Brian, That's great to hear! My guess is that it was the reduction of power consumption that helped. Have you tried running your HackRF off a powered hub?
Mike On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 06:59:15PM -0700, Brian Gieryk wrote: > > 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
