so ive been messing around with remote station control for about 6 months now and i finally got a somewhat stable setup going but im running into some stuff that i cant quite figure out and wanted to see if anyone here has dealt with the same things

my main rig is an IC-7300 sitting at a friend's place out in the country, way better noise floor than my HOA nightmare of a QTH. im using RemoteHams to connect to it which mostly works fine for SSB and CW but i started looking at adding an SDR alongside the main radio for panadapter style monitoring and thats where things got complicated. the latency on the audio side is already like 150-180ms which is workable but adding the SDR stream on top of that over the same connection just murders the bandwidth and the whole thing falls apart

also been poking around with some internet linking stuff, was thinking about tying in an Allstar node at the remote end so i could do some local VHF monitoring while im on HF with the 7300 but im not sure if running all of that through one connection is just asking for trouble. anyone running a similar multi-radio remote setup? is there a smarter way to handle the bandwidth or should i just give up on the SDR remote piece and stick with the RRC-1258 style approach for the main rig

the SDR over RemoteHams thing is kind of a known headache, the protocol wasnt really designed with that extra data stream in mind and you end up fighting the latency compensation all the time. what i ended up doing at my remote site was running the SDR on a totally separate path, like its own little linux box with spyserver on it and i just connect to that independently from the RemoteHams session. keeps them from stepping on each other and i can actually kill the SDR stream if the connection gets flaky without losing control of the main radio

as for the allstar node, i mean yeah you can do it but you're right that its a lot to ask of one connection. depends a lot on your uplink speed at the remote end. if your buddy has anything decent like 10mbps+ upload it probably works okay but if hes on some DSL remnant from 2009 you're gonna have a bad time

ran almost this exact setup for about a year, IC-7610 remote with a Pi running spyserver for the SDR piece. honestly the separate connection approach the other guy mentioned is the right call. i tried to be clever and do it all through one tunnel and it was just flaky enough to be annoying, never fully broken just never fully right either

the allstar thing i never did myself but a guy in my club has it running alongside his remote HF setup and he says it works fine as long as you QoS the HF control traffic. apparently allstar is pretty tolerant of a little jitter but the rig control stuff absolutely is not so you prioritize that and let allstar take whatever is left over