VibeServer for macOS — v0.3.1 Alpha
Turn a Mac with an RTL-SDR into a receiver anyone on your network can use, from a browser or from the VibeSDR app. A big step up from 0.2.1.
What's new in 0.3
- GPU waterfall. The web client's waterfall now renders on the GPU (WebGL) — crisper at any screen resolution and much lighter on the machine, especially in Chrome/Edge and on phones. Resizing the window keeps your history instead of starting over.
- Clearer weather-fax (WEFAX). Decoded charts now come in bright and readable instead of dark — for the web client, the app and the watch.
- Reworked waterfall controls. Separate Speed (how fast it scrolls on screen) and Data Rate (how many frames the server sends), so a slow link stays smooth without looking low-res. Auto adapts to the link.
- Save & compare decoder images. WEFAX and SSTV now have a Save button, and a Previous/Live switch so a new image starting doesn't lose the one you were about to save.
- Fixes: the frequency scale stays correct after changing the sample rate; steadier readouts; menu tidy-ups; typing a frequency no longer over-zooms into a blocky close-up.
Fixed in 0.3.1
- Idle power. When no one is connected, the server now stops the dongle instead of quietly processing it for nobody — CPU drops to zero rather than sitting at a few percent. It wakes the moment a listener connects. Matters most for an always-on or battery/solar setup. (This replaces 0.3.0, which had this drain.)
Notes
- Alpha: one SDR, one listener at a time. Best on your local network.
- Set a PIN if you port-forward it — listeners can change the dongle's hardware settings otherwise.
- Notarised, so a downloaded copy opens without a Gatekeeper warning. Drag VibeServer.app to your Applications folder.