New app for Mac SmartSDR and MacLoggerDX users: FlexSpotBridge

K3CDY

There's a SmartSDR for Windows feature that's missing from Mac SmartSDR. Namely, clicking on a spot does not send that spot information from the app to your logging program.

I use the popular MacLoggerDX (MLDX), and simply wanted to click a spot, and squirt that to MLDX, which would do a lookup. (I'm lazy and type as little as possible.)

This is now possible with FlexSpotBridge for macOS. It's a small standalone companion app that bridges the Mac SmartSDR → MacLoggerDX gap, amongst other things, including:

• Optional automatic mode switching based on band-plan ranges
• Optional duplicate-spot cleanup using a configurable duplicate frequency threshold (Hz)
• Optional Auto-Dupe Elimination Threshold to mirror the current Flex filter bandwidth
• Optional automatic removal of old spots by age
• Custom spot colors and backgrounds, configurable based on age
• Clickable color swatches with native macOS color picker integration
• Independent toggles for updating spot text color and background color
• GUI window with live log output
• User-adjustable settings (radio IP/port and behavior toggles)
• Menu bar integration with Preferences and Clear All Spots (⌘L)

Here's a couple screenshots:

It's free and available here: https://github.com/williamscody/FlexSpotBridge

Build instructions for an executable app are in the Readme. Created using Visual Studio Code + GitHub CoPilot.

KD0RC

WOW - Nicely done Bill!

ct1drb

Hello all,

I hope everyone well.

I followed instructions to compile app and I am not lucky, when I double-click I get following information:

In command line I get following information:

ct1drb@Mac-mini FlexSpotBridge % dist/FlexSpotBridge.app 

zsh: permission denied: dist/FlexSpotBridge.app

ct1drb@Mac-mini FlexSpotBridge % 

Computer is a Mac mini M4 with macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 (a).

Best 73 es tks.

CT1DRB/OK8RB

David Quental

WW4GA

FlexSpotBridge v1.1.0-beta.3 installed but does not appear to communicate with MacLoggerDX.