[Hackrf-dev] release 2017.02.1

[Rustu Yucel]

Thanks for new firmware! But how about update with Windows OS? 

Sent from my iPhone

> On 12 Feb 2017, at 05:16, Michael Ossmann <mike at ossmann.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mike at ossmann.com> 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!
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