Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] cant see any signals with limesdr on osmocom source

2017-12-13 Thread John Shields
I am not sure if I understand the problem. The first shot shows a spectrum centred around 2.4766GHz, but the second has an display of 2.399 to 2.401 GHz - since these ranges (from my point of view) don't overlap, I am not sure how this relates to not being able to see a signal in one versus

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python synchronisation of 2xUSRP N200 with SBX in one UHD container.

2017-09-18 Thread John Shields
On 18/09/17 21:27, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 09/18/2017 05:21 PM, John Shields wrote: On 18/09/17 20:52, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 09/18/2017 03:49 PM, John Shields wrote: Thanks,     I have attached the GRC. I should note that before I run, I wait until GPS is locked as evinced

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python synchronisation of 2xUSRP N200 with SBX in one UHD container.

2017-09-18 Thread John Shields
On 18/09/17 20:52, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 09/18/2017 03:49 PM, John Shields wrote: Thanks,     I have attached the GRC. I should note that before I run, I wait until GPS is locked as evinced by the query_gpsdo_sensor utility:     GPS Locked     Trying to align

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python synchronisation of 2xUSRP N200 with SBX in one UHD container.

2017-09-18 Thread John Shields
: On 09/18/2017 12:41 AM, John Shields wrote: Thanks, as always, Marcus,    Here is the relevant code I am executing:     self.uhd_usrp_source_0.set_clock_source('gpsdo', 0)     self.uhd_usrp_source_0.set_time_source('gpsdo', 0

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python synchronisation of 2xUSRP N200 with SBX in one UHD container.

2017-09-17 Thread John Shields
.   Kind Regards,   John On 18/09/17 03:20, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 09/15/2017 05:38 PM, John Shields wrote: Hi,     One has O/B GPSDO, the other connected by MIMO cable on Ubuntu  with UHD_003.010.002.000     From the /manual/page_sync.html page there is information on how

[Discuss-gnuradio] Python synchronisation of 2xUSRP N200 with SBX in one UHD container.

2017-09-15 Thread John Shields
Hi,     One has O/B GPSDO, the other connected by MIMO cable on Ubuntu  with UHD_003.010.002.000     From the /manual/page_sync.html page there is information on how to align the CORDICs and LOs of SBX.     I have modified the python generated by a GRC FG and here are the relevant changes

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Synchronisation

2017-09-13 Thread John Shields
. Kind Regards, John On 12/09/17 21:12, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: Use "unknown PPS" on both of them. The MIMO cable shares both REFCLOCK and 1PPS signals, so they will both be synchronized to the same time. On 2017-09-12 16:13, John Shi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Synchronisation

2017-09-12 Thread John Shields
SRPs between tests or just rerunning the GRC flowgraph? Do you have shared 10 MHz and 1 PPS references? What version of UHD is printed in the output? Thanks, Derek On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:50 AM, John Shields <sla1nte2...@gmail.com <mailto:sla1nte2...@gmail.com>> wrote: Th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Synchronisation

2017-09-11 Thread John Shields
Thanks for the feedback but I am not sure that I understand it. What I was hoping to do was step through the configurations with increasing levels of synchronisation and expecting to see same. Marcus' comment is correct and I have not, yet, put in the code which synchronises SBXs. I guess

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-17 Thread John Shields
On 07/17/2017 03:43 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/17/2017 03:41 AM, John Shields wrote: On 17/07/17 05:53, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/17/2017 12:47 AM, John Shields wrote: Even after I re-installed pyephem (for python 2) the issue continues i.e. logger_tp undefined

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-17 Thread John Shields
location, figure out what's missing after that, and rebuild. Best regards, Marcus On 07/17/2017 03:43 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/17/2017 03:41 AM, John Shields wrote: On 17/07/17 05:53, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/17/2017 12:47 AM, John Shields wrote: Even after I re

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-17 Thread John Shields
On 17/07/17 05:53, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/17/2017 12:47 AM, John Shields wrote: Even after I re-installed pyephem (for python 2) the issue continues i.e. logger_tp undefined and malloc error. GRC is sane in that I can instantiate a USRP source and display it's FFT

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-16 Thread John Shields
On 17/07/17 03:08, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/16/2017 11:03 PM, John Shields wrote: Hi Marcus, An update - i reinstalled python-wxgtk2.8 and that dependency was satisfied when I re-ran Marcus' build_gnuradio script. When I run the same command as before, I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-16 Thread John Shields
On 17/07/17 03:08, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 07/16/2017 11:03 PM, John Shields wrote: Hi Marcus, An update - i reinstalled python-wxgtk2.8 and that dependency was satisfied when I re-ran Marcus' build_gnuradio script. When I run the same command as before, I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-16 Thread John Shields
nt RX2 --srate 10.0e6 --dbw 8.0e6 --freq 1420.4057e6 --gain 37.5 --dcg 1000 --lrate 30 --integ 30 --devid uhd='a',type=usrp2,addr=192.168.10.2,lo_offset=7.34e6,subdev=A:0 --longitude 172.570925 --latitude -43.519023 and then something like grep osmosdr opened_files.txt Then, simply

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-16 Thread John Shields
:) Best regards, Marcus On 07/16/2017 11:44 AM, John Shields wrote: Thanks Marcus, I used the other Marcus' build_gnuradio script and I believe that it rebuilt gr-osmosdr. How would I check? I built 3.7.11.1 on July 7th on 14.04 LTS and today,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-16 Thread John Shields
:53 AM, John Shields wrote: Hi, While I usually regret it, I decided to update my Ubuntu system from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS and it seemed to go fine. I rebuilt GNURadio and UHD and that seemed to go fine but when I run Simple_ra with: simple_ra --aperture 2.4 --ant RX2 --srate 10.0e6 --dbw

[Discuss-gnuradio] Core Dump with Simple_ra and an upgraded Ubuntu system from 14.04 to 16.04 LTS today.

2017-07-16 Thread John Shields
Hi, While I usually regret it, I decided to update my Ubuntu system from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS and it seemed to go fine. I rebuilt GNURadio and UHD and that seemed to go fine but when I run Simple_ra with: simple_ra --aperture 2.4 --ant RX2 --srate 10.0e6 --dbw 8.0e6 --freq 1420.4057e6

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] simple_ra and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-31 Thread John Shields
. Mai 2016 01:53:54 MESZ, schrieb John Shields <sla1nte2...@gmail.com>: On 30/05/16 22:29, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/30/2016 06:27 PM, John Shields wrote: oops, it was not simple_ra that I tried to re-compile against the new GNURadio etc., it was gr-ra_

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] simple_ra and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-30 Thread John Shields
On 30/05/16 22:29, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/30/2016 06:27 PM, John Shields wrote: oops, it was not simple_ra that I tried to re-compile against the new GNURadio etc., it was gr-ra_blocks. Sorry, John Which is a pre-req for simple_ra

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] simple_ra and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-30 Thread John Shields
On 30/05/16 22:05, John Shields wrote: Hi, Since I moved from 14.04 LTS to 15.10 a couple of weeks ago, I have been experiencing segmentation faults on i965_dri (graphics rendering). In order to (hopefully) move away from this issue, yesterday I upgraded to 16.04 LTS and rebuilt

[Discuss-gnuradio] simple_ra and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

2016-05-30 Thread John Shields
Hi, Since I moved from 14.04 LTS to 15.10 a couple of weeks ago, I have been experiencing segmentation faults on i965_dri (graphics rendering). In order to (hopefully) move away from this issue, yesterday I upgraded to 16.04 LTS and rebuilt GNURadio (3.7.9.2) and UHD using Marcus'

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OpenGL running out of memory

2016-05-29 Thread John Shields
, and it doesn't always help if your system randomly hangs in WX things, but if it solves this: find (or create) your ~/.gnuradio/config.conf and add [wxgui] style = nongl Best regards, Marcus On 29.05.2016 02:22, John Shields wrote: Hi, Have GNURadio 3.7.9.2 installed on Ubuntu 15.10. I

[Discuss-gnuradio] OpenGL running out of memory

2016-05-28 Thread John Shields
Hi, Have GNURadio 3.7.9.2 installed on Ubuntu 15.10. I have been running simple_ra but don't believe that is germane to the problem at hand. I am running simple_ra_receiver under debug (have seen segmentation errors in libc in the past and trying to narrow down) but, again, don't

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio segmentation fault

2016-05-22 Thread John Shields
On 22/05/16 11:06, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/22/2016 05:19 AM, Marcus Müller wrote: Hi John, I don't really know about the memory usage you see, but: Did you rebuild GNU Radio (and UHD and basically everything you did not install directly through Ubuntu's apt-get)? Upgrading a distro often

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio segmentation fault

2016-05-22 Thread John Shields
Dear All, I have been running GNURadio fairly constantly for a couple of weeks now using simple_ra although, I don't believe it is a problem with that application as HTOP doesn't indicate memory issues etc. I run GNURadio version 3.7.9.1 on an Intel® Core™ i7-2600

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

2016-05-03 Thread John Shields
/16 19:12, mle...@ripnet.com wrote: The native BER of 1000BASE-T is better than 1.0e-11 or so. Which means you'd expect a bad bit roughly every half-hour at 2msps (64Mbit/sec), the bad-bit probabilities get worse as you make the cable longer. On 2016-05-03 12:59, John Shields wrote: On 03

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

2016-05-03 Thread John Shields
' treatment? On 2016-05-03 04:32, John Shields wrote: Thanks Marcus, Have put answers in-line. Kind Regards, John ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org <mailto:Discuss-gnura

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

2016-05-03 Thread John Shields
Thanks Marcus, Have put answers in-line. Kind Regards, John On 03/05/16 08:20, Marcus Müller wrote: On 03.05.2016 09:52, John Shields wrote: On 03/05/16 02:58, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/02/2016 10:40 PM, John Shields wrote: the system runs

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

2016-05-03 Thread John Shields
On 03/05/16 02:58, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/02/2016 10:40 PM, John Shields wrote: Hi, I am using Ubunutu 14.04 LTS with GNURadio 3.7.9.1 and have a USRP N200 with SBXv3. I have been using the aptly-named and highly useful Simple_ra though I believe this is orthogonal to the issues I am

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

2016-05-03 Thread John Shields
On 03/05/16 02:58, Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 05/02/2016 10:40 PM, John Shields wrote: Hi, I am using Ubunutu 14.04 LTS with GNURadio 3.7.9.1 and have a USRP N200 with SBXv3. I have been using the aptly-named and highly useful Simple_ra though I believe this is orthogonal to the issues I am

[Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

2016-05-02 Thread John Shields
Hi, I am using Ubunutu 14.04 LTS with GNURadio 3.7.9.1 and have a USRP N200 with SBXv3. I have been using the aptly-named and highly useful Simple_ra though I believe this is orthogonal to the issues I am seeing. when I run simple_ra with : simple_ra --srate 2e6 --freq 848e6 --gain 37

[Discuss-gnuradio] Limit on file_sources in GRC ?

2012-06-22 Thread John Shields
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, GNU Radio 3.6.1git-2-g2c7ea132 (on i7). I have a simple GRC flow with a couple of file sources - these are FIFOs. I have a separate application which will simulate various antenna configurations and it attempts to open both of these FIFOs in O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK . As the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Limit on file_sources in GRC ?

2012-06-22 Thread John Shields
On 23/06/12 14:00, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, GNU Radio 3.6.1git-2-g2c7ea132 (on i7). I have a simple GRC flow with a couple of file sources - these are FIFOs. I have a separate application which will simulate various antenna configurations and it attempts to open both of these

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] shift param in FFT block in GRC

2012-06-13 Thread John Shields
On 12/06/12 21:00, Martin Braun wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 08:19:21PM +1200, John Shields wrote: When I add a FFT block in the GRC (gr_fft_vxx if I understand things correctly) I am offered a boolean parameter 'shift'. When I attempt to discern the code, there is a comment: // apply

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC - converting complex stream to vector for FFT

2012-06-06 Thread John Shields
On 06/06/12 18:40, Josh Blum wrote: On 06/05/2012 11:38 PM, John Shields wrote: Hi Josh, It turns out I was using the block I think you were recommending. Here is a picture of the flowgraph with the red arrow which would appear to be an issue as, with it present, the flow graph

[Discuss-gnuradio] GRC - converting complex stream to vector for FFT

2012-06-02 Thread John Shields
I have complex multiplied a couple of 1 msps complex values and I wish to do a 2048 FFT so am trying to convert to 2048-length vector but I cannot find a suitable block in the 'stream conversion' group of GRC. By making vec length 2048 I get the correct kind of connector on the output of the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC - converting complex stream to vector for FFT

2012-06-02 Thread John Shields
Thanks, Josh. Will give it a whirl. Kind Regards, John On 03/06/12 05:33, Josh Blum wrote: On 06/02/2012 01:00 AM, John Shields wrote: I have complex multiplied a couple of 1 msps complex values and I wish to do a 2048 FFT so am trying to convert to 2048

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Decimating FIR Filter Taps and gr.firdes.complex_band_pass incompatibility - Marcus SARA SID SDR

2010-09-26 Thread John Shields
Thanks very much Marcus. I eventually figured out that in the variable block, I needed to include: gr.firdes.complex_band_pass (gain,sampling_freq,low_cutoff_freq, high_cutoff_freq, transition_width, window = WIN_HAMMING,beta = 6.76) and when I plugged in some variables based on the b/w and

[Discuss-gnuradio] Decimating FIR Filter Taps and gr.firdes.complex_band_pass incompatibility - Marcus SARA SID SDR

2010-09-25 Thread John Shields
In the April/May 2010 SARA Journal, Marcus Leech had an article entitled Building an SDR SID Receiver in an Afternoon which was highly information and inspirational. While my sound card only goes to 48 KHz sampling, I decided to try his implementation and in terms of entry into GRC, things have

[Discuss-gnuradio] Build issues on native Ubuntu (Jaunty)

2010-09-23 Thread John Shields
Have given up on WUBI (Lucid) and build/install according to gnuradio../wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall Decided to install boost_1_37_0 as _1_44_0 did not conform to instructions on above wiki. This allowed me (Under Installing GNU Radio section) to ./configure --with -boost=$BOOST_PREFIX which had

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNRU Radio Build issues on native Ubuntu (Jaunty)

2010-09-23 Thread John Shields
Have given up on WUBI (Lucid) environment and build/install according to gnuradio../wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall on a native Ubuntu(Jaunty) Decided to install boost_1_37_0 as _1_44_0 which I used previously as it was the latest version, did not conform to instructions on above wiki. This allowed

[Discuss-gnuradio] Is WUBI (Lucid) a viable environment for GNU-Radio (3.2.2) ?

2010-09-21 Thread John Shields
I recently purchased a USRP and have a fresh install of WUBI (HP Pavillion DV5 , Windows Home Vista) and used gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall to install things. I passed 'make check' correctly I have my username in the group usrp j...@ubuntu:~/gnuradio$ ls -lR /dev/bus/usb |

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Is WUBI (Lucid) a viable environment for GNU-Radio (3.2.2) ?

2010-09-21 Thread John Shields
and O is overrun? I briefly looked at the source but am not familiar with GNU_Radio and it's classes. Thanks again for your suggestion, Regards, John - Original Message - From: Eric Blossom e...@comsec.com To: John Shields john.shie...@xtra.co.nz Cc: discuss