Hi Darin:
Just chiming in. I use MacPorts, it works really well. There is the
occasional build error if the MacPorts folks are behind gnuradio
developments a bit, but generally there are no problems. I use Ubuntu
for my main gnuradio machine. The RTL dongles are good and quite
versatile.
You'll love gnuradio once you get it working. Start with some simple
flowgraphs, do lots of reading and build on your knowledge from there.
Expect a learning curve though! Ask here on the list for good books and
reference material.
Kevin
On 2016-07-05 5:37 AM, Darin Decker wrote:
Much appreciated Mark. Yeah, I've seen screen prints and videos and
agree it looks amazing. I'll follow the MacPorts path as you suggest.
Eighth now it is getting stuck with the xterm comment and then saying
no osmosdr so will work on resolving those first.
On Jul 4, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Mark Napier <napierdm...@gmail.com
<mailto:napierdm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hey Darin,
If you just want the GNU Radio environment up and don't plan on doing
any UHD development then my vote for you is the MacBookPro using
MacPorts.
Be aware, none of these flows are trouble free. Over the last couple
of months I've tried Mac, Ubuntu, and Windows 7. Macports gives (for
me at least) the nicest final environment to work in.
The thing with MacPorts is that all the dependancies are constantly
in flux. So sign up as a MacPorts user so you can post problems.
When you install gnuradio one or more of the dependancies is likely
fail. Try installing the failing one alone and see if it will
finish, be sure to get the specific version right. Sometime this
requires going through the "verbose" log file to get the right name.
You may have to uninstall a few and try again. Be prepared to burn a
*lot* of time. Seems to be the nature of the beast. Often something
is broken and you have to post the problem to MacPorts to the owner
of the particular package. It usually is turned around in a day or
so; remarkable really considering that this is all done gratis.
If this sounds like a pain it is; but it gets you a recent release of
GNU Radio that is compiled for your machine. I'm pretty much in awe
at the amount of work put in by the MacPorts team and by the GNU
Radio developers.
I installed the fosphor waterfall display for grc and that is truly
stunning on the Mac. Hard to think that it is open source.
Best of luck,
Mark Napier
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:52:25 -0500
From: Darin Decker <darindec...@mac.com <mailto:darindec...@mac.com>>
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Good morning, I have been trying to get Gnuradio up and and running
all weekend on either a Macbook Pro or a System 76 Ubuntu 12.04
machine but have not had any success. If I understand correctly,
Ubuntu 12.04 is not supported so I have not pursued that much but
focused on the Macbook Pro.
When I try to run gnuradio-companion on the Mac, I initially get 'The
xterm executable ? is missing?. When I search for gnu radio.conf,
the file doesn?t seem to be on the computer.
Then when I run a simple flow(RTL-SDR Source -> WX GUI FFT Sink), i
get a python error of no module named osmosdr.
Then I tried the Live DVD. Trying both from DVD and from USB
Flashdrive. On both the System 76 and the Mac hardware, I get the
same issue.
I have an RTL-SDR device and I believe the program is recognizing the
device because it says Rafael Tuner 820; however, it then says PLL
won?t lock. I have tried multiple FM broadcast frequencies; as well
as, AM broadcast frequencies. On the FM, I?m inputting values of
101.1e06 for example. On the AM I input 108e04 as an example(1080 on
am dial is the intended target in that case).
I also have a SDRplay but can?t get that to connect at all. Looks
like if you don?t have a Windows machine, that doesn?t seem to work
well yet. Guessing drivers or something on SDRplay side.
Any help is greatly appreciated. For right now, I?m just wanting to
get it up and running in any way possible.
Darin
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