Well the price is certainly right and I prefer vCom to paying for everyone. I suggest we gather the reports of the stopped ports in some effective manner and zero in on the problem. I would not be surprised to find that Eltima has handled some ugly condition caused by badly written third party software. If we can identify this ugliness that would be helpful as well. I am not opposed to any working solution, I am opposed to not working. I do not volunteer to lead the gathering. I have a full plate. Again, if vCom works for you, your third party software and PowerSDR work well together, stick with it. If you are having problems with the 3rd party software, Eltima seems to work in those cases but it is expensive. If this community wants vCom to succeed (as all of us do) step up and help.
Bob Philip Covington wrote: > On 8/17/07, Robert McGwier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There my apologies end. I do not discount Phil's contributions. I also >> do not propose solutions for problems that do not exist and I most >> certainly do not waste my own money for nonexistent issues. If you were >> listening to the office every day talking about phone calls complaining >> about stopped serial ports, or looking at bug reports (that have just >> stopped since they have given up) you might investigate as well I have >> investigated with port mon as has Bob Tracey and several others. For >> those who have had repeated, regular problems, portmon does not lie. >> The applications on either side of the port remain operational and send >> stuff to a hung port. > >> I had this issue as well. I never see it with >> Eltima ports. With the Flex 5000 going out the door, and people >> expecting to see all of that stuff glue together seamlessly, I am >> putting up an alternative because there is little choice. We have been >> told CLEARLY that development on the vCom suite is at an end. Hey, the >> guy has to make a living and he is doing just that. No one blames him >> and everyone thanks him but that does not mean we can stick our heads in >> the sand like ostriches. I mean to contest this year with the 5000 and >> it simply has to work. >> >> Bob > > vCOM development is certainly not at an end. Even if I was no longer > interested in development, it is open source so anyone can continue to > develop/extend it. > > vCOM is not used only for Flex/PowerSDR. There are many other uses > beyond Ham hobby applications and I know of one gps device > manufacturer who uses it 24/7 in their test system. The is also a > weather station application that uses vCOM with no reports of > problems. I get more downloads of vCOM from those other users than > for Flex/PowerSDR. > > I am glad that you found a solution that works for you. Those who do > have problems with PowerSDR and third party apps will have an > alternative. > > Phil > -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up." Hunter S. Thompson _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
