Airspy on MacBook Pro

[kn6ro]

I have tried to run SDR# with my Airspy using a Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine (Parallels 10) on my 2015 MacBook Pro. It worked, but couldn't get the Airspy to run at 10Mbps without being choppy. It was actually unusable. Worked fine at 2.5.

Yesterday I broke down and installed Windows 8.1 using Bootcamp. My thought was to try getting rid of the overhead caused by the Parallels VM.

Now, the Airspy works like a champ at 10Mbps. Just thought I would put this out if anyone is considering it.

 

[SCPD]

Using Parallels your running everything emulated I believe and using bootcamp it will run the macs hardware (usb, video, ethernet etc etc) native. Your mac is just a PC with a pretty theme for an OS. I have 3 mac's so I'm not knocking them

I also found vmware fusion to be better at running emulated hardware in the VM

 

[kn6ro]

Xeno - you are exactly right. I knew exactly what the deal was when I tried to run the Airspy in the VM. Actually, the issue was with the throughput on the USB port in the VM. Just wanted to post this in case anyone in the future was searching so something specific would come up.

 

[SCPD]

I hope my response didn't come off as a know it all or snoody and if it did then i apologize.
You can try running HDSDR v2.70 it was port over to mac and does work fine with extio's does the airspy have a extio dll?

If you want i will post the hdsdr port for you.

 

[kn6ro]

Sorry for the delay. Yes, the airspy has extio available. I would love to give HDSDR a shot on OS X.

 

[SCPD]

As long as the extio.dll does not try make any stored registry values this should work just fine.
http://subdimensions.com/subd/Download/HDSDR OSX 2.70.zip

I have it running without issues with my Afedri SDR. My SDRplay does not work with HDSDR OSX because of the above issue.