BM82557
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Any likelihood Of DSDPlus adding support for HydraSDR that has the updated firmware? SDRTrunk has that in the pipeline --
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i added soapysdr support to dsd-neo (Add Support for SDRPlay / Airspy · Issue #49 · arancormonk/dsd-neo), you can give that a try if you have the hydrasdr module installed (GitHub - hydrasdr/SoapyHydraSDR: Soapy SDR plugin for the HydraSDR). dsd-neo now supports any sdr that soapysdr has a module for... granted, i've only tested soapy using a rtl-sdr dongle against my custom backend and it seemed to perform ok... my custom rtl-sdr code is faster though, but re-using soapy modules is by far easier to support.
So when the Airspy DLL is asked to open a specific device (by serial
number), the DLL fails to open the HydraSDR One.
When the Airspy DLL is asked to just open whatever it can find, it works
fine.
Removing the serial # and running -i0 in FMPA-CC.bat (instead of -i1) works for me. I'm able to use the Hydras in DSDPlus. I imagine down the road that'll be "fixed". But for now they are certainly usable if you are willing to play by a different set of rules
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Hi, BM82557
I don't know much about much, but I think this could very well be a do it yourself project.
This is what I would do. Go to: Release HydraSDR RFOne Firmware v1.0.2 · hydrasdr/rfone_fw
Download the zip file and then move it to a new folder that you will name Hydra.
Extract the zip file inside of the Hydra folder.
The folder named 'windows' has the hydrasdr.dll and the other related files used by Windows.
Find/Go to to your 'DSDPlus(full)' folder.
Then move the required files from the windows folder to the DSDPlus folder.
Others in this forum that know much more than I do may assist you with the process.
Good luck to you with this.
I don't know much about much, but I think this could very well be a do it yourself project.
This is what I would do. Go to: Release HydraSDR RFOne Firmware v1.0.2 · hydrasdr/rfone_fw
Download the zip file and then move it to a new folder that you will name Hydra.
Extract the zip file inside of the Hydra folder.
The folder named 'windows' has the hydrasdr.dll and the other related files used by Windows.
Find/Go to to your 'DSDPlus(full)' folder.
Then move the required files from the windows folder to the DSDPlus folder.
Others in this forum that know much more than I do may assist you with the process.
Good luck to you with this.
BM82557
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Removing the serial # and running -i0 in FMPA-CC.bat (instead of -i1) works for me. I'm able to use the Hydras in DSDPlus. I imagine down the road that'll be "fixed". But for now they are certainly usable if you are willing to play by a different set of rules
I had tried that before after removing the ser # from the cfg but received the -I0 invalid message upon startup. I removed the -I all together from the cc bat and it works fine.
I think -i0 is different from -I0 . But, it may be that it totally needs to be removed. I haven't looked at it after i did it and was going by memory.
BM82557
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I actually used -i not -I like I typed in my update, still asleep.
Does this still allow for CC following and tracking a voice call in one dongle (i.e. just like the Airspy with FMPA)?So when the Airspy DLL is asked to open a specific device (by serial
number), the DLL fails to open the HydraSDR One.
When the Airspy DLL is asked to just open whatever it can find, it works
fine.
Removing the serial # and running -i0 in FMPA-CC.bat (instead of -i1) works for me. I'm able to use the Hydras in DSDPlus. I imagine down the road that'll be "fixed". But for now they are certainly usable if you are willing to play by a different set of rules
My Airspy recently died after several years (no idea why); if the Hydra works with DSD Plus I would love to try it out.
Yes. Operates just the same.
So I just received my hydraSDR, and it works great with DSDPlus. For some reason, it seemed to work right out of the box, without even modifying FMPA-CC.bat at all (with the Airspy I never specified a serial # in any config file). I'm hoping it also works good with OP25 and SDR++ in Linux.
Pretty sure hydra will only work with this version of sdr++
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Release Nightly Build · hydrasdr/SDRPlusPlus
Automated nightly build from CI - Built from commit 4f5d045 Note: Use latest lib hydrasdr v1.1.1 (https://github.com/hydrasdr/hydrasdr-host/releases/nightly) Hardware-agnostic API with automatic DD...
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BM82557
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My HydraSDR works with version 1.2.1 --
boatbod
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I haven't tried the official release versions of gr-osmosdr recently, but back in the early days of HydraSDR you definitely needed to use my patched version (GitHub - boatbod/gr-osmosdr: Mirrored from https://gitea.osmocom.org/sdr/gr-osmosdr) for the Hydra to work similar to an Airspy under linux. I'd suggest trying the official versions first, and if no luck with those, flip over to mine. With mine you can run multiple hydras and identify by serial number etc.
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