Flex 6xxx monitoring audio over remote

Robert Rawson

K1UO Larry

Robert Rawson

Mark WS7M

It is your default windows playback device.  You need to set it to either your headphones or your speakers, down in the lower right of windows task bar.

K1UO Larry

Doug Hall

Robert,
For some reason the default playback device sometimes gets set to the wrong device when SmartSDR is installed. Probably more specifically when DAX is installed. Open the Sound control panel and find your speakers, click on them, and then click Set Default as shown below:



73,
Doug K4DSP

Robert Rawson

Hi guys I tried to set in the windows sound settings to pc speaker but the box is still grayed out. I’ll persevere and update when I can. Thanks Robert

Russ Locke

Neal Pollack, N6YFM

Larry Loen WO7R

Doug Hall

I must respectfully disagree. Granted, I have not done detailed A/B comparisons, but running wsjt-x on my PC at work with SmartLink back to my Flex at home has yielded satisfactory results, at least from my point of view. Certainly good enough to work some new ones when they were on.  I do have fast pipes at both locations, and fairly low latency between both sites.

Has your experience been different?

73,
Doug K4DSP

Ray - K6LJ

Hi Larry - I have been using FT8 from Taiwan and China for the last couple of months remotely and yes I get a dropouts once in a while but it works great. I use neither Teamviewer or TightVNC and I have audio as well plugged into my headset. but mostly turned down all the time. Usually after changing an audio configuration on the laptop I have to log off then back in to get it working after making the change. 73 RFay

Larry Loen WO7R

My experience (over several years now) is that even with high speed bandwidth, latency can be variable.

It can be great for months at a time, and then something changes and it goes bad.  Or, it goes bad at the congested times of day (e.g. early evening).  Your "internet speed test" (even from fairly remote locations to both sites) can show good results, but your latency issues can still defeat you.  It is perhaps a little better on digital, but even small latency problems can render CW, in particular, extremely marginal.

I have friends with a non-Flex remote site who have recently concluded the same thing.  They are going to run their digital on the machine next to their rig, too.

So, a few A/B tests don't prove much.  I don't know what the end of "net neutrality" is going to mean over time, but I have found my installation very sensitive to change and more is coming and change happened often enough before that.

I've had to work with my ISP techs a couple of times to get satisfactory performance.  If you have interests like contesting or DXing, I suggest that you really can't tolerate these problems erupting when you least expect it.  I use CWX a lot to make sure CW (on the sending side, at least) stays good.

Steven WA8Y

Only Windows Pro, using Remote Desktop will send audio.

Robert Rawson

Hi Guys, Thanks to all those that replied. The issue was a sound card driver being lost after the recent windows update. I can now hear audio remotely. Robert M0RCX