Off topic - Matplotlib

Hi, is there anyone familar enough with matplotlib to help me to get more values on an x axis for the frequency.

It’s all about https://www.pe2bz.nl/hamradio/skymonitor/rtlsat_power.png where I would like more values, like every 1 MHz or even every 0.5 MHz

Thanks,
Ben

python code is available over here GitHub - zanco/waterfall: waterfall python script for rtl_power output

After spending multiple hours with chatgpt and copilot, for which the latest even recognizes when a suggestion fails I am running the script on python2 and suggest that we should convert the script to be compatible with python3 I received a converted script which gave 7 errors about incompatible instructions used for python3. The bots do suggest solutions for each error seperately but both where not capable of changing the code in the first conversion.

Bot suggested to print a line on the x axis with the values from 430 to 440 MHz in 0.5 MHz steps which breaks the idea of passing start,and end frequency to the script for flexibility.

For now, back to python2 and only 5 values over 10 MHz of waterfall.

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