Re: Watchdog for GNU Radio

2020-11-07 Thread Kevin Reid
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 8:03 AM Kopa Rebu wrote: > My understanding is that I've to shut down the flowgraph when the failure > situation is detected, and after that, I have to relaunch it using some OS > provided facility, right? > There are several options: First, you can call

Re: Watchdog for GNU Radio

2020-11-07 Thread Kopa Rebu
Regarding your first point, you're right, but I couldn't find the cause yet. At least I couldn't see anything useful in logs like dmesg or GNU Radio's console. Fortunately it doesn't happen very frequently, but it is very annoying when it does. About the second, I'll look into it. My understanding

Re: Watchdog for GNU Radio

2020-11-07 Thread Marcus Müller
I'd presume there's something going wrong in the communication between your PC and the dongle; maybe a USB packet goes missing, maybe the dongle reboots for some reason, like unstable power supply. It's probably wisest to fix that instead of building a watchdog around it. If you really want to

Watchdog for GNU Radio

2020-11-07 Thread Kopa Rebu
Hi all, I use GNU Radio with a rtl-sdr dongle, which I tune to some frequency and then leave unattended for some hours. Sometimes, the reception just stops: in my flowgraph, I have some display sinks showing the waveform, and it remains still, like frozen. The GNU Radio interface is not frozen,