mckero
cc4f156c83
The record could go from a screenful of text to less, and then to nothing at all, while
decoding was still running. The cause is dropBufferedAudio(), which runs on every change
of shift - and the shift tracks the detected tone, which drifts across a pass.
The live window is the only route into the archive: audio gets there by being pushed out
by newer audio. Clearing the window therefore did not merely discard 20 s, it reset the
progress towards ever archiving anything. Modelled at 18 WPM, a drift every 20 s meant
five minutes of listening archived not one character, however long the operator waited -
the window was always wiped before the first sample could be evicted. With the record
still concatenating the live decode at the time, each wipe also cut the visible
transcript short, which is the text going backwards and then never accumulating.
Retiring the window instead of dropping it fixes both. Those samples cannot stay - one
spectrogram over two shift amounts smears the tone - but they were shifted consistently
and they are complete, so they decode fine on their own. They are queued and archived by
the normal path, keeping dropBufferedAudio() non-suspending: both callers sit on the
synchronous capture path, and decoding there would put an inference inside the tone
scan. Modelled over 300 s, a drift every 5 s goes from 0 characters archived to 449.
An earlier attempt at this - keeping archiveSize instead of zeroing it - was wrong and
the probe rejected it: with the window wiped before it ever overflowed, that buffer was
empty, so preserving it preserved nothing.
The queue is synchronised (written from capture, drained from capture and flush) and
capped at four windows, dropping the oldest when full: a tone drifting on every
detection scan would otherwise queue faster than the decoder can drain.
Also from an audit of the previous two commits:
- The copy button was gated on the record, which is empty for the opening half-minute
while the first batch accumulates. That greyed out the one control that rescues the
text over exactly the short exchange most likely to be lost. It now copies the live
window too, and the empty state says which surface updates sooner.
- cw_copy, cw_copied, cw_record_label and cw_record_empty were missing from values-id,
values-in and values-tr, which carry the full UI strings, so those users saw English.
- Dropped a KDoc block left dangling by 8445c170, which had removed the constant it
documented.
Look4Sat: Satellite tracker
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.