VibeSDR for Android now lives at net.vibesdr.app only.
- VibeSDR-11.0-RC22-550.apk — the app. All updates come here.
- VibeSDR-legacy-11.0-RC5-531.apk — the final build of the old app (
com.vibesdr.app), kept here so you can
still get your bookmarks out: its VibeSDR has a new home notice has an EXPORT MY BOOKMARKS button; in the new
app open the frequency card → BOOKMARKS → IMPORT. Then uninstall "VibeSDR (legacy)" — with both installed, Android
has to choose which app gets a plugged-in SDR.
V11 Release Candidate 22
Since RC21
- On the VCR display every dB is written with a lower-case d, as a real display would.
- The SDRplay "AGC initialising" message shows on every start-up again — a radio that had gone idle could silence it for five minutes.
- VibeServer Lite and the app's server mode open their settings at once (they redrew for each of ~70 settings — a minute or more on a TV box), and the DAB quick scan always finishes: its result, or a plain "no answer" after 45 s.
Since RC15
DAB
- A reception meter replaces the signal bar in DAB — No signal / Weak (no or broken audio) / Moderate (occasional
break-ups) / Strong (clear audio). It judges the audio you actually hear: on DAB+ the audio units lost, on older
DAB stations the scale-factor errors that come out as "bubbling mud". A multiplex that lists stations but cannot play
now says so. The box beside it shows the multiplex's MER, and the advanced panel gains an Audio units row.
WEFAX
- Auto-align no longer cuts a chart that arrived straight; DDK charts are centred on their white border (equal white
each side) and DDK's slight lean is straightened. - ADJ is now MARGIN · SLANT · AUTO · RAW: tap MARGIN and drag the chart, tap SLANT for bigger keys you can hold,
AUTO goes back to automatic, RAW shows the chart exactly as received.
Servers
- Owners can list what their antenna covers and any filters fitted (setup page → antenna). Listeners are told when they
tune into a filtered band or outside the antenna's range, and the directory card shows them. - An SDRplay "AGC initialising" message can no longer stay up for good and hide RDS; a gain stage that does not
respond is logged.
Displays
- On the VCR display the mode, stereo rings, signal reading, kHz/MHz and the whole status row are drawn in segments,
with room for names like USB:RTTY; on the DOT display the same in dot-matrix, with real lower case. - The main controls and the station strip follow the display you chose (Nixie, dot-matrix, segments); menus, banners
and decoder boxes keep the standard easy-read font. - Recording breathes on the speaker key again (it had become a still outline in landscape and on the Mac).
- In landscape the server health and time tabs sit on the screen edge, and stay small on the side away from the
camera cut-out.
In RC15 (since RC14)
- Exit DAB now always leaves DAB. A late report from the server could reopen the DAB box a few seconds after
you left, and its EXIT then put you straight back in; EXIT now only ever exits, and the box closes with DAB. - A server set to start in DAB now starts in DAB when the app is the first to arrive — the app's own sound
connection made the server think someone was already listening, so only the web page was ever landed. - A new chat phrase beside "Sorry, didn't realise!": "Tuning back — I was listening to that".
- A server no longer stops abruptly while shutting down or restarting with an RTL dongle.
Everything in RC14
Decoders — measured on real off-air recordings, before and after
- WEFAX: every chart's slant is measured from the chart itself, so it is straight on any radio; DDK's white border
stays where it belongs, and a chart you join half way is cut in its border instead of wrapping; the status holds
"receiving" through DDK's long steady tone; a lost line is filled from the one above. - NAVTEX: a new receiver based on fldigi's (43 of 43 messages on a two-hour test, against 33 before), and a message
box — standing by, one message at a time with station, subject and how many characters were repaired or lost,
SAVE as a text file, and PREV / LIVE like WEFAX. - Time signals: shrug off lightning, combine several weak minutes into one time, handle leap seconds, tell WWV
from WWVH and show DUT1; the live line shows ?? instead of a wrong year while a minute is still unconfirmed. - RTTY: follows a drifting station.
- SSTV: PD-50, PD-90 and Robot 72 decode properly; pictures whose start announcement was lost are found; a
false start no longer swallows the next picture. - FT8: about 40 % more decodes, with extra passes only while the server has time to spare.
DAB
- In DAB the tune control is always the ‹ › keys, one multiplex per press, with the multiplex shown above them.
- A server set to start in DAB now does, and the station name clears from the display when you leave DAB.
Servers (VibeServer in the app)
- A server with one channel per listener keeps your audio and decoder running while the app is in the background,
and puts you back on your own frequency when you return. - Busy servers pace bursts of tuning so a small machine is never flooded.
- An Airspy HF+, Airspy R2/Mini, HackRF or RTL dongle that hangs or is unplugged now recovers by itself when it comes
back — or says plainly that it needs unplugging and plugging back in. - The admin page counts every CPU core a TV box has, not just the ones awake.
Everything else
- The icon and the Now Playing art follow your colour (Control Customisation → ICON & ART); the home-screen icon
changes when you leave the app. - Diagnostics now records an app crash (with private details removed) so it can be sent.
- Long-press a chat message to hide that user for the rest of your visit.
- A listed server's position is published as the centre of its grid square, as the privacy policy says.