networking bug

WQ5C

This is easy to recreate. Start with SSDR (1.0.0) not running, and a 6500 not connected to the network. 1. Start SSDR. 2. Plug in the network cable. 3. After a few seconds, SSDR will see the 6500 and show it is available. At this point if you try to start the radio, there is a delay of a few seconds before SSDR starts. Once it does start, there is no RX, and "+RX" is grayed out. Simply restarting SSDR gets the same results. You have to power cycle the 6500 with it connected to the network to get it working again. --Mike, WQ5C

Tim - W4TME

This isn't a network issue. It is an issue related to "orphaned" radio resources. Does this happen all the time? Does your PC go to sleep or hibernates when SmartSDR is running? The ray to mitigate this issue is to power cycle the radio and that will release the orphaned radio resources.

K2CM

Seems to me that this is sorta an "installation issue". Mike. I can understand that this might occur during installation; however, once the F6.5K is installed, this issue should not occur again. I would think that describing this possible phenomena in the installation instructions would be sufficient to handle this problem. In my case, the F6.7K never gets disconnected from the network; thus, I have never seen this problem.

WQ5C

It happens whenever I power up the radio without the network cable attached. I've been disconnecting the cable, as well as the antennas, whenever a thunderstorm rolls through. I've had lightning-induced EMF get into a long CAT5 run going out to the shack & take out various network devices.

Tim - W4TME

The network cable *must* be connected before you power up the radio in order for it to initialize properly.

Asher - K0AU

Hope the networking gets better in the next few releases. I run my network switch and 6k off the same power supply. I have to wait for the switch to boot - about 20 seconds - before I press the power button on the 6k.

Guenter, DK1RI

I guess, that the network acces method will be modified, when the F6k will be accesible via Internet directly (and not via local networks only). I hope, that I did not missunderstodd, that this is a feature for a later version. Guenter

Tim - W4TME

As per the original topic of this post, the software is working as designed, so it is being designated as "not a bug". If the network is not active (link established) when the radio is booted, you may not be able to access radio resources, such as panadapters and creating slices. With the current version of SmartSDR, you must have the network cable connected and the radio seeing link before your boot up the radio. Changes to the current networking behavior, such as connecting the Ethernet cable after the radio boots up should be entered as an Idea topic.