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I have updated the to version 0.11.7.? This has a number of enhancements as well as bugfixes.
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NOTE: This release requires the updated config database QtTSAprefs.db and is not backwards-compatible with earlier database versions.
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- Much faster stopping on slow sweeps when 'stop' is pressed.
- Measurement Fn uses the new scanraw auto-repeat option, but is backwards compatible with firmware older than 1.4.177.? It scans significantly faster except on slow scans, where there is only a small speed improvement.
- Zero span now working as well as it can without re-coding or the ability to control triggering and sweep speed.
- Detect if there are several connected tinySA, and allow choosing the one to use in 'preferences' dialogue (request by Herb Walker).
- Can set the maximum scan frequency above default of 6GHz in 'preferences' dialogue (request by @ashjmckenzie ).
- 'Max' trace is now permanent hold until scanning stopped/restarted, instead of a decaying max (request by @CliveTombs).
- Marker min/max detection frequency boundary lines added (request by @CliveTombs).
- Sync Time to PC Time setting, AverageBox & Sample repeat added to config database so now remember setting.
- Removed padding from the GUI display to make more screen room for scan.
- Set Scan to Graph button (<>) added.? Display can be moved/zoomed with mouse drag and then scan set to that by pressing the button.
- Clicking a marker centres the sweep freq onto that marker.
- Units on freq axis now set automatically (changed preferences database to Hz instead of MHz).
I will update the QtTinySA Wiki with some info on how to save existing preset frequencies/markers, update them to Hz and import to the new database.? Unless someone else beats me to it :-)
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Ian G4IXT
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I seem to be functionally illiterate when it comes to github. Please excuse my ineptitude but... what do I want to download after I follow the link in the OP? I snagged this app once, but darned if I can remember how.?
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Rick
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Rick,
the start of the wiki explains what to do, at . For Windows the executable is held in file? QtTinySA.zip at . (The Linux executable is within file QtTinySA.tar.gz, the WIki instructions assume that is obvious.)
It's never a bad idea to write a short note to oneself—electronic or paper—to minimise future frustration.
73, Good Luck,
Robin, G8DQX
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On 03/09/2024 16:08, Richard B. Emerson wrote: I seem to be functionally illiterate when it comes to github. Please excuse my ineptitude but... what do I want to download after I follow the link in the OP? I snagged this app once, but darned if I can remember how.
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Rick
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Gotit - thanks!
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Rick
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@Ian G4IXT - for those of us who view github as obscure, user hostile, and generally a massive time-sink, please mention in your notice of an update your executables can be found by following the link in a small section of the [main? code?] page marked "Releases". Following the Wiki link is fine for once the executables are downloaded, but otherwise is a flow dead end when it comes to getting the executables.?
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Rick
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Rick,
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That's a good point and I will try to remember to link to 'releases' instead next time.
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There is another enhancement in this version that I forgot to mention which is a bit surprising as it took me a long time to get right: I changed the way the GUI screen is updated by the measurement thread.? Previously it was updated every 20 measurements, so the update rate varied and for very fast sweeps could cause the GUI to freeze.? Now it is a fixed rate and set in the 'preferences' dialogue in mS and there is a 'update rate indicator' at the bottom left of the main screen.? I find that 50mS works quite well.
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Ian
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Glad to be of help.
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The GUI update tweak, removing an apparent freeze, sounds like a winner!
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Rick
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Thanks for this Ian, really?appreciate it,
Question about the scanned above 6G, I set a higher value and restarted the binary, and the preferences dialogue jumps back to 6000, is there something I'm doing wrong?
Appreciate your time
On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 9:48?AM Ian Jefferson via <ian.jefferson= [email protected]> wrote: I have updated the to version 0.11.7.? This has a number of enhancements as well as bugfixes.
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NOTE: This release requires the updated config database QtTSAprefs.db and is not backwards-compatible with earlier database versions.
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- Much faster stopping on slow sweeps when 'stop' is pressed.
- Measurement Fn uses the new scanraw auto-repeat option, but is backwards compatible with firmware older than 1.4.177.? It scans significantly faster except on slow scans, where there is only a small speed improvement.
- Zero span now working as well as it can without re-coding or the ability to control triggering and sweep speed.
- Detect if there are several connected tinySA, and allow choosing the one to use in 'preferences' dialogue (request by Herb Walker).
- Can set the maximum scan frequency above default of 6GHz in 'preferences' dialogue (request by @ashjmckenzie ).
- 'Max' trace is now permanent hold until scanning stopped/restarted, instead of a decaying max (request by @CliveTombs).
- Marker min/max detection frequency boundary lines added (request by @CliveTombs).
- Sync Time to PC Time setting, AverageBox & Sample repeat added to config database so now remember setting.
- Removed padding from the GUI display to make more screen room for scan.
- Set Scan to Graph button (<>) added.? Display can be moved/zoomed with mouse drag and then scan set to that by pressing the button.
- Clicking a marker centres the sweep freq onto that marker.
- Units on freq axis now set automatically (changed preferences database to Hz instead of MHz).
I will update the QtTinySA Wiki with some info on how to save existing preset frequencies/markers, update them to Hz and import to the new database.? Unless someone else beats me to it :-)
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Ian G4IXT
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Does not run in debian bookworm (debian 12.7):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "QtTinySA.py", line 27, in <module>
ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /tmp/_MEIDTQOLD/libX11.so.6)
[194103] Failed to execute script 'QtTinySA' due to unhandled exception!
73,
Uli DF7SC
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On 2024-09-02 23:48, Ian Jefferson via groups.io wrote: I have updated the QtTinySA PC App ( ) to version 0.11.7.? This has a number of enhancements as well as bugfixes.
*NOTE: This release requires the updated config database QtTSAprefs.db and is not backwards-compatible with earlier database versions.*
* Much faster stopping on slow sweeps when 'stop' is pressed.
* Measurement Fn uses the new scanraw auto-repeat option, but is backwards compatible with firmware older than 1.4.177.? It scans significantly faster except on slow scans, where there is only a small speed improvement.
* Zero span now working as well as it can without re-coding or the ability to control triggering and sweep speed.
* Detect if there are several connected tinySA, and allow choosing the one to use in 'preferences' dialogue (request by Herb Walker).
* Can set the maximum scan frequency above default of 6GHz in 'preferences' dialogue (request by @ashjmckenzie ).
* 'Max' trace is now permanent hold until scanning stopped/restarted, instead of a decaying max (request by @CliveTombs).
* Marker min/max detection frequency boundary lines added (request by @CliveTombs).
* Sync Time to PC Time setting, AverageBox & Sample repeat added to config database so now remember setting.
* Removed padding from the GUI display to make more screen room for scan.
* Set Scan to Graph button (<>) added.? Display can be moved/zoomed with mouse drag and then scan set to that by pressing the button.
* Clicking a marker centres the sweep freq onto that marker.
* Units on freq axis now set automatically (changed preferences database to Hz instead of MHz).
I will update the QtTinySA Wiki with some info on how to save existing preset frequencies/markers, update them to Hz and import to the new database.? Unless someone else beats me to it :-)
Ian G4IXT
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Please report any issues in the QtTinySA github 'issues' page and not here.
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Uli, this will likely be something missing or the wrong version in you installation.? I don't have Debian but use the derivative Kubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, and Bookworm-based PiOS and it works on all of those.
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The wikis may give you a clue.
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https://github.com/g4ixt/QtTinySA/wiki/Raspberry-Pi-OS12
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Ian
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Hi Ian, thank you for the reply, Please report any issues in the QtTinySA github 'issues' page and not here.
I did that a few minutes ago. Uli, this will likely be something missing or the wrong version in you installation.? I don't have Debian but use the derivative Kubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, and Bookworm-based PiOS and it works on all of those.
I dont't think that there is something wrong with my linux installation. Debian stable uses glibc 2.36. QtTinySA linux executable v0.10.6 is running fine here. Is the QtTinySA linux executable v0.10.7 really running in your Kubuntu 22.04? Ubuntu 22.04 ("jammy") uses glibc 2.35. 73 Uli DF7SC
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Hi Ash,
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The configuration database is not updated unless a tinySA is connected when you change the preferences value.? This is unintentional and I will fix it - I will add it as an issue to the Github .
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Regarding problems running on Ubuntu 22.04 (etc) I didn't realise I hadn't tested this after I upgraded all my PCs to 24.04 and built the executable on 24.04.? I will find a way to build a 22.04 compatible executable and add it to the 'releases' when I can.
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Ian
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Uli,
I am running latest version here with no problem on bookworm (Debian 12), I use the git repo.
simon@delboy:~/workspace/QtTinySA$ ldd --version
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.36-9+deb12u8) 2.36
Hope it helps your fault finding.
Simon
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In the Windows executable when you look at the contents of the SDcard (File/Browse TinySA), if you select a .bmp file you see it on the screen, this is fine, but when you select another bmp file, the screen shows you the previous bmp file seen, and Save, it also saves the previous one seen. Does this happen to everyone or is there something I'm doing wrong?
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Thanks,
Toni
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Yes Toni,
V0.11.7 and v0.10.6 only show the top bmp
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To access files on microSD? I use NanoVNA-app v 1.1215.0 (mod from DiSlord).
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Thankyou André, I'll use it.
Toni
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v0.11.7 fixed the bug from the previous version where it didn't display the .BMP files correctly.? It should now show any .BMP files that you click on.? I can't check at the moment as I don't have my tinySA with me but I tested the fix a few times.
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Ian
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Ian
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It only shows the top BMP one (on several PC's , made new screenshots on empty card).
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Hope this helps, André
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André and Ian,
Always show the first bmp you opened, even if it's not the top one. And when you save, save the content of this first opened file with the filename of the one you tried to view or save.
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Hope this helps,
Toni
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Hi Tony,
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Now that I am back from holiday I have created for this bug and I will fix it.? Thanks to everyone who confirmed the problem on their systems.
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Ian
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Richard B. Emerson