mckero 3810e76ea2 fix(cw): the archive path raced itself when capture stopped
flush() runs on a different coroutine from processBuffer - on pause from the screen's
own effect, and from the app scope as the screen leaves - so both were appending to
committedText concurrently. That append is a read, an inference lasting hundreds of
milliseconds, and only then a write, so the window for interleaving is the whole
inference: the later write wins and an entire batch of text is gone. Modelled over 40
trials the unlocked version lost 160 characters, averaging a full batch each time.

Worse, both paths touch archiveBuffer and archiveSize. flush() zeroes the index after
copying out a snapshot; the capture coroutine then writes from zero into slots that
snapshot already covered, so the same audio decodes twice and the text appears twice.

Both failures land at the moment the operator stops listening and starts reading,
which is the worst possible time for the record to be wrong.

archiveLock now serialises the archive path. It is a separate mutex from
inferenceLock, which is a tryLock that drops work when contended - right for the live
window, where another decode is 1.5 s away, and wrong here, where dropping a batch
discards the audio for good. Mutex is not reentrant, so archiveDecode is split into a
locking shell and archiveDecodeLocked for callers already holding it.

reset() is left unsynchronised and now says so: an archive decode in flight can land
after it returns, leaving a few characters behind. Making it suspend to close that
window would push suspension onto every caller including a button handler, and the
operator who asked to clear can ask again.
2026-08-27 15:09:24 +00:00

Look4Sat: Satellite tracker

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Radio satellite tracker and pass predictor for Android, inspired by Gpredict

Track satellite passes with ease!

Thanks to Celestrak and SatNOGS you have access to over 9000 active satellites.
You can search the entire database by NORAD Catalog Number or the satellite's name.

Orbital positions and passes are calculated relative to your location.
To get reliable data make sure to set the station position via the app Settings.

The application is built using Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose and Navigation.
It is now and always will be completely ad-free and open-source.

Main features:

  • Predicting satellite positions and passes for up to 10 days
  • Showing the list of currently active and upcoming satellite passes
  • Showing the active pass progress, polar trajectory and transceivers info
  • Showing the satellite positional data, footprint and ground track on the map
  • Custom TLE satellite data import is available via Three Line Element .txt files
  • Offline first: calculations are made offline. Weekly TLE data update is recommended.

License

The Look4Sat application code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

The CW decoder in feature/cw bundles the DeepCW neural decoding model, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only (AGPL-3.0-only). Because the combined work incorporates an AGPL-3.0 component, the combined work is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 — GPL-3.0 Section 13 permits the combination, and AGPL-3.0 Section 13 applies to the combined work as a whole. Model provenance and attribution are documented in feature/cw/licenses/NOTICE.md; the original GPL-3.0 text is preserved at feature/cw/licenses/Look4Sat-GPL-3.0.txt. The CW model runs locally on-device and does not provide services over a network.

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Satellite tracker and pass predictor for Android, inspired by Gpredict
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rtbishop.look4sat
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