We are pleased to announce the release of wfview v2.00
This release is a major re-write of many portions of wfview, and adds lots of new features, so initially some problems are to be expected, especially with older (non-scope) radios.
Most testing has been completed with radios that have a Spectrum Scope (as they are the radios that we own). If you have a radio that isn’t detected correctly, then we may need to create a new .rig file for it.
Highlights:
IP+, NB, NR, Digisel (DS) on/off controls for main RX
VOX, COMP on/off
rig definition files. Adding a new rig was never so easy
That means the file is still downloading… once downloaded, the file will be called wfview.zip and it will extract the wfview application automatically by default on MacOS. Simply drag that to the Applications folder
I just downloaded it and it installed fine, can see the radio across the network, and audio appears to be working but the virtual serial is not. HRD is unable to talk to the radio.
Version 1.2 is fine, works great, but 2.0 will not pass HRD through to the rig.
I have Windows 11, Icom IC-7610 and hard wired ethernet connection.
The virtual serial port program can see wfview open the port 115,200 8.n.1 which is how HRD is set but it cannot talk to the radio.
I have tried swapping the virtual serial ports pair 2-3 and 3-2 and same issue.
I have changed the settings, saved and restarted WFVIEW each time to no avail.
Any suggestions?
As I said, I can close 2.0 and then open 1.2 and it works fine.
To be honest, I don’t think we have tested the virtual serial port function for a while as it hasn’t really changed since v1.64. I will have a look but you may need to stick to older versions for a while.
I have tried several times to install unsuccessfully. I have deleted
the wfview directories and re-installed, but now I receive the
following message after the install (Windows 11): Unhandled exception
at 0x001457B8 in wfview.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading
location 0x00000008.
A disassembly shows the following code causing the exception:
mov ecx,dword ptr [edx+8]
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Mac version no longer crashes and connects fine. I can transmit locally from the server PC (Windows) but cannot transmit from any remote connection whether it’s a windows or Mac. Radio is a IC-718 with a Digimode-4 interface.
@NR6J When you say you tried to install unsuccessfully, exactly what was unuccessfull? We need details. It looks like the install may not have completed. Some screenshots may be useful.
The IC-718 doesn’t have a CI-V command for Transmit, which means that wfview must TX using the serial RTS signal, we don’t currently have a way of sending that over the network connection. I will have to think about that one!
OK I have found the issue (and fixed it), we will most likely find a number of things like this in the next few days, so I will try to fix the easy ones and probably do a 2.01 release soon!
I retried with 1.64 and that didn’t work either. Actually, the
installation ran correctly. I get the error message when I try to
start with the installed shortcut from the menu. I quoted the error
message in my previous e-mail.
On my windows 10 machine, I have upgraded to 2.0 and connected to my IC7610. Works without major issues. The line in the spectrum scope seems a bit hectic. When you are operating the 7610 with synched VFOs and Dual-Watch, it sometimes gets out of synch (I have to look closer into it).
A problem exists when I use my IC7300 with a raspberry as WFView Server (with 2.00). The tuner as well as the CW sender are not accessible. When I try FLDigi, there is no access to the radio control with the “old” settings. A config with virtual ports doesn’t work as well (I like that, because in that scenario I could use the cw mode, when transmitting via FLDigi),
Just for information, the setup IC7300 with WFView 1.64 Server on a Raspberry, used by WFView 2.00 on a windows 10 machine, works as well (also without Tuner and CW).
So, no to get mixed up, there three set ups here parallel
The Tuner and CW “should” be accessible, I will check with my IC7300 (It is possible I have missed these commands in the IC-7300.rig file.) Yes virtual serial ports are not working in this version, This is already fixed in Gitlab and I plan to release a new version in a few days (once we have a few more bugs to squash!)
Yes I had missed those out of the .rig file. I have attached the updated file, you can copy that into the [wfview install directory]\rigs folder and restart wfview IC-7300.rig (24.9 KB)
