Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Messaging Passing on a Budget

2019-05-29 Thread Brad Hein
(i.e. not for usage within the same flow graph), and ideally with the > unserialized universal container that comes with such a format. Stay > tuned. However, not happening in 3.8 or anything before. > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 14:48 -0500, Brad Hein wrote: &g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two instances of the same custom block walk into a bar

2019-05-17 Thread Brad Hein
uess is that other specialized-framework environments have the same >>> issue. Fortunately, most people here are helpful regardless. >>> But it shouldn't be a growing *expectation*, IMHO. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 9, 2019, 20:46 Nick Fo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread Brad Hein
Great suggestion thank you! This also gives me new topics to read up on as I am still a VLF amateur. [Sent from mobile device] On Wed, May 15, 2019, 1:20 PM John Coppens On Thu, 2 May 2019 16:22:24 -0400 > Brad Hein wrote: > > > I took a Raspberry Pi and attached a 48KHz US

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Two instances of the same custom block walk into a bar

2019-05-09 Thread Brad Hein
les should >> probably all be declared in the header as class member variables. >> >> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:43 AM Brad Hein wrote: >> >>> I'm running into a strange issue with a new flow graph [1] I'm working >>> on that uses a custom C++ blo

[Discuss-gnuradio] Two instances of the same custom block walk into a bar

2019-05-09 Thread Brad Hein
I'm running into a strange issue with a new flow graph [1] I'm working on that uses a custom C++ block [2] that I built. The block takes input samples, performs some DSP, and outputs modified samples at the same sample rate. When the flowgraph has a single instance of my custom block enabled, it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-08 Thread Brad Hein
pi so that will also improve things... > > > > --Albin > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2019, 06:06 Brad Hein wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:19 PM Marcus D. Leech >> wrote: >> >>> On 05/07/2019 04:05 PM, Ben Hilburn wro

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-07 Thread Brad Hein
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:19 PM Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 05/07/2019 04:05 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: > > Hey Brad - just checking in! This is an interesting experiment, and I > would love to hear how it went! > > Big thanks to Kevin and JMF for providing very helpful guidance, here, too > =) > >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-07 Thread Brad Hein
ear how it went! > > Big thanks to Kevin and JMF for providing very helpful guidance, here, too > =) > > Cheers, > Ben > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 7:12 PM Kevin Reid wrote: > >> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM Brad Hein wrote: >> >>> I took a Raspberry

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-02 Thread Brad Hein
I took a Raspberry Pi and attached a 48KHz USB sound card, with a big magnetic loop antenna fed into the mic. A little cheesy? yes! But I'd like to try and see if I can receive VLF. It's in a remote location with little to no interference so I'm thinking my chances should be good. The challenge

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Messaging Passing on a Budget

2019-03-01 Thread Brad Hein
h such a format. Stay > tuned. However, not happening in 3.8 or anything before. > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 14:48 -0500, Brad Hein wrote: > > > > In my gnuradio test application I’m attempting to pass a JSON formatted > string from my

[Discuss-gnuradio] Messaging Passing on a Budget

2019-02-28 Thread Brad Hein
In my gnuradio test application I’m attempting to pass a JSON formatted string from my C++ custom block, to my python flow graph containing the block. The String message are being received by my python flow graph, but there’s a memory leak. Over time, my flowgraph RSS (memory footprint) grows

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] sound card output issue

2018-07-19 Thread Brad Hein
I see a lot of inputs to the sound card sink in the flowgraph.. could the signal be getting mixed with itself among the many inputs to the card and causing new frequency components as it gets mixed? Can you try sending the flow graph signal to just one sink input at a time (perhaps using a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Custom block not showing up in gnuradio-companion blocks list (but ok in Linux)

2018-06-02 Thread Brad Hein
eg. https://github.com/ckuethe/gr-nmea/blob/master/python/ >> nmea_gpsd.py >> Now you need to show gnuradio-companion how to use it, eg. >> https://github.com/ckuethe/gr-nmea/blob/master/grc/gps_nmea_gpsd.xml >> >> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 6:16 AM Brad Hein wrote: &g

[Discuss-gnuradio] Custom block not showing up in gnuradio-companion blocks list (but ok in Linux)

2018-05-27 Thread Brad Hein
For some reason my custom block won't show up in gnuradio on my mac (but works fine on my Linux servers). I've tried various things over the past few weeks. Not making much progress so posting here to get some suggestions. OS: OSX/Mac High Sierra. gnuradio is installed with Macports, Version

[Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio + ZeroMQ = win!

2018-05-12 Thread Brad Hein
Just a follow up to some of the issues I reported recently with the Socket PDU blocks.. Switching to ZeroMQ (ZMQ) based source and sink blocks for flowgraph-to-flowgraph communications has eliminated all of the issues I was encountering. Thanks to those who suggested trying zmq.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting gnuradio to compile with zeromq

2018-05-09 Thread Brad Hein
ingle, isolated header file, so > you can just download it from github and add it. > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 12:00 -0400, Brad Hein wrote: > > > > I'm unable to get the gnuradio cmake process to recognize that I have > zeromq installed.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Raspberry Pi 3 / Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode

2018-05-09 Thread Brad Hein
what is necessary to > know how build a correctly working kernel and base system. The meta- > raspberrypi thing is essentially the base system, atop of which you can > add packages (such as GNU Radio) to be compiled exactly for your > hardware. > > Best regards, > Marcus > >

[Discuss-gnuradio] Getting gnuradio to compile with zeromq

2018-05-09 Thread Brad Hein
I'm unable to get the gnuradio cmake process to recognize that I have zeromq installed. Every time I run cmake it ends up with gr-zeromq disabled. I tried installing zeromq and zeromq-devel version 4 (yum install zeromq zeromq-dev) but that didn't help. I also tried uninstalling the default

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Raspberry Pi 3 / Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode

2018-05-08 Thread Brad Hein
I don't follow... but I look forward to reading your blog post when it is available. On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 6:37 PM, Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> wrote: > On 05/08/2018 04:13 PM, Brad Hein wrote: > > Hi Philip, > > > > How do I go a out trying an alternative

[Discuss-gnuradio] I miss the TCP server and client blocks!

2018-05-08 Thread Brad Hein
Trying to get the socket PDU blocks to send and receive a stream of data is proving to be a significant challenge. I miss the simplicity and reliability of the TCP server and client blocks - they always "just worked" for me. I don't understand why they were deprecated only to leave us with these

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Raspberry Pi 3 / Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode

2018-05-08 Thread Brad Hein
al Pi, which has no neon support. The > volk code didn't handle this gracefully until recently. > > That said, The Pi 3 does support neon and better. For the Pi-3, I'd use > something built to take advantage of the better processor. > > Philip > > > On 05/08/2018 11:08 AM,

[Discuss-gnuradio] Raspberry Pi 3 / Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode

2018-05-08 Thread Brad Hein
On a new Raspberry Pi 3, running Raspbian, all apt-get package updates loaded, I'm encountering an error compiling gnuradio (branch: master). I made one modification from the default source code, and that is the neonasm patch to fix a different compile error with a missing instruction on the Pi.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] vector sink "malloc(): memory corruption" / object was probably modified after being freed

2018-05-01 Thread Brad Hein
t; > > > Sorry that I missed your mail for so long! > > So, I'm pretty certain I've fixed a potential race condition when > > accessing the data vector in vector sink lately: > > > > https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/pull/1445 > > > > But that should

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] nan error from wavfile sink coupled with delayed input data

2018-05-01 Thread Brad Hein
, barring great undiscovered bugs, the delay involved shouldn't > have anything to do with the data, and the error pretty certainly has > something to do with invalid input data. > Are you sure the data is always the same? > > Best regards, > Marcus > > On Thu, 2018-04-1

[Discuss-gnuradio] vector sink "malloc(): memory corruption" / object was probably modified after being freed

2018-04-15 Thread Brad Hein
The Vector Sink is coming in very handy for some experimentation I'm doing. I'm analyzing the output of an FFT block which terminates into a float vector sink. every few seconds from a thread which then calls reset() to clear the contents in preparation for another read. This seems problematic as

[Discuss-gnuradio] nan error from wavfile sink coupled with delayed input data

2018-04-12 Thread Brad Hein
error: thread[thread-per-block[22]: ]: Error in function boost::math::round(f): Value nan can not be represented in the target integer type. I have a flow graph that's connecting to a remote host on a TCP port using the socket PDU. The flow graph is relatively simple and outputs a derivative of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Floating point FFT usage - suppress half of it?

2018-03-19 Thread Brad Hein
A few final clarifying questions, inline below: On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Maximilian Stiefel < stiefel.maximil...@online.de> wrote: > Hi Brad, > > > Taking a step back, maybe the mirroring is a product of the method I'm > > using to interpret the output of the FFT. > > I really do not

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Floating point FFT usage - suppress half of it?

2018-03-18 Thread Brad Hein
e the > non-hermitian FFT is already very optimized, and leaving out the > results stage doesn't simply go and half the effort) – the main > advantage would, in practice, probably be reduced memory bandwidth. > > But: audio sample rates on modern CPUs with FFTs of benign length

[Discuss-gnuradio] Floating point FFT usage - suppress half of it?

2018-03-18 Thread Brad Hein
Frequency domain output of the FFT block seems to be mirrored when using floating point data type. I recall that when using complex numbers this mirroring doesn't occur. The input I'm working with is 48khz sound from a wav file. I understand this mirroring is a characteristic of the Fourier

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help accessing fft bins in python script

2014-10-17 Thread Brad Hein
...@gmail.com To: Brad Hein k1...@comcast.net Cc: Martin Braun martin.br...@ettus.com, discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 1:50:31 AM Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help accessing fft bins in python script Sometimes when I want to grab samples and perform some periodic operation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] help accessing fft bins in python script

2014-10-16 Thread Brad Hein
of the function probe. There are other ways, that's the one I personally find most convenient. But there are message queues and sundry other methods as well. On 2014-10-16 13:36, Brad Hein wrote: Using qa_fft.py for inspiration[1], I'm trying to feed a raw capture file

[Discuss-gnuradio] Installing the latest gnuradio and gnuradio-companion (grc) in Fedora 14

2011-01-03 Thread Brad Hein
Hello all - I wanted to share my notes for installing gnuradio in Fedora 14. There were a few snags at first but with help from the friendly folks on discuss-gnuradio, I was able to push through and compile gnuradio and gnuradio-companion in Fedora 14! Note that Installing gnuradio/grc with yum

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio

2011-01-01 Thread Brad Hein
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:12 AM, ikjtel ikj12...@yahoo.com wrote: Anybody else had any success in tapping the IQ in a receiver and feeding that into GNURadio? Yes - haven't gotten into the 9-10 MHz range IF's, but I have built converters for 455 KHz IF's - overall they work quite well

[Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio

2010-12-31 Thread Brad Hein
I'm looking for a way to tap into the unmodulated signal in my ICOM 706 MKIIG (I don't have a SDR BUT I do have a sound card, and lots of ham equipment :) ). Referring to the product service manual[1], I have found the product detector signal before it reaches the AF stages. Also it appears

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Brad Hein
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Tom Rondeau trondeau1...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Brad Hein linuxb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm endeavouring to get gnuradio+grc working in Fedora 14 on my i386 computers. I've tried two now, and I'm plagued with the same problems

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Brad Hein
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Brad Hein linuxb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Tom Rondeau trondeau1...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Brad Hein linuxb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm endeavouring to get gnuradio+grc working in Fedora 14 on my i386

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Brad Hein
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tom Rondeau trondeau1...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 12/30/2010 12:39 PM, George S. Williams wrote: On 12/30/2010 12:16 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Unfortunately the compile failed - I ran

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Brad Hein
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: On 12/30/2010 01:51 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Thank you both for your suggestions, I'll go ahead and carefully follow the instructions on the gnuradio wiki page FedoraInstall under gnuradio from tarball. BH Do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-30 Thread Brad Hein
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Josh Blum j...@joshknows.com wrote: [r...@gto ~]# gnuradio-companion Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/gnuradio-companion, line 45, in module %gr.version() AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'version' it

[Discuss-gnuradio] output 0 is not connected internally

2010-12-29 Thread Brad Hein
I'm endeavouring to get gnuradio+grc working in Fedora 14 on my i386 computers. I've tried two now, and I'm plagued with the same problems - they just won't execute. I suspect there's a problem which went undetected, maybe a python file version mismatch or some other inconsistency. I'm trying