Before the update, I was running the Hackrf in GQRX on a Raspberry Pi 3B. Input rate was 1 Msps, I could only run narrow fm, and I could not run DSP and use my mouse at the same time. In other words, performance was all but unusable...
After the update, I can now run 1.5 Msps, my mouse functions, and Wide fm is not great, but it is not overloading the cpu any longer. In other words, useability increased by a factor of 10, at least! Thank you very much to the development team that made this happen! Brian KE6IYC Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 11, 2017, at 15:33, Michael Ossmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Release 2017.02.1 is tagged in git with packages available for download: > > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/releases > > > HackRF 2017.02.1 Release Notes > > To upgrade to this release, you must update libhackrf and hackrf-tools on your > host computer. You must also update firmware on your HackRF. It is important > to update both the host code and firmware for this release to work properly. > If you only update one or the other, you may experience unpredictable > behavior. > > Major changes in this release include: > > - Sweep mode: A new firmware function enables wideband spectrum monitoring by > rapidly retuning the radio without requiring individual tuning requests from > the host computer. The new hackrf_sweep utility demonstrates this function, > allowing you to collect spectrum measurements at a sweep rate of 8 GHz per > second. Thanks to Mike Walters, author of inspectrum, for getting this > feature working! > > - Hardware synchronization: It is now possible to wire the expansion headers > of > two or more HackRF Ones together so that they start sampling at the same > time. This is advantageous during phase coherent operation with clock > synchronized HackRFs. See the -H option of hackrf_transfer. Thank you, Mike > Davis! > > - A new utility, hackrf_debug, replaces three older debug utilities, > hackrf_si5351c, hackrf_max2837, and hackrf_rffc5071. > > - Power consumption has been reduced by turning off some microcontroller > features we weren't using. > > There have been many more enhancements and bug fixes. For a full list of > changes, see the git log. > > Special thanks to Dominic Spill who has taken over much of the software > development effort and has helped with nearly every improvement since the > previous release! > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev _______________________________________________ HackRF-dev mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev
