When you stop and exit the software are you calling smCloseDevice or smAbort? If not it’s possible the device is still active. If you stop and exist the LED should have gone back to solid green. Flashing indicates data transfer.
I’m not aware of any outstanding issues that prevent the instrument from going between different modes like this. The API can only operate in one measurement mode at a time.
If you had two instances of your software running, this could certainly create this type of issue (let’s say your previous instance of your software didn’t fully close and is still running in the back ground) Our API does not stop you from interfacing the device from two different processes (which is not recommended or supported).
Are you monitoring the status’s returned from the API. When you mention getting garbage data, is it possible you are simply not getting any data and the API is throwing an error? (maybe you are just looking at uninitialized memory?)
If you continue to have issues after further investigations you can contact us directly at support@signalhound.com. You could also create a small sample application that illustrates the problem and we can try to reproduce it on our end.
