Features discussion

[penfold42]

Is there value in a working list ?

Some ideas to start:

• [X] 2X text in menus. My aging eyesight isnt compatible with 0.96" displays!

• [X] Configurable display timeout. After 'n' seconds blank and disable the charge pump. Any button or movement will first unblank the display

• [X] (PR #64) signal strength display on the Recall screen

• [X] (PR #66) exit the menu just one level up instead of going to the main screen while pressing back

• [X] (PR #84) scanner and scanning mode

• [X] (PR #91) encoder sensitivity setting

• [X] (PR #96) audio over usb

• CAT control of USB UART

• Adjustable RF gain. If you add a PE4302/PE4312 attenuator to the 13dB preamp you could set the RF gain from -18.5 to +13dB gain. Ideally we'd use SPI bus to control it

• CW decoding on the screen and/or USB UART

• SD card recording

[dawsonjon]

I like the ideas, keep them coming. I'm working on a branch at the moment that has a configurable display timeout. Also working on improving the filters and doing more of the DSP in the frequency domain.

[mryndzionek]

Minor improvements:

• exit the menu just one level up instead of going to the main screen while pressing back

Bigger functionalities:

• SD card recording

[dawsonjon]

Sounds good to me!

[mryndzionek]

One more small feature might be encoder sensitivity setting. I've used an encoder with twice the detents than pulses and so need to have:

--- a/ui.cpp
+++ b/ui.cpp
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ void ui::setup_encoder()

 int32_t ui::get_encoder_change()
 {
-    new_position = -((quadrature_encoder_get_count(pio, sm) + 2)/4);
+    new_position = -((quadrature_encoder_get_count(pio, sm) + 1)/2);
     int32_t delta = new_position - old_position;
     old_position = new_position;
     if((settings[idx_hw_setup] >> flag_reverse_encoder) & 1)

[mryndzionek]

Two more suggestions:

• signal strength display on the Recall screen
• scanner and scanning mode

[penfold42]

I've added signal strength to Recall screen but cant decide how to present it.

• Inverted text somewhere (at the top in the example)
• Sneak a bar in somewhere (there are 3 in the example)

If I had to pick, I'd go for the inverted text at the top and the bar at the bottom...

[mryndzionek]

I've added signal strength to Recall screen but cant decide how to present it.

* Inverted text somewhere (at the top in the example)

* Sneak a bar in somewhere (there are 3 in the example)

If I had to pick, I'd go for the inverted text at the top and the bar at the bottom...

Maybe a thin vertical bar?

[penfold42]

I think you win....there was just enough room to squeeze it in. I've just pushed https://github.com/penfold42/PicoRX/tree/recall_SS and now PR #62