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Maestro C crashes when spinning VFO

Paul Christy
Paul Christy Member ✭✭
in Maestro

I have a peculiar issue. Every once in awhile when I give the Maestro VFO A knob a good spin, the Maestro just crashes. Sometimes it just disconnects from the network and reconnects by itself. Other times I have to actually reboot the Maestro with the power button. Has anyone else seen this behavior?

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  • W7NGA
    W7NGA Member ✭✭✭
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    Yikes! That is poor engineering. Any form of user interaction that crashes the system should be investigated and changes made. I am glad my iPad doesn't have a warning label to not swipe or scroll with vigor! 😳

    W7NGA

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  • Mike-VA3MW
    Mike-VA3MW Administrator, FlexRadio Employee, Community Manager, Super Elmer, Moderator admin

    Which version of Maestro and what version of SSDR?

    When you do that, you are sending a TON of commands to the radio in a hurry as that is not really what it was designed for. It is possible the NIC card in the Maestro can't keep up.

  • Paul Christy
    Paul Christy Member ✭✭

    Ok. Well that makes sense. It's kind of like the behavior I see due to my presumed network problems we're talking about in the other threads. But sounds like this is completely unrelated. I'll try to throttle down my VFO spinning :)… Thanks!

  • Paul Christy
    Paul Christy Member ✭✭

    Maestro A, 4.1.5, but pretty sure it's been happening on my brand new Maestro C also. At this point it is becoming clear that this also occurs intermittantly with a fairly normal tuning rate. Is this a known problem or is something wrong with the knob on both devices? It happens often enough to be annoying. At the moment I am having no network issues.issues.

  • Paul Christy
    Paul Christy Member ✭✭

    Turns out it was ALL TGXL firmware version 1.2.17. Downgraded to 1.2.11 and almost all my problems went away. Network is handling VFO spinning with no problem. I think the VFO data rate thing is an old ham's tale. HOWEVER, now Maestro A ATU button no longer works. But it works on Maestro C. It's always something.

  • Paul Christy
    Paul Christy Member ✭✭

    Anybody hear any more since the last post? Actually had to go all the way down to 1.1.20. Here's the last I heard from HelpDesk. Pretty sure I shouldn't have to pay to have this addressed…

    I am going to ask Dave De **** to look at this.  He is our resident expert on TGXL interfacing with Flex Radios. He may need to schedule a Paid FlexAdvantage session to log in to your computer and look at things.

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