Changelog

PyRF 2.7.1

2014-11-13

  • Discovery widget now queries for new WSA’s on the network every 10 seconds
  • Fixed issue where switching from sweep to non-sweep wrongly changed center
frequency
  • Fixed issue where Minimum control not behaving as designed
  • Fixed issue where trigger controls were not disabled for non-trigger modes
  • Fixed frequency axis texts
  • Y-axis in the persistence plot now corresponds with spectral plot’s y-axis

PyRF 2.7.0

2014-11-04

  • All control widgets are now dockable
  • Enabled mouse control of spectral plot’s y-axis
  • Added lower RBW values in non-sweep modes

PyRF 2.6.2

2014-10-10

  • HDR gain control in GUI now allows values up to +20 dB
  • Sweep ZIF (100 MHz steps) now only shown in GUI when developer menu is enabled
  • GUI PLL Reference control now works in Sweep mode
  • Darkened trace color in GUI for attenuated edges and dc offset now matches trace color
  • Alternate sweep step color in GUI now matches trace color
  • DC offset region now limited to middle three bins in GUI (was expanding when decimation was applied)
  • Correction to usable region in ZIF and SH modes with decimation applied
  • Fixed HDR center offset value
  • Added device information dialog to GUI

PyRF 2.6.1

2014-09-30

  • Upload corrected version with changelog

PyRF 2.6.0

2014-09-30

  • Added channel power measurement feature to GUI
  • Added Export to CSV feature to GUI for saving streams of processed power spectrum data
  • Added a power level cursor (adjustable horizontal line) to GUI
  • Added reference level offset adjustment box to GUI
  • Trigger region in GUI is now a rectangle to make it visibly different than channel power measurement controls
  • Update mode drop-down in GUI to include information about each mode instead of showing internal mode names
  • Use netifaces for address detection to fix discover issue on non-English windows machines

PyRF 2.5.0

2014-09-09

  • Added Persistence plot
  • Made markers draggable in the plot
  • Added version number to title bar
  • Moved DSP options to developer menu, developer menu now hidden unless GUI run with -d option
  • Rounded center to nearest tuning resolution step in GUI
  • Fixed a number of GUI control and label issues
  • Moved changelog into docs and updated

PyRF 2.4.1

2014-08-19

  • Added missing reqirement
  • Fixed use with CONNECTOR IQ path

PyRF 2.4.0

2014-08-19

  • Improved trigger controls
  • Fixed modes available with some WSA versions

PyRF 2.3.0

2014-08-12

  • Added full playback support (including sweep) in GUI
  • Added hdr_gain control to WSA class
  • Added average mode and clear button for traces
  • Added handling for different REFLEVEL_ERROR on early firmware versions
  • Disable triggers for unsupported WSA firmware versions
  • Added free plot adjustment developer option
  • Fixed a number of GUI interface issues

PyRF 2.2.0

2014-07-15

  • Added waterfall display for GUI and example program
  • Added automatic re-tuning when plot dragged of zoomed
  • Added recording speca state in recorded VRT files, Start/Stop recording menu
  • Added GUI non-sweep playback support and command line ‘-p’ option
  • Added marker controls: peak left, right, center to marker
  • Redesigned frequency controls, device controls and trace controls
  • Default to Sweep SH mode in GUI
  • Added developer options menu for attenuated edges etc.
  • Refactored shared GUI code and panels
  • SweepDevice now returns numpy arrays of dBm values
  • Fixed device discovery with multiple interfaces
  • Replaced reflevel adjustment properties with REFLEVEL_ERROR value
  • Renamed GUI launcher to rtsa-gui

PyRF 2.1.0

2014-06-20

  • Refactored GUI code to separate out device control and state
  • Added SPECA defaults to device properties
  • Restored trigger controls in GUI
  • Added DSP panel to control fft calculations in GUI
  • Fixed a number of GUI plot issues

PyRF 2.0.3

2014-06-03

  • Added simple QT GUI example with frequency, attenuation and rbw controls
  • Added support for more hardware versions
  • Fixed plotting issues in a number of modes in GUI

PyRF 2.0.2

2014-04-29

  • Removed Sweep ZIF mode from GUI
  • Fixed RFE input mode GUI issues

PyRF 2.0.1

2014-04-21

  • Added Sweep SH mode support to SweepDevice
  • Added IQ in, DD, SHN RFE modes to GUI
  • Added IQ output path and PLL reference controls to GUI
  • Added discovery widget to GUI for finding devices
  • Fixed a number of issues

PyRF 2.0.0

2014-01-31

  • Added multiple traces and trace controls to GUI
  • Added constellation and IQ plots
  • Added raw VRT capture-to-file support
  • Updated SweepDevice sweep plan calculation
  • Created separate GUI for single capture modes
  • Updated device properties for WSA5000 RFE modes
  • Show attenuated edges in gray, sweep steps in different colors in GUI
  • Added decimation and frequency shift controls to single capture GUI
  • Fixed many issues with WSA5000 different RFE mode support
  • Removed trigger controls, waiting for hardware support
  • Switched to using pyinstaller for better windows build support

PyRF 1.2.0

2013-10-01

  • Added WSA5000 support
  • Added WSA discovery example scripts
  • Renamed WSA4000 class to WSA (supports WSA5000 as well)
  • Separated device properties from WSA class

PyRF 1.1.0

2013-07-19

  • Fixed some py2exe issues
  • Show the GUI even when not connected

PyRF 1.0.0

2013-07-18

  • Switched to pyqtgraph for spectrum plot
  • Added trigger controls
  • Added markers
  • Added hotkeys for control
  • Added bandwidth control
  • Renamed GUI launcher speca-gui
  • Created SweepDevice to generalize spectrum analyzer-type function
  • Created CaptureDevice to collect single captures and related context

PyRF 0.4.0

2013-05-18

  • pyrf.connectors.twisted_async.TwistedConnector now has a vrt_callback attribute for setting a function to call when VRT packets are received.

    This new callback takes a single parameter: a pyrf.vrt.DataPacket or pyrf.vrt.ContextPacket instance.

    The old method of emulating a synchronous read() interface from a pyrf.devices.thinkrf.WSA4000 instance is no longer supported, and will now raise a pyrf.connectors.twisted_async.TwistedConnectorError exception.

  • New methods added to pyrf.devices.thinkrf.WSA4000: abort(), spp(), ppb(), stream_start(), stream_stop(), stream_status()

  • Added support for stream ID context packets and provide a value for sweep ID context packet not converted to a hex string

  • wsa4000gui updated to use vrt callback

  • “wsa4000gui -v” enables verbose mode which currently shows SCPI commands sent and responses received on stdout

  • Added examples/stream.py example for testing stream data rate

  • Updated examples/twisted_show_i_q.py for new vrt_callback

  • Removed pyrf.twisted_util module which implemented old synchronous read() interface

  • Removed now unused pyrf.connectors.twisted_async.VRTTooMuchData exception

  • Removed wsa4000gui-blocking script

  • Fix for power spectrum calculation in pyrf.numpy_util

PyRF 0.3.0

2013-02-01

  • API now allows asynchronous use with TwistedConnector
  • GUI now uses asynchronous mode, but synchronous version may still be built as wsa4000gui-blocking
  • GUI moved from examples to inside the package at pyrf.gui and built from the same setup.py
  • add Twisted version of show_i_q.py example
  • documentation: installation instructions, requirements, py2exe instructions, user manual and many other changes
  • fix support for reading WSA4000 very low frequency range
  • pyrf.util.read_data_and_reflevel() was renamed to read_data_and_context()
  • pyrf.util.socketread() was moved to pyrf.connectors.blocking.socketread()
  • added requirements.txt for building dependencies from source

PyRF 0.2.5

2013-01-26

  • fix for compute_fft calculations

PyRF 0.2.4

2013-01-19

  • fix for missing devices file in setup.py

PyRF 0.2.3

2013-01-19

  • add planned features to docs

PyRF 0.2.2

2013-01-17

  • rename package from python-thinkrf to PyRF

python-thinkrf 0.2.1

2012-12-21

  • update for WSA4000 firmware 2.5.3 decimation change

python-thinkrf 0.2.0

2012-12-09

  • GUI: add BPF toggle, Antenna switching, –reset option, “Open Device” dialog, IF Gain control, Span control, RBW control, update freq on finished editing
  • create basic documentation and reference and improve docstrings
  • bug fixes for GUI, py2exe setup.py
  • GUI perfomance improvements

python-thinkrf 0.1.0

2012-12-01

  • initial release