Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Log Power FFT Block

2018-05-05 Thread CEL
Hi Alejandro, um, this is the mailing list you are looking for. Ask this here; don't ask to ask in private :) Best regards, Marcus On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 14:44 +0200, ALEJANDRO RAMIRO MUNOZ wrote: > Hey all! > > Someone has experience working with this block in GNU Radio? > I'd like to ask

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP DDC and GNURadio Bandwidth Problem

2018-05-14 Thread CEL
Hi Ali, just like the console will tell you, 25 kS/s is simply impossible with an X310; instead, the minimum possible rate was used. You should probably just configure your X310 to get you e.g. 500 kS/s, and then resample in digital domain. If you're hesitant to design your own decimating

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] grc companion color theme Kubuntu 18.04

2018-05-14 Thread CEL
Hi Murray, > background color … transparent I wasn't aware of that, but I'd call it a bug in Kubuntu (or, the way Kubuntu configures their KDE to configure GTK to show tooltips). What do you mean with "toggle visibility button"? Cheers, Marcus On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 12:56 +0100, Murray

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Output to Spectrum Analyzer

2018-05-09 Thread CEL
Hello Yeo Jin Kuang Alvin, that's probably because your Spectrum Analyzer has a sweep rate, and you get something like a reduced probability of seeing the sweep at all. I think it's very likely you should read a tutorial on what a spectrum analyzer is, and what the various settings on it mean,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RTP block / Opus vocoder

2018-05-09 Thread CEL
Well, I think you and Ron basically recommend the same functionality, but Ron is hesitant to reinvent the wheel: For local transport, UDP between your flowgraph and VLC works just fine. Also fine would be simply using a named pipe (FIFO, as in `man mkfifo`, if you're on something vaguely

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

2018-05-09 Thread CEL
Hi Brad, changing the pythonpath shouldn't change the path in which CMake looks for include files and libraries, at all. Can you check whether your /usr/include has some zmq.hpp ? Debian just throws that C++ wrapper for C zeromq into the zeromq-devel package (without any documentation which

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

2018-05-09 Thread CEL
Hi Brad, to jump in and clarify what Phil probably could've said in a lot fewer words, but for didn't ;) : Philip is an OpenEmbedded Guru of ancient fame. Basically, OpenEmbedded is a system to build your own linux distros, by defining what compilers, libraries, and tools to include in the base

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] signal cancellation example using GRC and USRP B210

2018-04-27 Thread CEL
Dear Inkyu, there's no guarantee that the phases of both TX are exactly identical. In fact, you should expect an unknown offset. Also, you'll notice that your two antennas are at two different positions in the room. You're accidentally building a beamforming system! So, these nulls will not be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fundamental question on Sampling rate

2018-04-27 Thread CEL
Hi Mehtap On Fri, 2018-04-27 at 15:57 +0300, mehtap özkan wrote: > Based on your calculations, I have decided to get a LIMESDR-PCIe. > The sampling rate will be 122,88 MSPS which will give 61.44 MHz I and 61.44 > MHz Q. I think it is the other way around: The Sampling rates are 61.44 MHz on I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with USRP receiver Gain

2018-04-27 Thread CEL
Dear Prabhat, the B210 doesn't support 120 dB of gain. Ask uhd_uspr_probe about minimum and maximum gain, or simply don't use "absolute gain" setting in the USRP block, but "relative" gain, and use 0 for minimum, and 1 for maximum gain. Risking that I repeat what I said before: RSSI is a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tx Burst for Chirp signals

2018-05-10 Thread CEL
better way for burst > transmission? > > Does anyone know this? > > Thanks in advanced! > > -Original Message- > From: Müller, Marcus (CEL) [mailto:muel...@kit.edu] > Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2018 5:06 PM > To: Yeo Jin Kuang Alvin (IA); discuss-gnuradio

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tx Burst for Chirp signals

2018-05-10 Thread CEL
Hi! your receiver low pass filter is incorrectly parameterized, probably (sampling rate isn't 32 MS/s). And so is the rest of your flow graph – your USRP is using a sampling rate of 2 MS/s, but you act as if it's running at 32 MS/s. Start with 2 MS/s and make it work with that – then later scale

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tx Burst for Chirp signals

2018-05-10 Thread CEL
it every few > seconds? > > Thank you in advanced! > > -Original Message----- > From: Müller, Marcus (CEL) [mailto:muel...@kit.edu] > Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2018 5:34 PM > To: Yeo Jin Kuang Alvin (IA); discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tx B

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Audio File transmission using Qpsk modulation

2018-05-12 Thread CEL
No, 15 kHz is not "very minimum", it's impossible. Your console will contain information that the UHD picked a different, higher, sampling rate. Your "I picked 15 kS/s to get a clear audio file" doesn't make much sense; this is not how digital communications work! I'm afraid you'll have to be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gnuradio + ZeroMQ = win!

2018-05-12 Thread CEL
Hi Brad! Thanks for sharing your success! It's always valuable to hear what works for people :) Best regards, Marcus On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 09:01 -0400, Brad Hein wrote: > Just a follow up to some of the issues I reported recently with the > Socket PDU blocks.. Switching to ZeroMQ (ZMQ) based

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Audio File transmission using Qpsk modulation

2018-05-12 Thread CEL
k! Mr muller > To be honest am new for this software but I tried my best to figure > out this problem.if you can please send me the exact block > > > > On Sat, 12 May 2018, 12:11 Müller, Marcus (CEL), <muel...@kit.edu> > wrote: > > No, 15 kHz is not "very minimum&q

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tx Burst for Chirp signals

2018-05-11 Thread CEL
k to > itself to the RX port. As a result, I have to send a pulse and stop > for a moment while it is receiving and then transmit again. > > Thank you in advanced! > > -Original Message- > From: Müller, Marcus (CEL) [mailto:muel...@kit.edu] > Sent: Thursday, 10 May

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] An analog RF question

2018-05-22 Thread CEL
Hi Marcus, > Use digipots to set the R values, and use a fixed value for C, or perhaps selectable C as well (probably only two or three values). friends of mine tried to do variable attenuation for powerline communication frontends using digipots, and: these can be very frequency-selective, even

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing delay block value over time

2018-05-24 Thread CEL
No. Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 09:22 +, Yeo Jin Kuang Alvin (IA) wrote: > Hi all, > > Am I able to change the value of the delay block automatically in GRC over > time when the flowgraph is running? > > Thank you in advanced! >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] random number problem

2018-05-24 Thread CEL
Hi! Don't use random.h's `random()` in GNU Radio. It's not thread-safe and mustn't be used in multithreaded applications, and GNU Radio is inherently multithreaded. > So I tried to use srand(time(0)) That is **explicitly** a way to get a different sequence every time, so this is very

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing delay block value over time

2018-05-24 Thread CEL
them)? Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 10:00 +, Yeo Jin Kuang Alvin (IA) wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to implement control of delays over time? Type out own code? > > Thank you in advanced! > > -Original Message- > From: Müller, Marcus (CEL)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio master and UHD RFNOC Version Issue

2018-05-25 Thread CEL
Hi John, GNU Radio versioning is totally independent from UHD versioning, and that's what's defining the compatibility with the FPGA image. So, you need to install the UHD that fits your FPGA image (or use an FPGA image that fits your installed UHD). Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2018-05-24 at

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio master and UHD RFNOC Version Issue

2018-05-25 Thread CEL
Hi John, On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 06:39 -0600, John Medrano wrote: > Thank you for the response. > > The issue that we have is that the latest UHD RFNOC version is not compatible > with latest version of GNU Radio. That's simply not true. UHD, to GNU Radio, is just a library. > > So I must

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio master and UHD RFNOC Version Issue

2018-05-25 Thread CEL
Hi John, no need to apologize; we're all learners of some kind! So, let me annotate your terminology below, so that we are on the same page :) On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 07:20 -0600, John Medrano wrote: > Hello, > > I apologize for my terminology, it is causing some confusion. > > If you download

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing delay block value over time

2018-05-25 Thread CEL
a for 5 secs which means I need to calculate the slant > range over time. In order for me to get the propagation delay 2R/c. As a > result, I need to change the delays for 5 secs. > > Thank you in advanced! > > -Original Message----- > From: Müller, Marcus (CEL)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing delay block value over time

2018-05-25 Thread CEL
means I need to calculate the slant > range over time. In order for me to get the propagation delay 2R/c. As a > result, I need to change the delays for 5 secs. > > Thank you in advanced! > > -Original Message----- > From: Müller, Marcus (CEL) [mailto:muel...@kit.edu] >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] a single source module to generate a random sequence with a pre-ample in the front

2018-05-26 Thread CEL
Hi Linda, Why should the Ettus website contain GNU Radio examples? Also, why should this specific example exist? Anyway, all you need is the "vector insert" block. Best regards, Marcus On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 21:05 -0400, Linda20071 wrote: > There is an example on ettus website that uses a single

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Incorrect quantizations when converting from float to char

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
If possible, please track progress on https://github.com/gnuradio/volk/issues/188 On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 15:30 +, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > Hi Paul, > > hm, OK, considering the actual conversion is done in VOLK, can you > tell > us > > * whether ~/.volk/volk_config e

[Discuss-gnuradio] volk float32->int8 kernel and thus float_to_char block round or floor, depending on VOLK machine (was: Re: Incorrect quantizations when converting from float to char)

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
https://github.com/gnuradio/volk/blob/master/kernels/volk/volk_32f_s3 > 2f_convert_8i.h#L200 > > I had not really looked into that before because having run the > volk_profile seemed to make no difference. > > Regards, Paul Boven. > > On 06/09/2018 06:08 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wr

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] volk float32->int8 kernel and thus float_to_char block round or floor, depending on VOLK machine

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
optimizations your machine > happens to have available, so that's also quite bad. > > Possibly there is also an optimization opportunity of never using > 'generic' even at the block edge when acceleration is available by > choosing the right size of blocks, but that's probably a small

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Incorrect quantizations when converting from float to char

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
_sse2 > > Regards, Paul Boven. > > On 06/09/2018 05:30 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > > hm, OK, considering the actual conversion is done in VOLK, can you > > tell > > us > > > > * whether ~/.volk/volk_config exists (and if s

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bug in fmdet_cf_imp.cc

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
Hello Eugene, Thanks! I.. uh. wat?! There's a lot of interesting things in the code of that block. d_8 being a constant with value 8 not being the largest surprise; I see that this should be a derivative-approximating filter, right, which inherently needs to have high-pass characteristics, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Incorrect quantizations when converting from float to char

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
Hi Paul, hm, OK, considering the actual conversion is done in VOLK, can you tell us * whether ~/.volk/volk_config exists (and if so, its contents regarding volk_32f_s32f_convert_8i ) * what the output of `volk-config-info --machine` is? Thanks, Marcus On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 17:13 +0200, Paul

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] volk float32->int8 kernel and thus float_to_char block round or floor, depending on VOLK machine

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
Oh wait, it gets better: while the float->int16 does indeed use rintf, float->int32 doesn't… now we don't have a majority situation pro- rounding anymore… argh. On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 19:24 +, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I agree with everything you say. Float

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR-UHD Compatibility Issue

2018-06-12 Thread CEL
As Marcus said, 3.0.4 is somewhere between "ancient" and "archaic". Is there a specific reason you consider that version? On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 03:01 -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 06/12/2018 02:49 AM, Luis Felipe Albarracin Sanchez wrote: > > Hello to all, > > > > i just did, what the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GR-UHD Compatibility Issue

2018-06-12 Thread CEL
that one > was one of the closest to the top. > > I will checkout the others. > > Is there any stable Version you would recommend? > > Kind regards. > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) du> wrote: > > As Marcus said, 3.0.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Visualising data with GNURadio

2018-06-08 Thread CEL
Hi Jaco, this is really a reasonable thing to want, but to be honest, GNU Radio's visualizations are very much oriented along the streaming nature of GNU Radio – and scrollback doesn't fit all to well. I recommend https://github.com/miek/inspectrum , which is relatively new, and relatively cool

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] make maint-3.7 fails

2018-06-08 Thread CEL
Hi Tom, got a bit of worries about this one: On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 09:17 -0700, Tom McDermott wrote: > modified: volk (new commits) Which basically means that the Volk submodule isn't in the state the main module's branch expects it to be, and that's exactly what's going wrong there.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Memory Blocks & Struct Variable

2018-06-07 Thread CEL
Sorry, I replied with an empty mail just now, confusion of keys. I added more coffee to solve the issue with the author. Steve, assuming your set_mag() is in C++: if you have control over the set_mag() method, write it so that it accepts vectors, for example. Then, you can just use Python lists

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Memory Blocks & Struct Variable

2018-06-07 Thread CEL
On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 08:45 +0300, shachar J. brown wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm sure someone has encountered one of the following questions. Please help > me figure this out: > At certain points in my flow graph I have different scenarios, each demanding > a set of different parameters. I now

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A few questions regarding gr-ieeee802-11

2018-06-08 Thread CEL
Hi Tal, 3.7 is the maint-3.7 branch, master works towards 3.8, and a milestone of that will be when next is merged into it. You can expect a 3.8 release when next is merged, and all the serious kinks that came with it are contained enough for us to risk a release :) Best regards, Marcus On Fri,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Digital Modulation - Loopeback Constellation

2018-06-14 Thread CEL
Hi Luis, I hope you're using an attenuator with a cable or antennas in your feedback, not to risk damaging your receiver! What you need to do to get a similar constellation is the whole dance that is taught in your average digital communication basics lecture: Synchronization in time, and phase

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Digital Modulation - Loopeback Constellation

2018-06-14 Thread CEL
Hi Luis, On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 12:29 +0200, Luis Felipe Albarracin Sanchez wrote: > Hello Marcus, > > Thanks for the response, > > I am not using an attenuator, because i font have one , i am only with my > cable, but i have meassured the Power before connecting to the RX in my USRP, > so it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Digital Modulation - Loopeback Constellation

2018-06-14 Thread CEL
gt; > Kind regards. > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) > wrote: > > Hi Luis, > > On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 12:29 +0200, Luis Felipe Albarracin Sanchez > > wrote: > > > Hello Marcus, > > > > > > Thanks for the response, &g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Faster FPGA clock rates

2018-06-14 Thread CEL
Dear Maria, no, GNU Radio is a pure software framework; it doesn't directly talk to any hardware, but has a gr-uhd component which uses UHD, Ettus' own driver, to talk to your USRP. Anyway, you can't simply reprogram the FPGA to give you higher clock rates. 61.44 MHz is physically the most that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to see GSM signals in USRP Spectrum Scanner (FFT)

2018-06-18 Thread CEL
Hi Amrit, Well, usrp_spectrum_sense is a hopping observer, and GSM is a hopping system: your probability of intercept is rather low. Your probability of intercept is in fact, really zero, if your phone doesn't do GSM (2G), but uses 3G (UMTS) or 4G (LTE): these use other frequencies altogether.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio Help

2018-06-13 Thread CEL
chuk wrote: > I need to rebuild the frequency, do fft and then transfer the whole array > from 70 to 6GHz to the host machine. I do not quite imagine how you can do > this with standard blocks in gnuradio. > > > 2018-06-13 17:32 GMT+03:00 Müller, Marcus (CEL) : > > Dear I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio Help

2018-06-13 Thread CEL
Dear Ivan, you don't pass data to a block yourself. You write a block that does a clearly-limited signal processing job, and use GNU Radio to connect that to other blocks: https://tutorials.gnuradio.org In your case, instantiating a USRP source in your block makes absolutely no sense, for

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio Help

2018-06-13 Thread CEL
and then transfer the whole > > > > > array from 70 to 6GHz to the host machine. I do not quite imagine how > > > > > you can do this with standard blocks in gnuradio. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2018-06-1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio not installing: Build Failed

2018-06-09 Thread CEL
Hello Jason and Derek! What Derek wrote very much sums up what is going on in my head; I should probably write that down. So, knowing fully this is everything but an official announcement, 3.8 will need C++11. Just wanted to confirm that. On the way to 3.8, we'll thus need to "weed out" the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Channel Coding

2018-05-29 Thread CEL
Hello Dewan! On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 16:09 -0400, Dewan Arif wrote: > 1. In FEC_extended_encoder, What is the Encoder Objective ?? How to put the > value in Encoder Objective ?? Small typo: it's "encoder object", not "objective" :) What you want there is to put the ID of a "Encoder Definition"

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] debugging for gnuradio DSP programming

2018-05-30 Thread CEL
Hi Linda, for debugging *programmatic* things (i.e. crashes, program doesn't calculate what I think it should), you'd use a debugger: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/TutorialsDebugging https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/TutorialsGDB for debugging *algorithmic* things (i.e. I don't know why

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Resampling rate method assistance

2018-05-30 Thread CEL
e breaks in the continuous signal) > > Regards. > > On 29 May 2018 at 23:19, Müller, Marcus (CEL) > wrote: > > Hi Carlo, > > > > if you're using GNU Radio's rational resampler, you're already > > using > > that method! > > > > Really, at yo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Resampling rate method assistance

2018-05-29 Thread CEL
Hi Carlo, hi Linda: as Linda said,the RR approach works really well and is numerically relatively stable until you hit really ugly ratios (after, of course, cancelling the fraction as far as possible). But what is "ugly" here? In theory, rational resampling by M/N (note: M,N coprime!) would

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Resampling rate method assistance

2018-05-29 Thread CEL
ares. > Regards. > > On 29 May 2018 at 19:34, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > > Hi Carlo, hi Linda: > > > > as Linda said,the RR approach works really well and is numerically > > relatively stable until you hit really ugly ratios (after, of course, > > cancelling the fra

[Discuss-gnuradio] Release 3.7.13.1 is out!

2018-05-31 Thread CEL
Dear best community of an SDR project known to mankind! It took me longer than I'd like to admit, but we've finally come to a release of GNU Radio's maintenance branch 3.7. I'm very thankful for the contributors we've had this time, especially because the amount of first-time code contributions

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Selecting the precise sampling point from many samples

2018-06-04 Thread CEL
Hi Carlo, not quite sure I get what you mean with "bandlimiting"? What with "transposing"? Regarding "padding": do you mean interpolation? Again, you'd use a resampler, and in your case, the rational resampler with decimation=1, interpolation = 48 would do the trick. Best regards, Marcus On

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to modify the existing module and make it effective

2018-06-04 Thread CEL
Hello! If you've modified it, I guess you already have the GNU Radio source code. So, you must make sure that you're using the GNU Radio that you have built from source: https://www.gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/build_guide.html Simply build your modified GNU Radio and install it :) How that

[Discuss-gnuradio] Release 3.7.13.2 is out! (was: Release 3.7.13.1 is out!)

2018-06-01 Thread CEL
I messed up, and v3.7.13.1 was tagged off-branch, whereas I pushed a commit that incorrectly changed the version number to the maint-3.7 branch. I ask you to not use 3.7.13.1 but 3.7.13.2. Thank you! Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2018-05-31 at 19:30 +, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > Dear b

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] install issue with c++11

2018-06-05 Thread CEL
Then the answer is really, very likely, to use a container of sorts. Docker seems to be the choice for that these days. Best regards, Marcus On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 08:08 -0700, Jason Matusiak wrote: > I wasn't worried about my gnuradio builds as much as my system as a whole > when I was mucking

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] install issue with c++11

2018-06-05 Thread CEL
Hi Jason, to not hose my system every day, I simply work in prefixes. Basically, find my shell's RC file below. With options like `- DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$GRPREFIX` (for CMake) or `export`ing PREFIX=$GRPREFIX (before running ./configure scripts) one can set the installation directory so that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] install issue with c++11

2018-06-05 Thread CEL
The whole purpose of using PyBOMBS is to work in PREFIXes, so no need to do that – PyBOMBS does that automatically. On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 10:38 -0400, Dave NotTelling wrote: > Check out > https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs#configuring-a-prefix-environment-eg-for-cross-compiling. > You might be

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] A small embedded python block which does frequency peak detect

2018-06-05 Thread CEL
Hello Ji-yeon, I think the best way to help you forward here is point out that the description of the block is very close to actually being an algorithmical description of what you need to do! So, maybe you're just missing the tools to build your own blocks and use the existing blocks; in that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] functions to generate random signals

2018-06-05 Thread CEL
Hi! Linda, you **must not** use rand(). It's not thread-safe, and GNU Radio is inherently multithreaded. For reference, I've pointed that out in a recent mail exchange [-1]; the recommendation was the same as Dave's: use C++11's std:: random generators; that email even has a small code example :)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correct way to add constructor parameter

2018-06-06 Thread CEL
Also, while you're at it: If you have parameters (like potentially your scaling) that you'd like to update externally, for example from a different block, it's not that bad an idea to add a "command" message port, with a message handler that does the setting. I mention this because messages are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Underflow and Overflow

2018-05-28 Thread CEL
Hi Alvin, you've already gotten plenty of info on this list from where over- and underflows come. We've really addressed all this before[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,etc], and you've gotten sufficient recommendations. Please do avoid to spam the mailing list with redundant questions. Let me

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] random number coding problem

2018-05-30 Thread CEL
Hi! So, I'm really not sure how to help you here: I have to expect you to be able to call a function in C++ to give you value. The level of understanding necessary to transfer my example to replace your usage of rand() in your code isn't really high. Maybe you'd want to read a good C++

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Resampling rate method assistance

2018-05-30 Thread CEL
Hi Carlo! On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 23:04 +1000, Carlo Manfredini wrote: > My hardware arrangement is fairly demanding, I think ? > I wish to resample between a Red Pitaya connected via ethernet running at > 100kSps and a USB-audio unit (UCA-202) running at 48kSps. That's not "much signal to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] making signal source based on a certain format

2018-07-01 Thread CEL
Hi Linda, Do you mean "sending 0 in between" or do you mean "switch transmission on some SDR device on and off"? First case: multiply with a (threshold(sawtooth from signal source)) Second case: see the gr-uhd examples on how to do bursty transmissions, if a USRP is what we're talking about!

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] set_history() for multi-input blocks

2018-07-01 Thread CEL
The history is really just the same ring-alike buffer. Setting the history really does nothing but tell the scheduler that although you consumed N samples, it may only declare (N-history) as "done with", and will present you the last (history) samples as beginning of your new input item buffer on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "sample delay" in "Decimating FIR Filter" at GRC

2018-07-02 Thread CEL
Hi Ali, I went into the GRC file (in gnuradio/gr-filter/grc) and looked that up: It calls block::declare_sample_delay https://www.gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/classgr_1_1block.html#acad5d6e62ea 885cb77d19f72451581c2 (this documentation isn't great and doesn't really say what declare_sample_delay

[Discuss-gnuradio] Project Announcement: "master" will require C++11 soon

2018-06-25 Thread CEL
Hello greatest SDR community to roam the earth, as we're progressing towards a merge of the next branch into master, which will actually bring us new features and challenges like Python3, QT5, YAML instead of XML in GRC and many, many specific improvements, I'll announce that we're switching over

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need help with CtrlPort Performance Monitor

2018-06-23 Thread CEL
Hi Jim, Can you share the full console output of your flow graph? Also note that the most "fragile" dependency of GNU Radio right now is Thrift, if you can check whether your CMake output says that Thrift was used, it would be helpful. Thrift is the RPC middleware that ctrlport uses to expose

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Import GNURadio data to matlab

2018-06-23 Thread CEL
Dear Priyanka, um, the whole point of that article is that you need to give the third parameter, the kind of date (Matlab docs erroneously call this precision, it's really the data type): fopen(your_filename_here, 'rb', 'float') The fact that you're even asking about quotes around the file name

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need help with CtrlPort Performance Monitor

2018-06-24 Thread CEL
t helps us get forward, Best regards, Marcus On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 16:50 -0700, Jim Larsen wrote: > Marcus, > > Thank you for your reply. > > > On Jun 23, 2018, at 4:00 AM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) > > wrote: > > > > Can you share the full console output of your f

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Text transmission using usrp

2018-06-27 Thread CEL
Hi Trueblues, the packet encoder and decoder blocks are known to be broken – that's why they are in the "deprecated" category! It'll be gone with the next minor release of GNU Radio, even. (same will happen to WX GUI, so switch to Qt now!) So, please don't use them; I don't expect them to work.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT Gui mem alloc error - runs OK if R, C hints deleted

2018-06-26 Thread CEL
Hi Tom! Hm, no, I wouldn't be aware of any limitations, and even if such exist, things shouldn't die with a std::bad_alloc! Ok, so I'm wondering how we can move forward with this. Let us try this: * Can you share a proof of failure flow graph with us? That way, everyone's definitely talking

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] QT Gui mem alloc error - runs OK if R, C hints deleted

2018-06-26 Thread CEL
gsym` I was wrong, at that point it's totally OK to complain about missing symbol. Just say it's OK to set the breakpoint on future library load. On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 10:47 +, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > Hi Tom! > > Hm, no, I wouldn't be aware of any limitations, and even if such >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How do I interface my X310 with an NVIDIA K80 GPU in GNURadio

2018-05-02 Thread CEL
Hi LJ Eads, I'm a bit confused: What has your sound card to do with GNU Radio, or the USRP? And how is your sound card comparable to a GPU? GNU Radio runs on CPUs. Best regards, Marcus On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 13:23 +, Eads, LJ D. wrote: > Hello, > I just setup a USRP X310 that I plan on

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CIC + halfband filter compensation

2018-04-26 Thread CEL
Hi Geoff, might be a good idea to ask this on usrp-us...@lists.ettus.com, because these CICs are not part of GNU Radio :) Anyway: There's nothing much to interpret about CIC responses; they are well-known. The length (and potentially order, as in exponent) of the CIC used depends on your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Correct usage of gr::io_signature::makev

2018-04-29 Thread CEL
That certainly works, too! If you're using C++11, you can also static std::vector get_input_sizes(){ std::vector input_sizes = { sizeof(gr_complex), sizeof(gr_complex), sizeof(gr_complex), sizeof(gr_complex), sizeof(float) }; return

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Changing the frequency of a source using message prompts. *Simulation Only*

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Hi Jordan, nice! But: what exactly do you need help with? What's that source? Best regards, Marcus On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 10:53 -0400, Jordan Nnabugwu wrote: > > I want to be able to create a block that will sent a message to change my > source once it senses a certain amount of power coming

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help with using gnuradio c++ api

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Hi Snehasish, since this is defitnitely not your complete code, there's nothing we can do to help you :( Best regards, Marcus On Mon, 2018-04-02 at 19:13 +, Snehasish Kar wrote: > Hello > > I was trying to generate a flow graph using file source descriptor and a file > sink. But after

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Read output of Packet Decoder, save it into a variable and print (inside generated python file)

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Hi Marvin, sorry to have been so late to react: Don't use the Packet Decoder. It has a bug and doesn't work reliably! That's why it's in the "deprecated" category. Best regards, Marcus On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 19:28 +, Marvin Biedermann wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Gnuradio and I have a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOT Modules: PDU Utilities and Timing Utilities

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Hi Jacob, sorry, I wasn't around to react to this: Wow! Thank you for sharing this. Would this be functionality that you'd like to see upstreamed into mainline GNU Radio? That might ease future usage for you, as then "GNU Radio" as a whole project would notice if something we do breaks the unit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] MPSK file transfer

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Dear Kailash, there's very much that can go wrong for over-the-air transmissions, and you'll simply have to apply your digital wireless communications knowledge to narrow this down. Furthermore, the Packet encoder and decoder blocks are *heavily* deprecated, and you mustn't use them. Use the

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

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
f your GDB knows the python debug symbols, and maybe even has the scripting in place to interleave Python state with the back trace (since we then would even see which Python line was being executed, as well as the state of the python interpreter). Best regards, Marcus On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 17:1

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

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Huh, no, 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, 2018-04-12 at 11:03 -0400, Brad Hein wrote:

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

2018-04-30 Thread CEL
Hi Brad, 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 be included in the 3.7.11.1 release you're using... hm. We

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] signal cancellation example using GRC and USRP B210

2018-04-29 Thread CEL
but that might be as simple as XOR with 10101010...). Best regards, Marcus > > Thank you. > Regards, > > Inkyu > > > > > 2018. 4. 27. 오후 10:13, Müller, Marcus (CEL) <muel...@kit.edu> 작성: > > > > Dear Inkyu, > > > > there's no guaran

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] cannot install gr-burst and gr-eventstream on raspberry pi 3

2018-01-11 Thread CEL
Hi Ogün, this might be many things – generally, your Pi might just be running out of memory during the build, for example (in that case, you'll often find a hint about the OOM (out-of-memory) killer in `dmesg`; I suspect memory limits because SWIG is especially hungry for RAM). make VERBOSE=1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio v3.7.11.6 no attribute to byte array error

2018-01-17 Thread CEL
Hi Brian, this came up today already, and seems solved by a patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2018-01/msg00108.htm l Maybe this helps, best regards, Marcus On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 19:00 +, Brian Clark wrote: > Good evening all, > > I have recently updated my kali

[Discuss-gnuradio] GRC: Bus connections updated while the property win is still open?

2018-01-23 Thread CEL
Hello everyone, I'm currently debugging a strange spinlooping issue in GRC, which happened just while I was entering the number of output streams in a PFB channelizer's property dialog; I've not pressed enter or closed the dialog. However, as far as my htop and gdb debugging goes, the code path

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] oot modules in grc

2018-01-23 Thread CEL
Hi Volker, you're definitely scratching something I've been thinking about for quite some time. The direction in which I'd like to steer this whole would be twofold: * a high degree of quality assurance (that includes naming consistency) of in-tree code * a high degree of reward for developers

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Lost samples from RTL2832 dongle

2018-01-23 Thread CEL
Hi John, my experience, indeed, is that USB passthrough support in VMs is suboptimal. So, this could very well be a virtual USB host controller problem. I'd actually recommend circumventing the issue, e.g. by running rtl_tcp on the host machine, and using the appropriate source string in the gr-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Lost samples from RTL2832 dongle

2018-01-23 Thread CEL
Ah, and: Choppy audio from low-buffer streaming applications within VMs is another common issue with many VM hypervisors. On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 12:44 +, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote: > Hi John, > > my experience, indeed, is that USB passthrough support in VMs is > suboptimal. So

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Lost samples from RTL2832 dongle

2018-01-23 Thread CEL
You'll find instructions at https://osmocom.org/projects/sdr/wiki/rtl-sdr#rtl_tcp On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 12:50 +, john cooper wrote: > Hello Marcus, good idea, I will research how to do this and report back. > Many thanks. John > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, 12:47 Müller, Marcus

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC: Bus connections updated while the property win is still open?

2018-01-23 Thread CEL
; it's somewhere in that logic. > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Müller, Marcus (CEL) <muel...@kit.edu> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm currently debugging a strange spinlooping issue in GRC, which > > happened just while I was entering the number of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fastnoise_source is not thread-safe

2018-01-26 Thread CEL
Hello Markus, just to add to the things said: The (non-fast) noise source in GR has experienced a bit of bugfixing (but more on a mathematical level: turns out that the built-in random function GNU Radio used wasn't all that random if one looked for about 10^8 samples)... I'm currently reading

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OOT Module Not Working Properly

2018-01-12 Thread CEL
Hi Tellrell, >def forecast(self, noutput_items, ninput_items_required): >#setup size of input_items[i] for work call >for i in range(len(ninput_items_required)): >ninput_items_required[i] = noutput_items what your forecast does: it tells the GNU Radio runtime that

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