Flux stop with TCAnim

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Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by F1SSF » Mon Apr 01, 2019 5:18 pm

Hi all,
I have updated TCAnim to have a personal slide show by replacing imz-10.jpg....etc...... by personnel pictures (format 640x489), and I have change duration time (10 > 15), change "CQ" by "" in the a.sh file.
My slide show run very well, but when I transmit on QO100 at SR250 , my signal drop down sometime . I have problem only with TCAnim, no problem with my camera.
What is the problem?
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Re: Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by G4EWJ » Tue Apr 02, 2019 10:59 am

Franck, what is your transmission system (Portsdown?) and which model of RPi?

There can be some jumps in the video with Portsdown, because tcanim and Portsdown software both access the RPi screen buffer, but I don't think that it stops the transmission.

I don't have a Portsdown, so G8GKQ and F5OEO will know better.

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Re: Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by F1SSF » Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:08 am

Hi Brian,
Yes I have porstdown, I try to contact them.
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Re: Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by G8GKQ » Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:04 pm

Hi Franck

I know that tcanim with the Lime is not perfect. So that I can check the problem, please answer these questions:

What FEC are you using?

What modulation? DVBS, S2QPSK, 8PSK?

And what software version - 201903250?

Does the carrier power drop, or just the modulation?

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Re: Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by F1SSF » Tue Apr 02, 2019 5:53 pm

Hi Dave,
.What FEC are you using?
1/2
.What modulation? DVBS, S2QPSK, 8PSK?
S2QPSK
.And what software version - 201903250?
Yes last version
.Does the carrier power drop, or just the modulation
No only modulation drop down, and I can see carrier
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Re: Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by G8GKQ » Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:44 pm

Hi Franck

Thanks. That is exactly the problem that I have here, and have been unable to improve. I was worried that it was a new bug.

I am sorry, but that is the best that Portsdown can do with LimeSDR at the moment (it is OK with the filter-modulator board). I think that Evariste is working on some improvements and I will incorporate them as soon as they are ready and I have the time.

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Re: Flux stop with TCAnim

Post by F1SSF » Tue Apr 02, 2019 8:32 pm

No problem Dave, sometime, it is difficult to integrate alls problems.
See video problem on my QO100 TX.
https://vimeo.com/328037027
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