Franco Venturi

@dlaw - thanks for your useful comment and ideas. For this first part of my reply I am referring specifically to the RF gain/gain reduction (i.e. LNA state); more on...

@w0dz - first of all I am really sorry to hear that you are having problems using this SoapySDRPlay3 module with Python. The SoapySDRPlay3 module is an attempt to provide...

Since SoapySDR aims to be a general purpose interface for all sorts of SDRs and the designers of the SoapySDR API couldn't foresee all the possible configuration settings, they introduced...

Brian, my bad, I misunderstood your earlier question about `writeSetting()`. The way SoapySDR provides a Python API is by 'Python bindings', courtesy of SWIG (https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki/PythonSupport). SWIG is used to (almost)...

To clarify what I wrote above, Python bindings are just a mechanism to translate from the Python function calling convention (for instance almost everything in Python is a PyObject) to...

Brian, since the setting `agc_setpoint` is available in `writeSetting()`, you can set it to say -30 by writing something like this in Python: ``` sdr.writeSetting('agc_setpoint', -30) ``` The exact line...

Brian, glad to help! The steps to build SoapySDRPlay from source and install it are very simple, and you can find them in the Wiki here: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDRPlay3/wiki#building-soapy-sdr-play The part that...

If I remember correctly, the fact that only `agc_setpoint` is available in `writeSetting()` is for historical reasons; this module `SoapySDRPlay3` started as just fixes to make the previous version (`SDRPlay2`...

Brian, as far as I know a good document on how the AGC implemented by SDRplay works (or used to work) is this reference note from 2015: https://www.sdrplay.com/docs/SDRplay_AGC_technote_r2p2.pdf - unfortunately...

Good news Brian! It looks like the upcoming version of SoapySDR (version 0.9) will have a page with Python documentation and online documentation for all APIs (see announcement here: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/issues/403)....