so ive been messing around with remote station control for a while now and finally got my main rig accessible via RemoteHams but im wondering if anyone has taken it further and done the SDR side through the same platform or if you ended up just running like a separate SDR server alongside it. my setup is a 7300 at the remote site and i put a rtlsdr dongle on the same machine mostly to use as a panadapter feed but getting that to actually show up cleanly through the remote connection has been kind of a headache

also thinking about internet linking for the local repeater club which is a whole different thing but figured maybe someone here has done both and could share how they managed the bandwidth situation because when the SDR is streaming and the rig audio is also going over the same connection things get ugly fast. running about 15mb upload at the remote site which should be enough but apparently isnt lol

any thoughts appreciated, esp if youve dealt with the audio sync issues on RemoteHams when theres packet loss

yeah i ran almost exactly this setup for about a year, 7300 plus a rtlsdr on the same box at my remote site. what i found is RemoteHams doesnt really play nice with a simultaneous SDR stream unless you throttle the SDR sample rate way down, like 1.024 Msps or even lower. the panadapter looked terrible but at least it didnt kill the rig audio. eventually i just moved the SDR to a separate pi and ran SDR-connect or whatever its called now on a different port, kept them totally separate and the bandwidth issues mostly went away

the audio sync thing you mentioned is a known pain with RemoteHams when the connection gets flaky. theres a jitter buffer setting buried in the client config that helped me a lot, i think i set it to something like 200ms which adds a tiny bit of latency but way better than the choppy garbage i was getting before. not sure where your packet loss is coming from but if its on the remote site end theres not a ton you can do except get a better connection or add a 4g backup

internet linking and SDR remote are kinda two different rabbitholes honestly, i wouldnt mix them on the same planning if that makes sense. for the repeater linking you probably want to look at allstar or maybe IRLP depending on what the club already has going, SDR streaming is more of a personal shack thing. i run my remote with just the rig audio and skip the panadapter entirely when im mobile because the latency on the visual stuff annoys me more than helps

15mb upload should be fine for one rig connection, thats way more than needed for compressed audio. id suspect something else is going on, maybe QoS on your router isnt prioritizing the audio packets and the SDR stream just eats everything. throw the rig traffic on a higher priority queue and see if that cleans it up before you mess with anything else