Some news in SDR world

Sergey R5AU

Next DDC radio vendor forward to the scenario without COM ports and VAC/Sound cards Expert Electronics( SunSDR radio) announced on GitHub TCI interface with code example https://github.com/maksimus1210/TCI some SW already support TCI

Milen KG2C

Sergey R5AU

This is our life. But simplification is a way out from headache, FRS was a first who proposed API, but world till now playing with CAT/COM/USB/SB/VAC etc....nightmare depends on Windows pack

Milen KG2C

Yes, Sergey. I agree that proliferation of these kinds of standards is inevitable. Still as an end-user I prefer it, to being stuck with the old standards where every little function needed its own cable and handshaking protocol, or even worse changing pins inside the case to change settings. I like that the modernization of such communications tends to effectively utilize the higher bandwidth cables available today.
As a programmer, it doesn't matter too much; I sort of expect that every manufacturer will completely ignore all other standards and cobble something together themselves that suits their specific hardware.