Pluto support?

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David Taylor

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Oct 5, 2023, 2:38:07 AM10/5/23
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Alan,

Has there been any interest in supporting the ADALM Pluto? It's capable of
both transmit and receive, although primarily for VHF applications.

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ahop...@googlemail.com

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Oct 5, 2023, 4:01:47 AM10/5/23
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Hi David,
the pluto should work for rx using the soapy support in recent versions of spark and I think someone reported that it worked.
I still need tor add tx to my soapy code, my plan was to test on my lime sdr to see how well it works, I have read comments that soapy tx can be a bit flaky, if this proves to be the case the plan was to add native support for lime and ultimately pluto, hopefully this won't be needed.
73 Alan M0NNB

David Taylor

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Oct 5, 2023, 6:10:53 AM10/5/23
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On 05/10/2023 09:01, 'ahop...@googlemail.com' via SparkSDR wrote:
> Hi David,
> the pluto should work for rx using the soapy support in recent versions of
> spark and I think someone reported that it worked.
> I still need tor add tx to my soapy code, my plan was to test on my lime sdr to
> see how well it works, I have read comments that soapy tx can be a bit flaky,
> if this proves to be the case the plan was to add native support for lime and
> ultimately pluto, hopefully this won't be needed.
> 73 Alan M0NNB

Thanks, Alan.

I had issues with Soapy and it's something I now avoid (it caused data to be
lost on a critical UDP connection).

Let's see how things progress. I always feel it's better - where possible - to
have code under your own control rather than using 3rd party stuff!

73,
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