New to SkyRoof version 1.16

[James Hall]

Hello:

I’ve installed SkyRoof on a Asus Vivobook L510KA with Win 11. It has 4GB RAM and OpenGL 4.6. It’s connected to an AirSpy R2 and I’m using rotctld for the WA4MCM rotator. This all seems to work, except it runs at a crawl and most of the program does not display until I select the SDR menu in tools, then everything displays. The SDR waterfall works fine and I’m able to scroll and zoom fairly well. But then I notice the clock isn’t moving and the sky view is stuck and the rotator heading isn’t moving. As soon as I again select the SDR menu in Tools, the program ‘catches up’, but only briefly.

I’m going to try installing on a bit beefier laptop tomorrow. Strange as the combination of SatPC32 and SDR Console works just fine on this machine. Hoping things can get ironed out during this beta time ! Love the interface !!

73, Jamie

WB4YDL

[James Hall]

Just a follow up - 

Installed SkyRoof 1.17 beta onto an ASUS GL502 laptop (2016) with 16GB RAM and a NVidia GTX 980M graphics card running Win 10. Absolutely no issues at all running SkyRoof with an AirSpy R2 (just receiving right now). 

So it would seem that system requirements for this program are a bit higher than my 4GB, Intel graphics, Win 11 laptop. :)

73, Jamie

WB4YDL

[Alex VE3NEA]

Hi Jamie,

Thank you for sharing your status, I am glad that the program works on your other computer. 4 Gb and OpenGL 4.6 are good enough, the bottleneck seems to be elsewhere. I suspect the CPU and GPU resources. If you watch SkyRoof in Task Manager, you may be able to tell what it struggles with. 

[James Hall]

Just a follow up - 

Installed SkyRoof 1.17 beta onto an ASUS GL502 laptop (2016) with 16GB RAM and a NVidia GTX 980M graphics card running Win 10. Absolutely no issues at all running SkyRoof with an AirSpy R2 (just receiving right now). 

So it would seem that system requirements for this program are a bit higher than my 4GB, Intel graphics, Win 11 laptop. :)

73, Jamie

WB4YDL

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[James Hall]

Alex:

Thanks for the reply. I’ll check into it more. This is a very basic computer with Intel UHD 600 graphics hardwired. I think I saw the CPU running above 40%. These are Celeron N3000 level chips. I’ll recheck this. I have a Beelink T4 Pro Mini PC with 4GB RAM also that l’ll test on. My goal is a very portable SatComm station.

I’ll start adding transmit this weekend with different radios - FT-818, IC-706MK2G, and for my desktop the FT-847. Should be fun !

I really like the combination of SDR waterfall and tracking all in one program. I’d like to see the ability to filter down on a SSB signal. 

I’ll report my progress.

73, Jamie

WB4YDL

[James Hall]

Well, I had some time to work on this little laptop and it was a frustrating experience. Looking at Task Manager, besides task manager itself, the heavy hitters were SkyRoof, rotctld, and antimalware service executable. The latter was eating about 140MB at any given time and I didn’t think that amounted to much. Besides, my best efforts could not get rid of it. Even with a regedit to disable it, after a cold restart, all of that disappeared and it was back. I guess a Windows 11 thing. 

Running beta 1.17, it ran really slow - freezing for awhile - things like clicking on the taskbar would ‘wake it up’. Eventually, even the rotctld would stop working. Sigh … Interestingly, the waterfall and SDR would continue to work just fine throughout this.

This laptop was a $100 refurb that I added a M.2 SSD. It came with Win11. It worked great for Field Day and that was its designed use. However, I may have to look for something a bit beefier and then make this one a Linux box.

Any suggestions are welcome. For now, I’m going to my Win10 laptop with NVidia graphics and 16GB RAM. SkyRoof runs very well on this machine. Onward …

73, Jamie

WB4YDL

[Alex VE3NEA]

Please send me your log file, I will see if there are any errors that make the program slow.

[James Hall]

Will do, Alex. Thanks !

73, Jamie

WB4YDL

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On Jul 31, 2025, at 8:21 PM, Alex VE3NEA <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:

Please send me your log file, I will see if there are any errors that make the program slow.

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