ToddWilkinson
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Anyone using it without the software crashing?
SDR Sharp 1914
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Same as 1913, eventually crashes while tuning, crashes when adjusting gain..same windows errors in event viewer
It still crashes the same way if you install it the usual way.
But, if you use the RTL-SDR Blog (Home of the RTL-SDR V3 Blog) modified driver, it behaves much better:
June 26, 2023
Possible fixes for new versions of SDR# crashing with RTL-SDRs
Possible fixes for new versions of SDR# crashing with RTL-SDRs
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Quick Start Guide
Much better or on par with 1910?
Usually as good as 1910, but not always. It starts back with Bulk Interface (0) if all 4 Zadig boxes are checked. Unchecking the second box also works. These assume the Zadig driver for the RTL-SDR hasn't been installed yet.
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Scanned for about a minute with blog drivers
Click on install-rtlsdr-blog instead of install-rtlsdr when connected to the internet:
Thanks for the test report.
And then, I assume, crashed?
If that is true, then I have the same conclusion as last time:
A critical change has been made in the application. Making a change in the dependencies will not solve the problem with the RTL-SDR dongle when using versions later than 1910.
MELERIX
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so, SDR# 1915 is fully stable now with RTL-SDR?
SDRSharp 1915 Released: RTL-SDR Crashes Fixed
Thank you to SDR# author Youssef for updating SDR# (SDRSharp) and fixing a recent bug that was causing RTL-SDR units to crash whenever the frequency was changed. We are putting this post out to inform everyone who was having this issue to please update their SDRSharp version to 1915 which can be...
www.rtl-sdr.com
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Thank you for your post. I didn't notice that it had been fixed.
Works well for me, so far.
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Looks good, (with the rtl-sdr blog dll)non of the hiccups with tuning,gain etc, has been scanning for 40 minutes
Edit, just stopped scanner, tuned to fm broadcast 100.7 , spectrum shows the frequency, but displayed signals were from where I stopped the scanner in the 154 mhz area
Edit, just stopped scanner, tuned to fm broadcast 100.7 , spectrum shows the frequency, but displayed signals were from where I stopped the scanner in the 154 mhz area
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All good with keenerds dll
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A few days ago I dug out an old RTL-SDR dongle I have had for several years that I never really used. I downloaded SDR# and after I finally got it working, I found if I changed frequency it would crash the program. I figured the dongle was the problem.
After reading this thread today I downloaded the update and reinstalled SDR#. Now everything is working correctly. I also installed the version with the plug-ins and managed to get the scanner plug-in to work,,,,,,sort of. I think there are several settings I still need to configure. But, I can manually tune around airband and tune in a lot of signals.
Works much better than I remember from the first time I tried using the dongle. I couldn't seem to get anything to work very well. So I just put it away. Good thing I remembered having it!
James
After reading this thread today I downloaded the update and reinstalled SDR#. Now everything is working correctly. I also installed the version with the plug-ins and managed to get the scanner plug-in to work,,,,,,sort of. I think there are several settings I still need to configure. But, I can manually tune around airband and tune in a lot of signals.
Works much better than I remember from the first time I tried using the dongle. I couldn't seem to get anything to work very well. So I just put it away. Good thing I remembered having it!
James
MELERIX
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confirmed, new version 1915 + keenerd driver is fully stable.
I'll try create two installers later, one for keenerd driver and other for rtl-sdr-blog driver, that could be usefull for somebody.
Thank you MELERIX, that did the job, I am very happy!
I first used 1915 (original, bare bone) with rtlsdr.dll version 1.0.0.1 (43kB) on my i7 laptop (8GB, 120 GB SSD). That worked, but many hickups and it didn't feel good. Then I transferred all folders and sub-folders to my i5 laptop (4GB, 120GB SSD) and nothing worked anymore. The startup seemed to work, but eventually the startup process stopped.
Then on the i7 laptop I copied (only) the SDRSharp.exe and Shark.dll files from SDR# version 1916 over to the BIN map from version 1915. Also I put both batch files of yours in the BIN folder and did run them.
Now...everything works and I even kept the old layout!!
Then I put the complete folder structure back on the i5 and… it still works!
Then I copied my own files: Bandplan.xml with 12000++ entries, Frequencies.xml file with 29000++ entries and my Mode_presets.xml with 50 entries and it still works!
The info in the spectrum and waterfall appears again, the rendering in the spectrum was always very slow. There were many many hickups, now it's running smoothly again. I'm now adding one-by-one the plugins and there seem to be some that are not compatible anymore.
So using the Community Installer is not the way to install it now, there are too many old plugins available.
I have 3 SDR# variants in use, each working in his own folder and also a 4th one with my SDR# test environment.
I first used 1915 (original, bare bone) with rtlsdr.dll version 1.0.0.1 (43kB) on my i7 laptop (8GB, 120 GB SSD). That worked, but many hickups and it didn't feel good. Then I transferred all folders and sub-folders to my i5 laptop (4GB, 120GB SSD) and nothing worked anymore. The startup seemed to work, but eventually the startup process stopped.
Then on the i7 laptop I copied (only) the SDRSharp.exe and Shark.dll files from SDR# version 1916 over to the BIN map from version 1915. Also I put both batch files of yours in the BIN folder and did run them.
Now...everything works and I even kept the old layout!!
Then I put the complete folder structure back on the i5 and… it still works!
Then I copied my own files: Bandplan.xml with 12000++ entries, Frequencies.xml file with 29000++ entries and my Mode_presets.xml with 50 entries and it still works!
The info in the spectrum and waterfall appears again, the rendering in the spectrum was always very slow. There were many many hickups, now it's running smoothly again. I'm now adding one-by-one the plugins and there seem to be some that are not compatible anymore.
So using the Community Installer is not the way to install it now, there are too many old plugins available.
I have 3 SDR# variants in use, each working in his own folder and also a 4th one with my SDR# test environment.
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... and then I changed to another computer: my old i5 laptop running W11.
Wanted to take that one with me and use it for mobile SDR only during holiday weeks.
First run and install Zadig.
Then copied the whole SDR directory (1 to 1) with its sub directorys from my home computer (i7).
That version works fine and also contains sub directorys with older versions like 1732 and 1491.
Started good old 1732 => that one now works on the i5 too.
Started vintage 1491 => that one works too on the i5.
Then I tried version 1918, with its sub versions and all their directorys.
After starting up it showed it is running several plugins, each with their own messages.
Then everything vanised and no SDR-Sharp at all.
Looked into the directory, found an error log and removed these plugins:
SimpleDMR
SimpledPMR
Then again I started SDR# and it all seemed to work, but... no RTL-USB item to choose for, only E4000.
And again I found another error message => now I removed the DF8RYDatabridge plugin.
Then W11 wanted to install some updates, so I gave that a try.
Again I started SDR#: still not running RTL-USB, only E4000.
After running the batch file for changing the RTL driver it started and... the magic happenend... now it works!
Don't know what caused or changed all above, but I'm happy now.
My holiday laptop specs:
Windows 11-Home, version 21H2-22000-2176
i5-3210 Quad core (2,50GHz),
8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
Screendumps taken with only a paperclip connected as my antenna.. ;-)
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... and then I changed to another computer: my old i5 laptop running W11.
Wanted to take that one with me and use it for mobile SDR only during holiday weeks.
First run and install Zadig.
Then copied the whole SDR directory (1 to 1) with its sub directorys from my home computer (i7).
That version works fine and also contains sub directorys with older versions like 1732 and 1491.
Started good old 1732 => that one now works on the i5 too.
Started vintage 1491 => that one works too on the i5.
Then I tried version 1918, with its sub versions and all their directorys.
After starting up it showed it is running several plugins, each with their own messages.
Then everything vanised and no SDR-Sharp at all.
Looked into the directory, found an error log and removed these plugins:
SimpleDMR
SimpledPMR
Then again I started SDR# and it all seemed to work, but... no RTL-USB item to choose for, only E4000.
And again I found another error message => now I removed the DF8RYDatabridge plugin.
Then W11 wanted to install some updates, so I gave that a try.
Again I started SDR#: still not running RTL-USB, only E4000.
After running the batch file for changing the RTL driver it started and... the magic happenend... now it works!
Don't know what caused or changed all above, but I'm happy now.
My holiday laptop specs:
Windows 11-Home, version 21H2-22000-2176
i5-3210 Quad core (2,50GHz),
8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
Screendumps taken with only a paperclip connected as my antenna.. ;-)
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Thanks again MELERIX.
Yesterday I have received the new RTL-USB Blog V4, a week earlier than could be expected.
Now I'm busy with testing and adjusting in a new and clean Windows 11 install.
This batch file is also the way to install the driver for the new V4 RTL-USB stick and the nightly build version of the RTL-USB driver is downloaded with it. This driver is backwards compatible for the RTL-USB V3.
The new RTL-USB Blog V4 has an internal upconverter and the HF spectrum part (below 24 MHz) is being up-transformed with the internally used 28.8 MHz clock frequency. The driver 'sees' this and adapts immediately. Now you have no longer to switch between direct and quadrature reception. An external upconverter (Ham-It-Up) is no longer needed and you can now receive HF with use of the new SDR-Sharp versions. An additional advantage of the V4 is that there is a calmer behavior in the HF part of the spectrum and that is also clearly visible in the spectrum and the waterfall. A little less signal in the VHF part is not a problem, if you turn up the gain a bit.
Because the batch file uses two help files (httpget.exe and unzip.exe), it is necessary to start the file from the SDR-Sharp program folder itself.
My Windows version (Windows 11-Home) immediately gives a warning after starting it: this file can damage the operating system. Accept this and the batch file process will continue.
Now continuing testing... ;-)
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Thanks again MELERIX.
Yesterday I have received the new RTL-USB Blog V4, a week earlier than could be expected.
Now I'm busy with testing and adjusting in a new and clean Windows 11 install.
This batch file is also the way to install the driver for the new V4 RTL-USB stick and the nightly build version of the RTL-USB driver is downloaded with it. This driver is backwards compatible for the RTL-USB V3.
The new RTL-USB Blog V4 has an internal upconverter and the HF spectrum part (below 24 MHz) is being up-transformed with the internally used 28.8 MHz clock frequency. The driver 'sees' this and adapts immediately. Now you have no longer to switch between direct and quadrature reception. An external upconverter (Ham-It-Up) is no longer needed and you can now receive HF with use of the new SDR-Sharp versions. An additional advantage of the V4 is that there is a calmer behavior in the HF part of the spectrum and that is also clearly visible in the spectrum and the waterfall. A little less signal in the VHF part is not a problem, if you turn up the gain a bit.
Because the batch file uses two help files (httpget.exe and unzip.exe), it is necessary to start the file from the SDR-Sharp program folder itself.
My Windows version (Windows 11-Home) immediately gives a warning after starting it: this file can damage the operating system. Accept this and the batch file process will continue.
Now continuing testing... ;-)
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MELERIX
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that's because all CMD/BAT files in Windows are locked by default for security reasons (if they come from other PC), but you can just unlock them easily with: right click -> properties -> unblock box/unblock button.
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October 28, the annual Radio Amateur Day was held in the Netherlands.
I (PD2EW) asked for a demo stand there and I gave many demonstrations of, among other things, the blog-V4. There I noticed that many viewers were quite interested, but only a few have already purchased the blog-V4.
V3 and the 'blue one' were most popular among the users.
Many questions were answered bij me and I also gave many demonstrations about operating SDR software with knobs, switches, encoders and... a Bluetooth Playstation 4 controller. The software I used there: SDR-Sharp 1732, HDSDR and SDR-Sharp 1919.
During the day I've seen no crashing software at all, so it's quite stable now when using SDR# 1732 as well as 1919.
Some people stopped, looked at everything I had on display for demo (everyone was allowed to operate everything themselves). They made some comments and turned the tuning knobs (that's the only thing that was attractive - the big knob -) and talked about how good they and their own rig were. Then I talked about the signals I received with SDR-Sharp and the V3, in combination with the Ham-It-Up converter, and also with the RSP1A... and then they continued without further comments... ;-)
My blog-V4 was connected to the old and new SDR# versions and I also used a medium wave RF modulator, because little usable signals could be received in the expo hall. My neighbor Lex (PH2LB) had a small CW demo setup that was broadcasting on 7020 kHz, so I used that signal for demonstration too.
People were very pleased with my references to the MELERIX batch files, that were to find on this RR forum. The batch file included in SDR# 1919 has also been modified by Youssef and refers to the same new V4 driver.
In the meantime, I hardly use the V3 myself anymore and now I'm busy preparing for receiving the SAQ 17.2 kHz signals with the blog-V4. SDR-Sharp can't zoom in on the VLF part very well and I hope I can set it up so that it becomes quite usable.
Next SAQ CW broadcast will be on Christmas Eve.
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October 28, the annual Radio Amateur Day was held in the Netherlands.
I (PD2EW) asked for a demo stand there and I gave many demonstrations of, among other things, the blog-V4. There I noticed that many viewers were quite interested, but only a few have already purchased the blog-V4.
V3 and the 'blue one' were most popular among the users.
Many questions were answered bij me and I also gave many demonstrations about operating SDR software with knobs, switches, encoders and... a Bluetooth Playstation 4 controller. The software I used there: SDR-Sharp 1732, HDSDR and SDR-Sharp 1919.
During the day I've seen no crashing software at all, so it's quite stable now when using SDR# 1732 as well as 1919.
Some people stopped, looked at everything I had on display for demo (everyone was allowed to operate everything themselves). They made some comments and turned the tuning knobs (that's the only thing that was attractive - the big knob -) and talked about how good they and their own rig were. Then I talked about the signals I received with SDR-Sharp and the V3, in combination with the Ham-It-Up converter, and also with the RSP1A... and then they continued without further comments... ;-)
My blog-V4 was connected to the old and new SDR# versions and I also used a medium wave RF modulator, because little usable signals could be received in the expo hall. My neighbor Lex (PH2LB) had a small CW demo setup that was broadcasting on 7020 kHz, so I used that signal for demonstration too.
People were very pleased with my references to the MELERIX batch files, that were to find on this RR forum. The batch file included in SDR# 1919 has also been modified by Youssef and refers to the same new V4 driver.
In the meantime, I hardly use the V3 myself anymore and now I'm busy preparing for receiving the SAQ 17.2 kHz signals with the blog-V4. SDR-Sharp can't zoom in on the VLF part very well and I hope I can set it up so that it becomes quite usable.
Next SAQ CW broadcast will be on Christmas Eve.
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