Good questions that deserve a list reply. The ability to use different data folders (that contain the PowerSDR database) is not hardware specific. So yes, a FLEX-3000 folder will work too. BUT there is a caveat with a FLEX-3000 and a FLEX-5000 on the same PC. When using one, the other can NOT be powered up at the same time. PowerSDR has no way to tell (enumerate) between two Firewire based FLEX-x000 SDRs connected to the same PC and powered up at the same time.
OK. Here is where things get a little sticky. If a database is used by two different Firewire based SDRs (either a F3K and a F5K or two different F5Ks or 3Ks), the database architecture is close enough that they are interchangeable. PowerSDR will just update its information from the radio's EEPROM and all is well. This is not the case with a FLEX-1500 and a Firewire based FLEX-x000. Once a database is initialized (used) with a FLEX-1500, there can be problems using it with a FLEX-x000 (and the converse is true too.) Therefore when you setup a FLEX-1500 database, I would not transfer the STATE data to it from a FLEX-x000 database using Ray's utility unless Ray has validated that STATE data can be transfer from a FLEX-x000 database to a FLEX-1500 database without any problems. This situation is known to the developers and there are discussions underway to mitigate this problem. What the final solution will be and when it will be available in PowerSDR v2.x is not known at this time. -Tim -----Original Message----- From: Don Sachnoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:12 AM To: Tim Ellison Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] PowerSDR 2.0.6 Beta Release This is good. I suspect the same holds true for the 3K - setup a folder for the 3K like the 1500 and 5K. Another question. I have my filters defined so if I use Ray's utility to copy the "state" information will this cause problems between the various dbs - 1500, 3K, and 5K - by copying data that could cause problems between the three platforms? thanks Don On 7/26/2010 8:43 AM, Tim Ellison wrote: > I am sending this response to the list since it may be informative to all > when have a FLEX-x000 and a FLEX-1500. > > The latest firmware version for FLEX-1500 users who DO NOT have the FLEX-5KVU > module installed (hardware beta testers) is 2.0.2.2. In the PowerSDR v2.0.6 > there was a FLEX-5000 firmware update v2.0.2.7 delivered, but it is not > required for the FLEX-5000 unless you have the VU module installed. > > You can run a FLEX-5000 and FLEX-1500 from the same PC at the same time. I > have been doing it since March 2010. It requires two separate data folders > that have databases specific for each radio. When you start PowerSDR 2.0.6 > you have to "tell" it what data folder to use using the new -datapath:[path] > runtime argument available with PowerSDR v2.x > > See the following KB article for details. > http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50469.aspx > > Just setup different desktop shortcuts for each radio pointing to a different > data path. > > This will be helpful too > http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50470.aspx > > -Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Sachnoff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:33 AM > To: Tim Ellison > Subject: Re: [FlexEdge] PowerSDR 2.0.6 Beta Release > > Tim > > Is firmware v 2.0.2.2 the latest for the F5K using the beta software? I > seem to recall v 2.0.2.4 being mentioned somewhere. > > It appears I cannot run the 1500 off the same db as the F5K which means > I need to keep two and perhaps three different dbs - 1500, F3K, and the > F5K. Is this correct or did I miss something? Since I am running XP > the db is kept in a folder called C:\Documents and > Settings\don\Application Data\FlexRadio Systems\ PowerSDR v2.0.6. Since > all three devices will look at the same location for the db I have a > problem as I have to rename the db. Is this the way it is supposed to work? > > Don > > _______________________________________________ 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 beta versions of the software.
