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Sticky Radioddity support form - issues, bugs, suggestions, new feature requests, etc #bugs #firmware #report #radioddity #newfeatures

CT2FZI
 

Hello team,

Radioddity has provided us an online form where we can all report issues, bugs, suggestions, new feature requests, etc.

Please feel free to use:?

Radioddity is listening to this community!

Cheers and nice QSOs,

Luis CT2FZI
 

Well said Luis!
 

Hi Luis, would it be possible to ask Xiegu to insert in the firmware a battery protection mode that maintains the charge around 60% even when the radio is left connected to the external power source for long periods? Inserting this control is absolutely trivial as regards the need for changes to the source code (it is sufficient to check the charge level every few seconds and activate or deactivate the recharge based on whether the level is just above or just below 60%), but this simple addition would ensure a much longer battery life.

Federico
IZ0EYJ?
 

Hi Federico
Why 60% and not 30%?
 

Hi Lukas,
Laptops usually use protection that maintains a charge of 80% because having large-capacity batteries, the possible need to bring them to full charge starting from a lower level would lead to too long a waiting time.
On the other hand, my Lenovo Yoga Tab 13, which has charge times comparable to those of the 6100, adopts a battery protection level of 60% (±0.5%), and I imagine that before choosing this value, Lenovo has considered many factors .
In fact, a table published yesterday here in the group shows that maintaining it at 60% already guarantees a substantial extension of battery life compared to maintaining a full charge, an absolutely useless condition when the radio is not used as a portable system.
Christopher
 

Actually it's only fairly recent laptops which automatically or by user settings, constrain charging of the battery to nn% of full to 'preserve the battery life'.? Many out there don't.

In fact it's only my most recent, a two year old Legion 5 out of all I've used or owned (used countless in various jobs, owned about 5 ranging from a very early Zenith through an early DRC spec AMD64 HP based, through to more recently a HP quad core AMD based which I still use for radio stuff, currently a Legion 5 used predominantly not for gaming) that actually had such a feature, even the second oldest (five years old - used primarily for radio programming and data mode ops) didn't have any constraints beyond going to trickle mode charging after battery was fully charged.

Hell, even my old MacBook Pro (ten years old) didn't support it, and they were pretty much on the cutting edge at the time for battery maintenance. So it's safe to say it's only fairly recently (say within 3 years best case) in the mainstream and maybe some very high end older stuff that constrained battery charging for battery preservation.? Some ToughBook models did, and I mean older 'real' ToughBooks with the Ti construction.

I do, however, have a few external Li-Po and Li-Ion chargers designed for standalone laptop battery charging/conditioning that do support constrained 'less than full charge' maintenance charging, and those are about five years old - not intended for laptop users but for specialist test equipment that used commonly available laptop battery packs.

I've also possessed ex-professional market (IE military and suchlike) radio transceiver gear that did have such features, not for everyday use but mostly for when units were long-term stored for rapid deployment so kept on a maintenance charging setup, but could fast charge to 100% from about 60% maintenance charge very quickly.

So it's a case of some Li-Po/Li-Ion powered gear? do, some don't and sometimes non-laptops use laptop batteries which are maintenance charged with nn% constrained charging - uncommon examples include some of those professional portable ECG etc units that are essentially custom portable PC's.? Some professional test gear also uses constrained charging too, as well as a few uncommon in the West professional spec radios that used laptop battery packs (2-4x depending on their specific applied classification).

?The US spec medical portables I have picked up surplus faulty (intended to gut for parts and reuse the cases) had both constrained charging capability on the SLA and Li-Ion charge circuits - notable I sidelined those modules for reuse as combo items like that are uncommon and yet could be incredibly useful for portable radio power assemblies.? But given the units had defib functions, hardly surprising they are dual powered with auto changeover handling.

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, 10:15 federico.giampietro, <federico.giampietro@...> wrote:
Hi Lukas,
Laptops usually use protection that maintains a charge of 80% because having large-capacity batteries, the possible need to bring them to full charge starting from a lower level would lead to too long a waiting time.
On the other hand, my Lenovo Yoga Tab 13, which has charge times comparable to those of the 6100, adopts a battery protection level of 60% (±0.5%), and I imagine that before choosing this value, Lenovo has considered many factors .
In fact, a table published yesterday here in the group shows that maintaining it at 60% already guarantees a substantial extension of battery life compared to maintaining a full charge, an absolutely useless condition when the radio is not used as a portable system.

 

You're not very good at summarizing Christopher.
So... ?
Christopher
 

Maybe I'm not, but that's how I am, if you've an issue with it, disregard my posts - it's that simple.


On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, 17:22 federico.giampietro, <federico.giampietro@...> wrote:
You're not very good at summarizing Christopher.
So... ?

 

I sincerely hope there will be an answer to my request for an I/Q api or dll so the x6100 can be better supported in diverse SDR software programs.

73' Ron
ON2RON
Nick Marsh
 

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Don’t expect Xiegu to do that

Nick Marsh
WB4SQI

On Aug 27, 2023, at 6:16 AM, Ron Liekens <r.e.liekens@...> wrote:

?I sincerely hope there will be an answer to my request for an I/Q api or dll so the x6100 can be better supported in diverse SDR software programs.

73' Ron
ON2RON

 

Why not? Most other SDR hardware manufacturers do this quite willingly.

73' Ron
ON2RON
 
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Hi Can you Please ask Xiegu for The FM mode to be corrected and CTCSS Tones to be added , and mic TX EQ to be added in the Next Firmware as FM quality is not good?
Also add Bluetooth audio as the radio was Advertised with Bluetooth audio and sold as?having it, Most users Do want This fixed,
All of this working will help sales and make it a great radio as it should have been when sold,
Thanks Dave 2E0DMB
Curt M.
 

This was started in 2022 and I don’t believe that we have seen any part of the X6100 advance as a result of Radioddity starting the online form.?

Curt
 

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 08:42 PM, davebb123456 wrote:
Can you Please ask Xiegu for The FM mode to be corrected and CTCSS Tones to be added , and mic TX EQ to be added in the Next Firmware as FM quality is not good
We need to put pressure on them to hand over the sources from the STM32, then all the errors can be cleared out quickly enough.
 

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Even something as simple as the dreaded "RED" over "GREEN" text.?? Which was reported a few updates ago!

Rich

On 12/12/2023 6:13 AM, Curt M. wrote:

This was started in 2022 and I don’t believe that we have seen any part of the X6100 advance as a result of Radioddity starting the online form.?

Curt
 

CTCSS tones are not possible due to hardware limitations.
 

Oleg and Liekens have the right idea - get the source. Xiegu is done with the X6100. The only way forward now is to get as much of the source code from them as possible so that third party developers can continue and expand support. It's built on open source linux, and no one is going to undercut Xiegu on a similar radio - just open source the whole thing.?

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