That's it.įrom the Sound Input popup menu (upper right corner, Receive tab) select Streaming. In Black Cat SSTV, click on the Setup tab.Ĭheck the Use SDRuno Plugin checkbox. Then run it by double clicking on the program Black Cat SSTV.exe file. Open the resulting folder, open the SSTV_app_windows folder if needed, Note that reception quality (signal strength) must be good for this to work! You can check the Auto button for the program to automatically start and stop decoding, and likewise check Auto Save for images to be saved. And note that it is normal for different stations to require slightly different slant values. You will need to experiment with the slant setting. Likewise you can use the Slant buttons to make the image straight. It will not be correctly aligned, but you can use the Offset buttons to fix that. While Black Cat HF Weather Fax will use the fax start and stop tones to begin and end capture, you can manually trigger it, click the Start button. Try a few until you find one that you can receive. Double click on one to change the frequency.ĭue to propagation you may only be able to receive some of the transmissions on the air now. You will get a window showing fax stations on the air now, and those that will be on later. Tune to a fax station manually in SDRuno, or go to the Edit menu and select Upcoming Transmissions. You should see activity in the volume indicator and spectrum display. Make sure SDRuno is running and in PLAY mode with the volume turned up so you can hear audio, and the BlackCatSystems plugin is opened.įrom the Input Device popup menu select Streaming. This will force the settings to be saved for sure. There is a bug in the current version of the fax app, you need to set the Send and Rcv ports to 5823 respectively before checking the checkboxĬlick the X in the upper right to close the window.Ĭlick on the File menu, select Exit. In Black Cat HF Weather Fax, click on the Edit menu then select Preferences.Ĭheck the Use SDRuno Plugin checkbox. Click on the More info link, the button Run anyway will now appear, click on it. Windows will claim it "protected your PC" by not letting you run the program. Then run it by double clicking on the program Black Cat HF Weather Fax.exe file. Open the resulting folder, open the Black Cat HF Weather Fax folder if needed, Get the *latest version* which is currently 2.0.0. Go to the Black Cat HF Weather Fax download page: Note: You need at least one enabled sound input device on your system, or the app may crash It will prevent SDRuno from changing frequencies.Ī video from SDRPlay about installing/using plugins with SDRuno: Make sure you do *not* have any of the band framing buttons activated in the EXW window. Please note that at present you can only run *one* program at a time with the plugin! So if you have one running and open a second, the second will *not* work with the plugin! Quit the first program before running another. If you check Mute, then when you stream audio to the SSTV or Fax apps, it will be muted from your speaker so you don't hear it, this is optional.īelow I will describe how to configure each Black Cat Systems program to use the plugin. If you wish to use it with DXToolBox to annotate what stations are on the air, check the Annotate checkbox, and optionally Colored if you want them to be multi colored. You can close it and then re-open it if you wish. You can move it somewhere convenient but be sure to keep it open as long as you want to use it. Select it and click the LOAD PLUGINS button,it should load: Now you should see BlackCatSystems in the list of plugins. Then right click somewhere in the window (but not the list of plugins) and select the directory you took note of above. If you do not set the directory the first time you run SDRuno, you will need to do it manually:Ĭlick on the PLUGINS button in the title bar of the SDRuno Main window (upper left part of your screen) to open the plugins window, It may say it cannot find the plugins directory, if so set it to the directory you took note of earlier. If you're running firewall software on your computer, you *need* to give SDRuno as well as any of the programs working with the plugin network access. Use the default settings, make sure Community Plugins is checkedĭuring the installation process, you will see the directory it is going to install the Community Plugins into, take note of it, you will need this later!Īfter the installation finishes, navigate to C: -> Program Files x86 -> SDRPlay ->SDRuno and run SDRuno. At a minimum, you need to install/configure the plugin in SDRuno, and the app(s) you wish to use with it: It can be automatically downloaded and installed when you install SDRuno. The Black Cat Systems plugin works with SDRuno versions 1.40.2 and later. How to use the Black Cat Systems SDRuno Pluginĭownload link: Version 1.2 of the plugin for SDRuno 1.41: SDRunoPlugin_
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