The problem is that the current control interface to any 3rd party program is through "CAT", which simply doesn't provide access to the Flex' unique capabilities. It was designed for Knobby Radios, and does a pretty impressive job in that world. But in the Flex SDR world, it's limited.
E.G., there is no way for N1MM to say via CAT "put the text "K3FIV - Mult!" on the PSDR panadaptor at 14.236 in bold red font" Nor is there any way to tell PSDR "set up a filter from 600 to 2300 Hz" (instead of 200 to 2100) to mask out QRM from a strong station slightly lower in frequency than a target station. Similarly, the CAT interface doesn't have a mechanism for PSDR to supply the current panafall display to the 3rd party program to integrate with th3e 3rd party program's own GUI display. Knobby radios can't do such things, so it's not in the interface. So, right now neither program can deliver all the power of the software and Flex architecture in a single GUI. The 3rd party interface - CAT - is the main limitation. A 3rd party programmer simply cannot write the code to use a Flex capability that the CAT interface doesn't make available. Hopefully, DI will have a new interface which is rich enough so that these kinds of things are possible and intriguing, and attract 3rd party SW developers to write the appropriate code. I wouldn't be surprised to see a "PowerContester" program with a GUI, interfaced to DI for all the neat signal processing functionality, where DI has no GUI active at all. We just have to be patient... Hmmm, I used to do real-time programming, many many moons ago.... 73, /Jack de K3FIV On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 18:52 -0700, Don wrote: > I'm not much of a contester, but it seems to me that this is where a 3rd > party software company should shine. > Why not contact the "N1MM" authors or whomever ? and tell them that there is > a market out there. > For me I can wait 1 or 2 (3) years for Flex's (DI), but if you're in a > hurry - hmmm... > > kd6hq > > > _______________________________________________ > Flexedge mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz > This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used > for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist > who are using alpha and beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
