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[scopehal-apps] azonenberg opened issue #836: Sidebar memory depth and sample rate don't update after a cache flush if scope is reconfigured on the front panel - https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/issues/836
<RedMoss>
Hello, I looked at sigrok bridge, it would take considerable effort to make it work again I think. It's based on a 2-year-old version of the driver located in DSView repository, the code has been refactored since, so a quick remapping functions is not possible. I checked out the old version and copied it to the bridge project.
<RedMoss>
At first connection it threw an error because HDL version of the scope has been increased and didn't match the old driver, after I changed it and made a dummy IsTriggerArmed function, the relays clicked and then the client crashed. I guess I'll write a driver for it too.
<RedMoss>
Maybe I'd get more frames per second out of it than the bridge or get streaming mode to work without pauses and make a Thunderscope for the poor. Thanks for a reference Louis! Haven't reproduced Windows build issues yet.
<RedMoss>
Also, spent an hour dealing with dependencies for w64devkit, and then under MSYS it compiled straight away
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<azonenberg>
RedMoss: oh fuun. well we do want to maintain dslogic/dscope support eventually
<azonenberg>
So if someone wants to replace or provide similar functionality another way, that would be great to have again
<azonenberg>
i think everyone else currently involved is too busy to spend time on it though... yay
<d1b2>
<david.rysk> RedMoss -- any reason for a Windows 7 requirement?
<RedMoss>
azonenberg: Alright, leave a message if someone else also decides to make it. I'll watch the IRC archive. At least the motivation is there, just yesterday I showed a really noisy guitar signal to a friend, could really use an averaging filter
<azonenberg>
We have three different potentially useful filters for that sort of thing
<azonenberg>
moving average - does a simple box lowpass filter
<azonenberg>
FIR filter - can do LPF, HPF, or bandpass
<azonenberg>
exponential moving average - works in the "Z axis" domain averaging each sample with those preceding it in prior waveforms
<azonenberg>
vs most other filters which work in the "X axis" domain
<azonenberg>
(naming is perhaps not the clearest, we might change to clarify at some point)
<RedMoss>
david.rysk: It was a note more than a requirement, I just use it still. Maybe it's the OS that's causing those problems and on 10 it would compile and run without issues
<d1b2>
<david.rysk> I don't expect the OS to be a problem yet, though I'd recommend installing the latest MSVC redistributables. That said, after some time it becomes more and more difficult to support unsupported versions of Windows
<RedMoss>
azonenberg: Yeah, I took a look at the filters. It can be used for sound visualization actually, maybe a scope with persistence and averaged FFT in 2 different windows on the same screen. Well, more motivation for me
<RedMoss>
david.rysk: I use VxKex and DXVK, everything is pretty stable. Well, KiCad mostly, almost every other software is still compatible. Even played last LEGO Star Wars. I plan to upgrade on AM5, there are backported drivers for some chipsets
<d1b2>
<david.rysk> I have an AM5 box here, running Win11 on it though
<d1b2>
<david.rysk> I hate a lot of the user-facing stuff they're added, but they also made fairly significant kernel-level security improvements
<RedMoss>
Yeah, I saw rounded corners and context menu padding on someone's laptop a few years ago, thought, right, cuckoo town, noone in his mind would be fine with it. Turns out people don't care. I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11 sometimes as an example that nothing significant was added, turns out the last paragraph is imporatant. Doesn't beat the interface for me though