Suspect Memory Leak
#zbitx
After letting my zBITX sit unattended in Receive Mode for a while, the main RasPi CPU crashes.? I have never timed it because I'm not just sitting there watching it.? But it seems like it only takes
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Jody - K3JZD
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Re: Order # 3869 April 2
mine was order #3783 placed on April first.? I received it May 12th without and import/tariff issues to the USA.
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Cory Lytle KO4SWI
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Re: Order # 3869 April 2
Yes. My bad. Time goes by so quickly when getting older - except waiting for radio delivery. # 3869 (from April 2) is scheduled for DHL delivery on Fri 16 MAY.
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A Kiddoo
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Re: Z bitx poor sensitivity
I got my zbitx 2 days ago and only had about an hour to play with it.? I thought I understood receiver sensitivity, but not I'm questioning myself.? I tried to contact my dad on 80, 40, and 20
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Cory Lytle KO4SWI
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Re: Order # 3869 April 2
Assume you meant may 16th... "POWER, WE DONT NEED NO STINKIN' POWER" - Every KX2 Owner Always respect the air waves, 73 de KI7PBR, Gary
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Gary-KI7PBR
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Update On Shipping Delays from HF Signals
I ordered my zBitx on April 3rd, 6 weeks ago.? I sent sales an email and got this response "Right now, we expect your order(#3941) to ship by early next week. We ran into some unexpected hiccups with
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Gary-KI7PBR
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
I wrote a Makefile in https://github.com/ec1oud/sbitx/commit/f156ccb2f1b9347ac69f1f1464bb868f5dda75c9 and made further changes in
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Shawn Rutledge K7IHZ / LB2JK
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Re: zbitx, compiler optimizations
#zbitx
Peter, I've been looking at your note again about time spent in i2c_delay. It is a simple busy-wait loop that waits a constant 400 'delayTicks' (set in i2cbb.c). I put some timing code in for debug
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Mike Johnshoy
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Re: zBITX CW Mode - Proof of Concept
That seems like a pretty rapid voltage drawdown.? ?There are lots of crappy 18650 batteries out there.? ?The ones promising a very high capacity seem to be the worst.? I bought 2 from Amazon that
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Jody - K3JZD
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Re: zBITX CW Mode - Proof of Concept
yes I do have a delay of 1000ms. my batteries are rated 5000ma, and I see a drastic voltage? drop within minutes of using the radio on a fully charge batteries. (from 8.4 to 7.3 to 6.9) IDK if its
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miguel medina
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Re: zBITX CW Mode - Proof of Concept
Hi Miguel, Now I have mine running from a 7.5 vdc power supply., which about what 2 fully charged 18650's was providing.? ?I'm not having any erratic behavior problems at that voltage. I have been
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Jody - K3JZD
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Re: SBit V4 Thoughts
The current offering is to purchase a complete kit that includes a case, mic, RPi, and screen. ?The board only is just the board. ?There was a separate offering to upgrade the board only to the
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Evan Hand
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Re: SBit V4 Thoughts
At one point, when RPi boards were hard to come by, and HF Signals had to pay premiums to secure the boards we convinced them to sell radios without RPi boards (or displays) included at a reduced
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Ken N2VIP
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