New Flex, Issues with Smartsdr cat

gi4fue

Hi

I just took delivery of a second hand 6500. Installed SSDR 3.2.39 and ran the VSPE installer. Device manager shows 4 VSP's installed, but none show in the SmartSDR CAT window. If I install new VSP's they show up as they should. I have tried deleting the original 4 VSP's, and they will delete, but show up again on reboot. effectively they are unusable as they are not allocated to any device or slice. Any Ideas guys? Running 8th Gen Intel I7 nuc, and Win 11

73, Charlie GI4FUE

Mike-VA3MW

Hi

There is no requirement to use a VSPE at all as SmartSDR CAT has those features.

You can use a VSPE but those will not show up in SmartSDR CAT.

Go into SmartSDR CAT and ADD the ports you required. The Add.. is in the bottom left.

Mike

gi4fue

Hi Mike

I think we are talking at cross purposes. when i said I ran the VSPE installer, I meant the fabulatech one in the SSDR directory. when I checked in device manager, there were 4 pairs coms 3&103, 4&104 10&110 and 20&120. These do not appear in SSDR Cat. I have uninstalled them and they now show under unknown devices as FabulaTech_virtualPorts 02,03,09,19,102,103,109&119. I have successfully created other Cat/PTT etc pairs, but cannot get rid of these ones to free up the comport addresses

73, Charlie GI4FUE

gi4fue

like this

gi4fue

This was after deleting all the unknown devices and then reinstalling FlexVSP. I had previously created com's 19 & 21, but get message saying serial port failed to save

gi4fue

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gi4fue

I think I have found the solution.......i followed the instructions in this post...https://community.flexradio.com/discussion/comment/19718961#Comment_19718961

Now working as expected - no mention that i can find in the documentation though

73, Charlie