[YARDStick] Yardstick & rfcat - no receive functions work on Windows

[Cinaed Simson]

On 11/23/2016 06:33 AM, Dave Wakelee wrote:
> With rfcat, the Yardstick One, and Windows, none of the receive functions
> appear to work.  RFlisten(), discover(), etc - all fail.  Transmit works ok.
> The error returned is...

I may be wrong but I don't think any of those commands without setting
up the device.

How do you know the device is transmitting?
> 
>   File "C:\SDR\rfcat\rflib\chipcon_usb.py", line 120, in keystop
>     return len(select.select([sys.stdin],[],[],delay)[0])
> error: (10093, 'Either the application has not called WSAStartup, or
> WSAStartup failed')
> 
> OK, no problem, searching the net reveals that the select function is
> provided by the socket library on Windows.  So, adding 'import socket'
> corrects that error.  Then, a new error...
> 
>   File "C:\SDR\rfcat\rflib\chipcon_usb.py", line 120, in keystop
>     return len(select.select([sys.stdin],[],[],delay)[0])
> error: (10038, 'An operation was attempted on something that is not a
> socket')
> 
> Again, searching the net says that select can only be used for sockets, not
> sys.stdin.
> 
> Any solution to getting the rfcat receive functions to work properly in
> Windows?

Since you seem to be certain there are no driver issues then check out
the code at

  https://github.com/AndrewMohawk/RfCatHelpers






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