Hi Michael,

what USRP are you using, and which version of UHD?


Best regards,

Marcus


On 16.08.2016 17:41, Michael Giallorenzo wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently trying to develop a gui for recording selected samples
> of data while viewing the spectrum (the user can watch a waterfall
> display of the readings being taken on an Ettus x310, and press and
> hold a button to record data when the spectrum looks interesting).
>
> The combination of the burst tagger block and the tagged file sink
> block in GRC seem to be the perfect solution to this, but I'm noticing
> an error whenever i change the frequency during execution. The
> timestamps recorded in the resulting filenames rapidly jump ahead in
> time (easily confirmed by comparing the filenames to the output of the
> tag debug block or writing the same data to a metadata file and
> reading its header). When I'm using my GPSDO as a time source, the
> time starts out in sync with GPS but rapidly gets corrupted as i
> change the frequency. Likewise when I use relative time, timestamps
> start at 0 but increase too quickly.
>
> As far as I can tell, this is because the tagged file sink block is
> not seeing the rx_time tags on the data stream and is instead trying
> to calculate the time based on the sample rate, but is confused when
> the changing frequency results in extra tags that are effectively
> being generated faster than expected.
>
> I'm fairly new to gnuradio and my background isn't really software but
> I've been experimenting with OOT modules and have modified a few built
> in blocks to suit my needs before. In "tagged_file_sink_impl.cc"
> around line 100, i believe time_tags_outer.size() is returning a value
> of 0 and that may be the source of my problems. Perhaps this stems
> from my lack of understanding of how the scheduler calls the work
> function (ie how is the value of noutput_items determined?), but I'm
> not really sure how to modify this or really why this is happening.
>
> Sorry if my thoughts here are kind of all over the place. Any insight
> or reading material that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike G
>
>
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