Improve PlutoSDR device identity handling to correctly distinguish
multiple libiio backends (IP, USB, etc.) and provide stable grouping
of physically identical hardware in the UI.
- Append backend prefix to scanned device serials to ensure uniqueness
across multiple discovery paths (e.g. "<serial>_ip", "<serial>_usb").
This prevents collisions when the same device is visible through
different transports.
- Add physical serial extraction and grouping logic so that devices
discovered via multiple backends are treated as a single physical
unit for display purposes. This stabilizes UI numbering and avoids
duplicate entries for the same hardware.
- Update enumOriginDevices() to:
- group devices by physical serial rather than scan index
- assign stable per-device indices independent of backend enumeration
- include backend label in the display name to distinguish connection
paths when multiple backends are active
- Introduce helper utilities:
- createBackendSuffix(): extract backend identifier from libiio URI
- getPhysicalSerial(): strip backend suffix for grouping logic
- getBackendLabel(): format backend suffix for user-facing display
These changes ensure:
- unique internal identifiers per backend connection
- consistent grouping per physical device across discovery mechanisms
- improved UI clarity when multiple access paths exist for the same SDR
No change to RF/data path behavior; this is purely a discovery and
presentation-layer refactor.
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz503@gmail.com>
Convert tab-based indentation to spaces to match the project's
existing coding style. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz503@gmail.com>
Fixes#681.
Relying on memory allocated by `std::vector` via direct pointers is dangerous,
as vectors may move buffers during resize. This fix puts the `DeviceScan`
allocation into a `str::shared_ptr`, which 1) allocates the memory on heap and
2) keeps track of the memory through reference counting. Thus it is safe to
store the `shared_ptr` across different vectors/maps.
Robin Getz
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Andreas Baulig
Sebastian Weiss