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Persistence issues

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Bob G   W1GLV
Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
edited June 2020 in SmartSDR for Windows
After I installed 1.10.15, I noticed the radio does not return to the setting one had before shutting down SmartSDR. When I start SmartSDR, the sreen shows two panadapters with the frequency on both set to 14.150000 MHz. The waterfall gain is out of sight. The other display settings are not where I left them.
Is anyone else seeing this anomoly?

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  • David
    David Member ✭✭
    edited June 2020
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    Are you using any third party programs as well? I am not experiencing what you describe but have had persistence issues in the past more often when a third party program was involved.
  • Jay Nation
    Jay Nation Member ✭✭
    edited June 2020
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    Bob

    Do you switch between profiles very often?

    When I start SmartSDR it usually opens using the profile that was active when SmartSDR was last closed. Usually, it seems to be using whatever persistence values were in use the last time that profile was used too.

    When it misbehaves, have you tried fixing all the individual values so that they match what you intended, and then saving the Global Profile. Then shutdown SmartSDR, and restart it, It should start up using the profile you just fixed and saved.

    I keep a separate "Factory Defaults" profile set. That I saved and renamed to "Factory Defaults" immediately after installing a new release. I'm careful to only use that profile as a back to square one starting point, which I then use to create new profiles with different names. The "Factory Defaults" profile never get resaved, because it might corrupt the pristine factory values it's supposed to contain.

    My "Factory Defaults" profile is saved along with all my other profiles when I export them before installing each new release of SmartSDR, but I usually delete it and recreate it right after importing my profiles into a new release. the new install Default profile might not always contain the same values, Flexradio might have changed something, since the previous release.

    The SO2RDefault profile that comes with each install, is likely close enough to the values that were being used when you first started the new version of SmartSDR.  I don't have any SO2R needs or abilities so it never gets used for anything. However leaving that Profile active will result in the persistence values for it being reset to whatever values were active at the time SmartSDR next gets closed, and will likely be reused the next time you start SmartSDR.

    Just be careful when saving profiles, be sure they are tight before you save them, if accidents get saved then delete those accidental profiles.

    Another hint: I use a global profile called "Digital", when I want to modify that profile, I don't resave it as "Digital", instead I save a new profile called "Digital-1" which will contain the modifications I made. Later if I'm happier with Digital-1, I resave it as Digital and delete the Digital-1 profile. To avoid ending up with a long list of Digital-### profiles, cluttering up the profiles list.

    None of the above may address your problem, it could still be a bug, or a glitch. I'm just trying to explain a possible workaround to get you past this glitch.

      SDRgadgets

    #FlexRadio IRC chat

      73, Jay - NO5J

  • IZ2ODM
    IZ2ODM Member
    edited June 2020
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    Yes, I confirm more or less.
    What happens to my FLex is that I continue to loos my "ENABLE" for TX1 . TX2 (which I connect a preamplifiler for external RX antenna) stay correctly ENABLE but TX1 loose continuously. Frankly speaking I had this issue also with 1.10.8
  • Ian1
    Ian1 Member ✭✭
    edited June 2020
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    Might be DDutil if it's running?

    Ian
  • Bob G   W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited January 2017
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    No 3rd party programs.
  • Bob G   W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited January 2017
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    Jay, never had a problem with persistence until 1.10.15.
  • Bob G   W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited January 2017
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    That could be caused by a transmit profile.
  • Bob G   W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited January 2017
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    Don't use DDUTIL.
  • Al K0VM
    Al K0VM Member ✭✭✭
    edited June 2020
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    I f you have not already done so, I would recommend exporting you profiles, do a reset to factory defaults and then re importing you profiles..

    AL, K0VM
  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited January 2017
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    or DDUtil
  • IZ2ODM
    IZ2ODM Member
    edited January 2017
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    I'm use DDUTIL. Maybe something to set (or toggle) ?
  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited January 2017
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    DDUtil has a default setting that disables the TX Relay
  • Bob G   W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited January 2017
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    did that.
  • IZ2ODM
    IZ2ODM Member
    edited January 2017
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    Thanks Tim for suggestion but I don't understand which is this command on DDutil...

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