I'm using the Windows 10 Insider Previews, and in the last release, 14361 and current release, 14366, I'm having issues with the panadapter display. (I believe that I saw another question a few days ago, but can't find it now)
Everything works, except that I don't see the activity in the waterfall and spectrum in the pan adapter. I can hear, I can tune. When I move to a Win7 machine, it works.
It was working in the previous version, until I uninstalled to get the DAC a little happier, but once reinstalled, It's no longer happy. I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times, with no difference.
I've reset the 6300, I've removed the info in the roaming directory.
Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone else in the Windows Insider Preview having similar issues?
Everything works, except that I don't see the activity in the waterfall and spectrum in the pan adapter. I can hear, I can tune. When I move to a Win7 machine, it works.
It was working in the previous version, until I uninstalled to get the DAC a little happier, but once reinstalled, It's no longer happy. I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times, with no difference.
I've reset the 6300, I've removed the info in the roaming directory.
Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone else in the Windows Insider Preview having similar issues?
Posted 2 years ago
Tim - W4TME, Customer Experience Manager
For obvious reasons I cannot speak for Flex however I know of no production GA product, software product, that is supported on a non GA version of an operating system.
I'm not asking for official support here. This is a community forum. I'm bringing up an issue that I have and trying to see if others may be in the same boat.
As I mentioned, the version that I am on is about to become general availability, essentially a release candidate, which would mean that I would expect Flex to think about supporting it.
Am I complaining about it? No. Am I expecting a resolution to it? No. I know that it is prerelease software.
Is it something that may break SmartSDR for many people in less than 2 months? Possibly!
And with Windows 10 home edition, you don't have the ability to defer the upgrade. Are you ready for it to get deployed to you on Wednesday before a contest weekend? Evidently that's fine with you. Me? I'd like to see the problem addressed before it goes GA and breaks everyone.
As I mentioned, the version that I am on is about to become general availability, essentially a release candidate, which would mean that I would expect Flex to think about supporting it.
Am I complaining about it? No. Am I expecting a resolution to it? No. I know that it is prerelease software.
Is it something that may break SmartSDR for many people in less than 2 months? Possibly!
And with Windows 10 home edition, you don't have the ability to defer the upgrade. Are you ready for it to get deployed to you on Wednesday before a contest weekend? Evidently that's fine with you. Me? I'd like to see the problem addressed before it goes GA and breaks everyone.
Ed: Did you try Dave's firewall suggestion? That seems like a likely possibility. I've had some strange things happen here when I missed an alert from my firewall or accidentally blocked something. Not being so good with Windows I make sure I take myself off the net then disable the firewall to see if things change. If so, then I try to figure out which rule might be causing the problem.
Updated graphics drivers? Does the Windows Event Collector logs show anything useful?
Good luck.
Updated graphics drivers? Does the Windows Event Collector logs show anything useful?
Good luck.
David Decoons wo2x, Elmer
Ed,
This latest version (14366) is NOT the code that will be released soon. Publicly MS has stated they are going through a "bug squash hunt" so there are several things that may/will change in the code.
With that said, more than likely a firewall program is blocking the vita-49 data stream. Usually completely uninstalling and reinstalling SmartSDR will fix it but you may need to make exceptions in the firewall program for SmartSDR.
For anyone looking to upgrade to a new version of Windows 10 I suggest first deleting any virtual ports in SmartSDR CAT then completely uninstalling SmartSDR before rebooting and upgrading. Once upgraded reinstall SmartSDR and recreate the virtual ports. I've been using this method for testing each upgrade with good success.
As Others have mentioned, it is not advisable to run the beta builds on a production machine but if you want to run it to test knowing that something may break then have fun.
73
Dave wo2x
Kevin,
I indeed did try Dave's suggestions. I'm not running any 3rd part AV software, just the stock Microsoft firewall and AV. I can see the rules for SmartSDR in the firewall for all ports inbound and outbound (actually, not an optimal configuration), but I even disabled the firewall and it didn't work.
Video updates, hmmm. This is a Surface Pro 3 and there might have been some updates recently.
I indeed did try Dave's suggestions. I'm not running any 3rd part AV software, just the stock Microsoft firewall and AV. I can see the rules for SmartSDR in the firewall for all ports inbound and outbound (actually, not an optimal configuration), but I even disabled the firewall and it didn't work.
Video updates, hmmm. This is a Surface Pro 3 and there might have been some updates recently.
KK9W - Steve
Ed Woodrick
A) This isn't a production level machine, I have others for that. Ham Radio isn't production level for me.
B) Since Microsoft products are my job, it is important for me to run the previews and determine what issues do exist with them.
C) As I mentioned, I have uninstalled and reinstalled numerous times.
D) Oh, and by the way, the definitive uninstall KB that you mentioned, isn't definitive. There's more to remove than what the article refers to. I had found it previously and support did confirm it with me. You may want to update the article.
E) This wouldn't be as big of an issue if my Maestro was sitting on the desktop:-)
By the way, the OS preview that I am running on is about to get released to the world in a very few weeks as the Win 10 Anniversary update. So you may want to think about paying a little more attention. It is possible that SmartSDR may have problems for many more of your users.
But, back to business. I'm just wondering if anyone else Is having similar issues. Trying to narrow it down as to whether it is an machine, OS, or user issue.
Ed WA4YIH