Bug 872 - no notification that acquisition failed or was short
Summary: no notification that acquisition failed or was short
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: PulseView
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Acquisition (show other bugs)
Version: unreleased development snapshot
Hardware: All All
: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2016-11-30 13:04 CET by karlp
Modified: 2017-02-26 22:08 CET (History)
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Description karlp 2016-11-30 13:04:23 CET
Particularly at some higher samplings rates, some devices can fail to provide the requested data depth.  sigrok-cli at least shows a message like, "Device only sent 42048160 samples." [1]  Pulseview gives no indication that anything went wrong, you just get a shorter dataset.

I'm not really suggesting a popup warning, but perhaps in a (non existant) status bar? or coloured notifications around something to indicate that it failed?  Just _some_ sort of feedback.


[1] Which isn't very good, but it's far better than nothing.  It should really be able to say...

"received only xxx/yyy samples (zz%)" or "received only xxx/yyy ms (zz%)" depending on whether limits were specified based on samples or time.
Comment 1 Piotr Esden-Tempski 2017-02-26 22:08:21 CET
I can confirm that this issue is present. It should also include cases when the aquisition did not result in any data. (sigrok-cli does not report an error in that case either, only if partial data has been received)