It's all about the Software

I understand the server does not support devices with transmitters aboard. I might be wrong about that, though.
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Seems rather complete to me complete with pictures of the settings dialog. I presume if you have it connected to other objects you have a com port emulator such as com0com. If not find a com port emulator and get it running. The rest appears to be simple.

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I'm not sure you could clear even 100 Megabytes off the install and keep it stable. Being pig headed over using an under provisioned machine seems a little silly in a world of terabyte disks. (You could likely save a lot of disk space pulling manufacturer's bloatware off the machine if you've not al...

There is a lockup problem within rtlsdr dongles. Have you shut down (not restarted) your computer and restarted it or disconnected the dongle and reconnected it to see if that fixes the problem. The dongle lockup requires a hard reset for the dongle, loss of power and internal reboot when power is r...

You could verify that there is a memory leak here by monitoring memory usage over time.

Since multiple programs are crashing, perhaps there is something wrong with the computer itself. This could be as simple as over used USB connectors that have gotten flaky.

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(Waving arms) Warning Will Robinson, Warning Warning! (You gotta be old enough....)

If you make control keys and letters configurable then "press the F key" is no longer an answer to the obvious question that will arise. This way leads to the mine field.

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Different design decisions.
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OK, I'm reaching here a bit. By "very first start / boot of SDR console" do you mean first start after a reboot or first start after an install or first start each time you load SDR Console? I probably made a bad assumption here. When defining radios I (perhaps rashly) presume the two Plutos have so...

Have you tried digging around on Simon's site? You'll find this.. Hope that helps. ("this" is https://www.sdr-radio.com/SerialPort#Omni-Rig)

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See, pictures are magic. They pull answers out of the crowds using SDRC and this thing loosely called a forum.

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