Jeff Breitner wrote:
On 6/12/16 2:10 PM, Greg D wrote:
Whenever I use Gpredict with my 847, I need to set the refresh rate to about 5 seconds (5,000 ms). Never understood why, but updating too often quickly ends up with a hang. This is on a Linux system with a real serial port (not USB). I'm using "rigctld -m 101 -r /dev/ttyS0 -t 4532 -v -s 57600" as the run string for the rig control process.
Good luck,
Greg KO6TH
Yeah, I have to set it to no more than 2000ms or it causes Gpredict to cough and gasp. Gpredict has multithreading, but the writes to the rig control appear to be blocking. I don't think it matters much, the radio can only take the data so fast anyway.
The radio works fine with any of the desktops I use, it just won't work with any of my portable computers. Confirmed exact drivers in Windows, sniffed the ports in Linux and hooked up a 'scope to watch the waveforms. Created test programs to try to look for buffering issues. Nothing is a smoking gun...'cept maybe that these USB->Serial converters are just good enough to work with (maybe) better chipsets that are on these desktop motherboards. Dunno.
I have a GearMo adapter showing up this week. If it works, great, if not this smaller desktop will be what I use.
What is so puzzling is that, it worked with everything up until a few weeks ago.
Thanks,
Jeff _______________________________________________
Grounding?
Just a wild thought. What else could be different?
Greg KO6TH