VibeServer Lite 12.0.0 beta64 (94) — a V12 TEST build.
This is an early test of V12, not a finished release. Expect rough edges, and please report what you find. The current release is still 11.0.16.
Before you install
- It installs over Lite 11.x and keeps your settings, including its VibeSDR.net listing and address.
- Going back to 11.x needs an uninstall first, and that loses your settings — including the server's directory listing and its address, so a link you have shared stops working and the server is listed afresh.
- This build will not update itself. "Check for updates" does not offer later V12 test builds (or 11.x), so install the next beta by hand from this page. Lite 11.x will not offer this build either.
What is new in V12 (for the server and the web page it serves)
- New in beta64 — DX LOG beside the GALLERY: an idle receiver logs the FM and DAB stations it can hear, with names, signal and when each was last heard. For DAB it waits longer on each block and lets the gain settle, to pull in a weak multiplex.
- New in beta64 — DAB band scan: each multiplex is graded the way the live pane grades it (signal quality and error rate), so a moderate one no longer shows as strong. SCAN reopens the last list, SCAN AGAIN starts afresh, and once a scan exists the key reads MULTIPLEXES for every listener, shared tuners included.
- New in beta64 — DAB transmitters named on D1 and Herts Beds Bucks, and transmitter strength measured against the true noise floor.
- New in beta64 — edit a bookmark (thanks, discussion #59): your own bookmarks always; the server's bookmarks for the owner.
- New in beta64 — Icom IC-7300: AM and LSB no longer swap, the radio tunes like any shared dial ("Only I may tune this radio" is an option), the RF controls follow the same rules as an SDR's gain, decoders run from the radio's own audio (tune the VFO over the signal as usual), and the web page's tuning bar and auto contrast are fixed.
- New in beta64 — admin DAB SCAN and FM SCAN: the owner can scan from SERVER ADMIN with listeners connected; listeners see "Admin triggered a scan · Please wait" while the controls are held. The set-up page's DAB scan has moved there.
- New in beta64 — gamepad, keyboard and remote: the web page's tune and zoom keys fade away while you use one, and come back on touch or mouse (Controls menu to turn off). A small landscape screen uses the portrait status layout.
- New in beta63 — DAB pulls in weaker multiplexes: the receiver keeps more of a weak signal's detail for its error correction, so station names and audio hold on further into the noise. Strong multiplexes decode exactly as before.
- New in beta63 — NDB beacons named far better: 25 more beacons the public lists miss (Southend, Cardiff, East Midlands, Hawarden, Newquay, Merville, Weser, Belfast City, Londonderry, Beauvais and more), "Suspected X (not on list — confirm?)" for the rest, and the false EEI / ES / SE "beacons" (DGPS data read as Morse) gone.
- New in beta63 — NAVTEX fog signals: a foghorn icon for "FOG SIGNAL INOPERATIVE" warnings, and one combined marker when a light and its fog signal are both out.
- New in beta63: the shipping map on the web page opens fitted to everything heard, and the gallery's page buttons no longer vanish when you page back.
- New in beta61 — every VibeServer setting on the server screen: Background Decoding and the gallery, the whole SDRplay card (broadcast/DAB/AM notches, HDR, 24 MHz reference, VibeAGC, AGC targets, aerial by band), "Scan all DAB blocks", the impulse noise blanker and the Airspy HF+ calibration. VFO B and raw IQ settings now take effect on an ordinary Start.
- New in beta61 — tune keys that say where they go on the web page: in DAB, ISM and DIGI BAND the tune keys name the block or band they go to, with the current one bold between them.
- Broadcast FM defaults, set by you: the server screen has a BROADCAST FM DEFAULTS card — de-emphasis by region (or 50, 75 µs or off), which of ST, NR, IMS, CEQ, AUTO BW and NB start on, and whether each new listener gets these defaults or the last listener's settings. Listeners can still change them for themselves. Noise reduction now starts off.
- Names for your antenna ports: on a radio with more than one input, give each port a name ("Discone"); listeners see your names in every antenna selector.
- Decoders the radio cannot use are greyed, with the reason — a decoder on fixed frequencies the radio cannot tune (for example, a range locked to part of the FM band) says why instead of sitting silent. SAME is off by default outside the Americas and DAB off by default in the Americas; switching either is kept as your choice.
- VFO A/B: listeners can hear two frequencies on one radio at the same time, each with its own mode, filter and squelch.
- Known-signal labels: well-known utility signals in view are named with the decoder they want — RTTY, WEFAX, NAVTEX, DSC, FT8, VOLMET, the time signals and more.
- The shipping map: the NAVTEX, AIS and DSC maps are now one map in layers — ships, DSC positions, NAVTEX stations, warnings and weather — with a new SEA AREAS layer covering the UK, North America, Germany, Norway, Ireland, Spain, Japan and the southern oceans.
- Feld Hell (Hellschreiber): the signal is drawn into strips as it is heard, for listeners to read by eye.
- MFSK, Olivia, Contestia and Thor under one MFSK key: AUTO finds the sub-mode and names it; manual FAMILY and MODE settings sit underneath for when AUTO cannot lock.
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