VibeSDR for Android now lives at net.vibesdr.app only.
- VibeSDR-11.0.2-578.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.
VibeSDR 11.0.2
- Android now asks for a VibeServer's PIN. A PIN-protected server could not be opened from Android before. A wrong PIN asks again instead of opening a radio that never starts, and links to a PIN-protected VibeServer ask too.
- Portrait layout, from user feedback on an iPhone 12: the frequency comes first, the menu keys are never bigger than the tuning keys, MHz is no longer cut short, and a long receiver name stops before the Servers button.
- The Nixie frequency display is redrawn from a 4K HDR slow-motion recording of real IN-14 tubes cycling through their digits: every digit at its true depth in the stack with the wires in front crossing its glow, the tubes' own digit shapes, a neon glow, and the honeycomb mesh across the whole tube.
- SDRplay on a VibeServer no longer runs its RF gain up to maximum (and into overload) when the radio's own gain reading freezes: every step must now show in the signal we measure, and a frozen climb is undone.
- Advanced RDS: the left and right deviation meters read true on weak, noisy stations, where the quieter channel used to read a few kHz high.
- Hosting a VibeServer on this phone: the receiver now spreads over the processor's cores.
- RDS station names that scroll read cleanly (in the app, and in the browser on VibeServer 11.0.2). Many US stations send the song title through the 8-character station name a few letters at a time: the line now shows the call letters until the name settles instead of a jumble of pieces, a scrolling name starts at the beginning of a word, and letters a station repeats from one frame to the next are no longer doubled.
- Android: if the app ever crashes, Diagnostics now shows what went wrong (the error and where), not just that it happened. Nothing is sent unless you send the report.
VibeSDR 11.0.1
- VibeServer: the owner can use the radio's own controls when the AGC is locked. With "Lock the AGC on" set, the Airspy HF+ attenuator, preamp and AGC switch (and the SDRplay and Airspy AGC switches) refused the owner even after the admin password, so they appeared to do nothing. Listeners are still held by the lock.
- Android: the frequency no longer shrinks to a speck on the default display when the phone's font size is turned up (Settings → Display → Font size). The Nixie and analogue displays were never affected.
- Squelch on a VibeServer works at every level. On a quiet channel (an Airspy HF+ on airband, an SDRplay on medium wave) auto squelch set its line correctly but never closed, and the bottom third of the squelch bar switched it off. It now closes and opens wherever the line is, and the needle reads the same level the squelch compares. (Needs VibeServer 11.0.1 or later; on an older server it behaves as before.)
- VibeServer Portable: switching to your phone's hotspot from its own Wi-Fi now works, and the confirmation says the Portable's own Wi-Fi goes off while it looks.
- Apple Watch (iPhone app): the squelch control on the watch now works on every receiver — on a VibeServer, a KiwiSDR or OpenWebRX it did nothing.
VibeSDR 11.0
The final V11 release. Everything from the release candidates, plus, since RC42:
- Maps on Android now run on the GPU, as they do on iPhone and Mac: the vector map, and every aircraft and ground station on the HFDL map — a receiver showing 650 aircraft flies smoothly even on a budget phone. The newest aircraft's glow is far lighter on every device.
- OpenWebRX S-meter fixed: OpenWebRX servers no longer read S9 and above on plain noise. The owner's own S-meter calibration is used where they have set one; otherwise the noise sits at S3, as on a calibrated receiver.
- OpenWebRX's own AUTO SQUELCH is in the squelch section: one press sets the squelch just above what you hear.
- KiwiSDR recordings on Android play at the right speed.
- RTTY: after a short fade the decoder no longer prints the next word in figures when the fade swallowed a shift ("4583 KHZ", not "4583((0""), while DWD's synop number groups still survive fades.
- The tuning drums no longer go blank after saving a recording to another app; the name or callsign box no longer jumps about behind the keyboard.