DSD Plus 1.071 FMP

[BM82557]

I usually place a shortcut on the desktop. In the Target Line after the FMP.exe I add the parms I want to use. See Attachment.

 

[moonbounce]

So you type in 'fmp 2 1 20 410.000' (your numbers will be different obviously)... The program starts then exits? No errors reported at all... FMP gives a fair bit of feedback when it starts up or runs into a problem.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This is what I get.

C:\Users\moonbounce>cd\

C:\>C:\Users\moonbounce\Documents\FMP\FMP.exe fmp 2 1 66 142.500
FMP rev 1.18

Usage: FMP WaveOutDevice# SDRdevice# PPMcorrection frequency


Can't open configuration file
Error processing config file (FMP.cfg)

C:\>C:\Users\moonbounce\Documents\FMP\FMP.exe fmp 1 1 66 142.500
FMP rev 1.18

Usage: FMP WaveOutDevice# SDRdevice# PPMcorrection frequency


Can't open configuration file
Error processing config file (FMP.cfg)

 

[RonnieUSA]

Here is a zipped files of how I did mine.

 

[Forts]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This is what I get.

C:\Users\moonbounce>cd\

C:\>C:\Users\moonbounce\Documents\FMP\FMP.exe fmp 2 1 66 142.500
FMP rev 1.18

Usage: FMP WaveOutDevice# SDRdevice# PPMcorrection frequency


Can't open configuration file
Error processing config file (FMP.cfg)

C:\>C:\Users\moonbounce\Documents\FMP\FMP.exe fmp 1 1 66 142.500
FMP rev 1.18

Usage: FMP WaveOutDevice# SDRdevice# PPMcorrection frequency


Can't open configuration file
Error processing config file (FMP.cfg)

Ok...so there is an error message. Have you confirmed that fmp.cfg is in C:\Users\moonbounce\Documents\FMP ??

 

[moonbounce]

Ok...so there is an error message. Have you confirmed that fmp.cfg is in C:\Users\moonbounce\Documents\FMP ??

I am going to change it over to my C drive as sometimes my computer gives me problems running from the documents folder. I will make changes and get back.

 

[N1DPW]

Success -- FMP now running from desktop shortcut. I had wrong numbers for Waveout Device and DVB-T Device.

Active keys -- spacebar to toggle muting OK but no squelch. Does a squelch feature work only when scanning? (have not gotten that far).

 

[moonbounce]

Success -- FMP now running from desktop shortcut. I had wrong numbers for Waveout Device and DVB-T Device.

Active keys -- spacebar to toggle muting OK but no squelch. Does a squelch feature work only when scanning? (have not gotten that far).

I am quite sure that is what my problem might be, or something close to it but here is where I stand now, this is with the change to FMP.cfg:

C:\>"C:\DSD 1.07\FMP.exe" fmp 1 1 66 142.000
FMP rev 1.18

Usage: FMP WaveOutDevice# SDRdevice# PPMcorrection frequency


Can't open configuration file
Error processing config file (FMP.cfg)

 

[Forts]

Why don't you run it from the directory itself? It won't work the way you are trying to do it (calling the exe from another location)

CD c:\dsd 1.07
Fmp 1 1 66 142.0

 

[moonbounce]

Forts, I put a copy on my C drive so I should be able to run it from there? It has the same setup as DSD 1.7 or DSD 1.5 and they run perfectly. Maybe I am not understanding what you are saying. Maybe I should just stick to DSD 1.5 lol.

Also I have placed a shortcut on the desktop for both dsd 1.7 and FMP. If I left click on the shortcut and copy and paste the path in the command prompt I can run DSD 1.7 or I can double click on the icon and run it from there.

With FMP I can click on the desktop icon and run it but that only lasts for about 5 seconds before it closes, or I can left click on the icon in properties I click and save the path and hit enter and I get a message : can't open file". I would think that I should get the same results as the fmp.exe icon when i click on it?

 

[BM82557]

I must be doing something incorrectly as I can't get the Scan feature to work. I've setup a fmp.scanlist file as stated in the FMP text document. On the FMP window it immediately comes up as active and terminated when I press S to start scan mode . See screenshot. Any ideas?

 

[RonnieUSA]

I must be doing something incorrectly as I can't get the Scan feature to work. I've setup a fmp.scanlist file as stated in the FMP text document. On the FMP window it immediately comes up as active and terminated when I press S to start scan mode . See screenshot. Any ideas?

Did You do the FreqList also?
The path to the list needs to be in the FMP.cfg file also.

1                                  ; sampling rate (1.0, 2.0 or 2.4)
512                                ; spectrum window width
32                                 ; FFT size (8k, 16k, 32k)
10                                 ; spectrum update rate in Hz
5000 -6250 7500 12500 15000 25000  ; step size table; units = Hz; negate default
.                                  ; DSD+ path
[b].\FMP-FreqList.csv                 ; primary frequency list CSV path\filename[/b]
.\FMP-RRSystems.csv                ; auxiliary frequency list CSV path\filename
miles                              ; search units (miles or kilometers)
99.9                               ; search distance
19.7163 -155.6241                  ; search origin

 

[jazzbassNick]

I must be doing something incorrectly as I can't get the Scan feature to work. I've setup a fmp.scanlist file as stated in the FMP text document. On the FMP window it immediately comes up as active and terminated when I press S to start scan mode . See screenshot. Any ideas?

It's working for me. Mine is named FMP.ScanList (no .txt or anything after that, not sure if capitalization matters).
Just spaces between the 3 entries:

;San Gabriel PD
460.175 P25 San Gabriel Dispatch
460.075 P25 San Gabriel TAC

 

[jazzbassNick]

Did You do the FreqList also?
The path to the list needs to be in the FMP.cfg file also.

FYI - that's incorrect. The scan freqs don't have to be in the FreqList and the path to the ScanList is not in FMP.cfg.

The two freqs in my above post aren't my FreqList.

 

[moonbounce]

I finally got, big thanks to Slicewizard, Ronnie and Forts. Now I just gotta figure out how to use it lol

Moonbounce

 

[Jay911]

Is anyone having a situation where they're seeing "SDR device count=0" regardless of whether or not a(ny) stick(s) are plugged in?

I have a R820T2 connected to my laptop and it's not being detected by FMP. For some reason, SDR# can see it just fine. I can even pipe to DSD+ and other applications by using SDR# and VAC. But FMP absolutely steadfastly refuses to recognize the stick.

I've swapped it to different USB ports, uninstalled and reinstalled it (including blowing away the RTL2832 install completely and re-adding it with zadig), and all that sort of thing.

These exact SDR sticks have worked in the past with older versions of DSD+ and with SDR# and Unitrunker. Like I said though, only SDR# is tolerating them now (even Unitrunker is crashing, except under some really strange circumstances).

I have no idea what is causing this mess.. any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[mtindor]

Take the rtlsdr.dll and libusb*.dll files from your SDR# install and put them in your DSDPlus directory, overwriting the ones that came with DSDPlus.

NOTE: If your DSDPlus already works, don't do this. Only do this if your SDR# works and your FMP doesn't.

Mike

 

[Jay911]

Outstanding, thanks Mike - that worked!

 

[BM82557]

Got Scan to work, I was saving it incorrectly originally Saved it as all files and it works great -


.

 

[mtindor]

Outstanding, thanks Mike - that worked!

You're welcome, Jay. I learned that one firsthand. I'm not sure why that happens, but it only occurs for a relatively small number of people. I had thought it was because I was running 64-bit OS, but I think tons of people are running 64-bit OS' these days.

Not sure. Maybe DSDPlus can shed some light on why he/she thinks that the libusb stuff distributed might not be appropriate for all installations.

Hopefully anyone else having this problem reads this thread.

mike

 

[SCPD]

Take the rtlsdr.dll and libusb*.dll files from your SDR# install and put them in your DSDPlus directory, overwriting the ones that came with DSDPlus.

NOTE: If your DSDPlus already works, don't do this. Only do this if your SDR# works and your FMP doesn't.

Mike

Wow. The DSD+ 1.07x zip file is shipping with 1.0.9 of libusb. That's pretty ancient for libusb.