The problem will be replicating the network analyzer functions. You have to sweep from 0 to 250 MHz, look for return loss and cross talk. So there will have to be some RF involved.
From: Lewis Bergman Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 8:08 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Cat5 certifier I now have a couple of projects for raspberry pi after my first time success. I was wandering what else might be good. I thought about my 8000 dollar fluke cable certifier and wonder how much of it's functionality could be duplicated by a pair of raspberry pi. I found a project called netpi which is more of a network tester but had some neat stuff. I think it would require a couple of ADC and RTC to do a bunch of the tests that my fluke does off the top of my head just to start with. I am not sure it is even possible, at least by me, but it seems like a worthwhile endeavor if it is possible. I am hoping to get some feedback from the genius pool who know a lot more than I about the low level phy stuff. The goal would be to actually be able to certify a cable, not just pair map and give distance to fault. I know some python but this would likely require many tests to run in something like C for speed I would assume. Thoughts?
