Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-09-05 Thread Mike
Hi Marcus, I did some further testing. Took me some time unfortunately. The RDS reception outside is slightly better. But I still got "Lost Sync" info in the terminal window. However, I could see decoded information. I can't fight the feeling, that I am missing quite a bit of sensitivity. I did

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Thelen DK4MT
Hi Andreas, thanks for the hint. However I am using a Ettus B200 and do not have access to a different SDR right now. I will test outside and then trying to find out what is going on. BR Mike Hi Michael, i read your mail and i could remember i had a similar problem with a lot of lost sync

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-08-25 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Mike, the B200 should usually be a little more reliable than the RTL dongles; what gain setting are you using? Best regards, Marcus On 08/25/2015 02:08 PM, Michael Thelen DK4MT wrote: Hi Andreas, thanks for the hint. However I am using a Ettus B200 and do not have access to a different

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Thelen DK4MT
Hi Marcus, I hoped so, that is why I bought one ;-). I think the max is 73dB. The actual value I set with a slider is 90dB. Thus I am pretty much maxed out there. But like I wrote earlier, that is the only way to receive at least one station. Don't have good RF working conditions. Even cellular

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-08-23 Thread Michael Thelen DK4MT
Hi Marcus, thanks, tried your script and found out, that it is always a little bit uncomely if something is not really reproducible. This is the status: With your script I did not get the earlier error anymore. However with my original I did not get it either. Instead I get the following message

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-08-23 Thread Andreas Ladanyi
Hi Michael, i read your mail and i could remember i had a similar problem with a lot of lost sync and bad block messages. My solution was to use a different RTL USB stick and to play with antenna type / antenna position and the gain of the RTL stick. I used a classical lamda / 2 dipol UKW

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2015-08-22 Thread Marcus Müller
Hi Mike, dashed only means message port connection rather than item stream, so that's nothing to worry about, usually. So the bad news is that this is possible a GRC bug, which on the other hand is good news, because it means that gr-rds isn't broken, GRC just has a hard time correctly generating

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-17 Thread kai g
Hi there, I had to to do sudo install_name_tool -change /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rds/_rds_swig.so in order to point to the right python. Now it works

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Kai - gr-rds is now in MacPorts if you want to install it from there. That said, if it works from you outside of MacPorts, that's great too! Mine works nicely with a Jawbreaker, but not with my B210 because there are some issues between gr-osmosdr and UHD that we're now working on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-15 Thread Martin Braun
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:44:51AM +0100, Bastian Bloessl wrote: On 2014-01-14 14:21, Michael Dickens wrote: Not RPATH; that's messed up and I don't recommend using it any more than necessary. I'm taking about the absolute path. See my prior email on this subject. Here's what you do in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Dickens
Sure; if it's not in there already, it should be. I much prefer -all- binaries (executables, libraries, shared objects, etc) to have correct linkage include self-id -- because it's good coding practice as much as anything else. I say go for it. One of these days I'll get around to trying out

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Martin Braun martin.br...@ettus.com wrote: OK, can you please make sure I didn't mess anything up here. It's a pretty simple patch, but I know bugger-all about OSX :) https://github.com/mbr0wn/gnuradio/commit/5743258c3329824761de2823a8b59fd91a992965 Just give

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Bastian - Your change (commit 340cda20) looks like it should do the trick for the primary library. Thanks for getting that added, and so promptly! - MLD On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:44 AM, Bastian Bloessl bastian.bloe...@uibk.ac.at wrote: I never heard about install_name_dir, but I just pushed a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ulf - Your directory listings look OK. Ideally, you'd actually use /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages as the Python files install location since that's the normal for MacPorts. But, using /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages is OK and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Dickens
On Jan 14, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Bastian Bloessl bastian.bloe...@uibk.ac.at wrote: ...I guess you are talking about changing the RPATH. Can you please point me to a module that does it right so that I can change it? I checked several but didn't find the relevant parts. Not RPATH; that's messed

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-14 Thread Ulf Söderberg
Hi Michael, I tried that command you mentioned, but I can't see that the path /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages is there. {{{ python -c import sys; print sys.path }}} gives: ['', '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Pygments-1.6-py2.7.egg',

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-14 Thread Bastian Bloessl
On 2014-01-14 14:21, Michael Dickens wrote: Not RPATH; that's messed up and I don't recommend using it any more than necessary. I'm taking about the absolute path. See my prior email on this subject. Here's what you do in CMake to fix this: {{{ IF(APPLE)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-13 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Ulf - If this is still an issue, here's my US$0.02 worth: Yes: Python can't find the module. If you installed into /opt/local, then I agree with Bastian that the RDS Python related files were probably installed into /opt/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages . If you look in that directory do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-13 Thread Bastian Bloessl
On 2014-01-13 22:03, Michael Dickens wrote: That said, I'd bet that the issue is that CMake is not linking the RDS library/ies correctly. CMake has settings to correct that, which I can pass on if this is the issue; it's an easy fix to some CMakeLists.txt files. ...I guess you are talking

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-11 Thread Ulf Söderberg
Clayton and I worked on the FM RDS project over the last weeks. I think that the receiving side is in a pretty good state now. It works well with the RTL SDR. I wonder how to get this working on Mac OS X with the macports version of GNU Radio. I downloaded gr-rds and followed the install

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-11 Thread Bastian Bloessl
Hi Ulf, On 2014-01-11 22:32, Ulf Söderberg wrote: Clayton and I worked on the FM RDS project over the last weeks. I think that the receiving side is in a pretty good state now. It works well with the RTL SDR. I wonder how to get this working on Mac OS X with the macports version of GNU

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr-rds

2014-01-08 Thread Nowlan, Sean
Clayton and I worked on the FM RDS project over the last weeks. I think that the receiving side is in a pretty good state now. It works well with the RTL SDR. This is really cool! Worked right out of the box. It's decoding and displaying the local NPR station without any problems. Sean