I've been following the discussion and I'm grateful for the porting work to
3.7 as I haven't had time to do it myself. That said, I'm happy to help
with gr-ais-specific questions.

Here's a sample file recorded a couple of years ago in SF Bay. It was
recorded with a USRP1 + WBX at 256ksps.

http://www.nerdnetworks.org/~bistromath/ais.dat.tar.gz

--n


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Philip Balister <[email protected]> wrote:

> Side note, is there a data file containing AIS samples for testing
> anywhere?
>
> Philip
>
> On 09/04/2013 10:57 AM, Marcus Müller wrote:
> > Never, it's obsolete; use gr_modtool to generate a 3.7 module, and refer
> > to the GR wiki for instructions.
> >
> > On 04.09.2013 16:53, Driesprong, Fokko wrote:
> >> Hi Martin Braun,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the information. I was aware of that. When can
> >> gr-howto-write-a-block for version 3.7 be expected?
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> ing. Fokko Driesprong
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/9/4 Martin Braun (CEL) <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >>
> >>     FYI: Gruel was removed in 3.7.
> >>
> >>     See also:
> >>     http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Move_3-6_to_3-7
> >>
> >>     MB
> >>
> >>     On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 11:55:59AM +0200, Marcus Müller wrote:
> >>     > Gruel really IS a part of GNU Radio. You never need gruel /
> >>     gruel-dev on a
> >>     > system to compile GNU Radio, since the GR source tree _contains_
> >>     gruel.
> >>     > Since it is integral to GR, a gruel from a different version of
> >>     GNU Radio
> >>     > (which is most probably the case when you install it via your
> >>     package manager),
> >>     > will almost never do. Please do not mix up GNU Radio versions.
> >>     >
> >>     > On 09/04/2013 11:49 AM, Driesprong, Fokko wrote:
> >>     >
> >>     >     Hi Marcus,
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     Thanks for the response and thoughts.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on the beaglebone. I don't use any
> >>     GUI, and I
> >>     >     start the gr-ais script from the commandline. With the
> >>     cortex A8 and neon
> >>     >     co-processor the beaglebone is suprisingly powerfull.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     Currently I am developing on a Ubuntu 13.10 desktop with the
> >>     same gnuradio
> >>     >     (3.7.2) and with the libgruel-dev and libgruel0 package
> >>     uninstalled. I
> >>     >     don't have these available on the beaglebone. I believe when
> >>     I run 3.7 with
> >>     >     the gruelpackage remove (since it is depricated), it uses
> >>     the methods from
> >>     >     these packages. Please correct me if I am wrong on this.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     Maybe I will go back to 3.6 to check if the Beaglebone is
> >>     powerfull enough.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     Kind regards,
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     Fokko Driesprong
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >     2013/9/3 Marcus Müller <[email protected]
> >>     <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >         Hi Fokko,
> >>     >
> >>     >         awesome project!
> >>     >         Although this might not actually help the matter on hand
> >>     much:
> >>     >         Compiling something as big as GNU Radio on something as
> >>     weak and
> >>     >         embedded as a beaglebone is a really bad idea, since
> >>     especially the
> >>     >         linking process requires large amounts of RAM and I
> >>     would not guarantee
> >>     >         that it will work with only 512MB RAM at all.
> >>     >
> >>     >         So for your porting efforts, you really should work on a
> >>     fully fledged
> >>     >         PC. When everything is up and running, you might want to
> >>     cross-compile
> >>     >         GNU Radio and gr-ais for your beaglebone; but the latter
> >>     really should
> >>     >         not be your development environment of choice.
> >>     >
> >>     >         You should not install a version of gruel that does not
> >>     belong to your
> >>     >         GR version, so fetching gruel from your package manager
> >>     and installing
> >>     >         GR from git does not sound ok; gruel is part of the GNU
> >>     Radio runtime
> >>     >         and therefore is not necessary to install GNU Radio.
> >>     >
> >>     >         So: On your PC, uninstall gruel using your package
> >>     manager, build and
> >>     >         install GNU Radio from source  (using the build-gnuradio
> >>     script or even
> >>     >         better pybombs), and port gr-ais to GR3.7.
> >>     >
> >>     >         When that works, set up a cross-compiling environment
> >>     for your linux of
> >>     >         choice on the beaglebone (I'm tempted to say Ubuntu
> >>     13.10 is not the
> >>     >         right distribution for an embedded environment that is
> >>     less powerful
> >>     >         than recent smartphones), and compile GNU Radio for
> >>     that; do the same
> >>     >         for gr-ais and install both on your beaglebone.
> >>     >
> >>     >         Hope I was of assistance anyhow,
> >>     >         Marcus Müller
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             Dear Gnuradio members,
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             I am working on a port for GR-AIS to version 3.7.
> >>     The initial
> >>     >             version was for GN3.3, later it is merged to CMake.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             The problem is that I am trying to compile Gnuradio
> >>     with the gr-ais
> >>     >             extension on a beaglebone black (bbb). I managed to
> >>     compile 3.7 on
> >>     >             the bbb, but the problem is that I don't have GRUEL
> >>     available. On a
> >>     >             x86 it is possible to pull (libgruel) from the
> >>     package-manager. So
> >>     >             I decided that the fastest to get everything running
> >>     is to upgrade
> >>     >             gr-ais to version 3.7. I managed to do this using
> >>     the wiki.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             I believe that the cpp is up and running, it
> >>     compiles fine, but am
> >>     >             running into some problems with CMake. I haven't
> >>     worked with CMake
> >>     >             before, so I haven't worked with the scripting
> >>     earlier. The problem
> >>     >             is CMake+SWIG. When Python tries to invoke Boost it
> >>     gives an error.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>     >
> >>     >               File "/usr/local/bin/ais_rx.py", line 15, in
> <module>
> >>     >
> >>     >                 from gr_ais import *
> >>     >
> >>     >               File
> >>     "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gr_ais/__init__.py",
> >>     >             line 45, in <module>
> >>     >
> >>     >                 from gr_ais_swig import *
> >>     >
> >>     >               File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gr_ais/
> >>     >             gr_ais_swig.py", line 26, in <module>
> >>     >
> >>     >                 _gr_ais_swig = swig_import_helper()
> >>     >
> >>     >               File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gr_ais/
> >>     >             gr_ais_swig.py", line 22, in swig_import_helper
> >>     >
> >>     >                 _mod = imp.load_module('_gr_ais_swig', fp,
> >> pathname,
> >>     >             description)
> >>     >
> >>     >             ImportError:
> >>     /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gr_ais/
> >>     >             _gr_ais_swig.so: undefined symbol:
> >>     >             _ZN5boost6system15system_categoryEv
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             I have re-installed Ubuntu 13.10 and installed
> >>     gnuradio with the
> >>     >             latest git version. The make test succeeded. I have
> >>     forked the
> >>     >             gr-ais repository into a seperate public repo.
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             If someone has any idea, please let me know!
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             Kind regards,
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >             ing. Fokko Driesprong
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>     >
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> >>
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