In my case gr-osmosdr on ubuntu 20.04 Work just in gnuradio 3.8.1. I'm not able to run it on ubuntu 3.9.. at least unit 10 days ago.
David Martini Il Mer 5 Mag 2021, 12:49 Jeff Long <willco...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On Ubuntu 20.04, apt install gr-osmosdr works. > > It sounds like you've gone through quite a bit here. > > What is the HackRF1 RF Receiver you mention? > > On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:28 AM Jessica Chen <jessica.san.c...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> My main goal is to simply get the HackRF One FM receiver to work on GRC. >> In short, I’ve tried: >> - GNU Radio installation on Ubuntu 20.04 via PPAs, PyBOMBS, and source. >> Unfortunately, no variation yields the osmocom source I need. Additional >> attempts to install gr-osmosdr, via default packet managers, git, and >> source, have failed, largely due to version incompatibilities. >> - The same processes worked on a Kali Linux virtual machine (PPAs and >> PyBOMBS failed, both source installation worked). However, this was a messy >> installation, and 3 tests failed during make test (see below). >> - GRC on Kali Linux fails to make the HackRF1 FM receiver (see below). >> I’ve been able to get the FM receiver to work on GQRX (Ubuntu) with the >> same hardware, so it shouldn’t be a hardware problem. >> - Other simple tutorial flow graphs fail to run on my Kali Linux GRC. >> >> Any help would be very much appreciated: >> - How do I get gr-osmosdr on Ubuntu GRC? I know others have ran into this >> problem on the mailing list archives, but I feel like I’ve already ran >> through every suggestion. Please let me know if you feel like I’ve missed >> any. >> - Why is the FM receiver on my Kali GRC not working? Is it just because >> I’m missing some fundamental knowledge on SDRs, or is this problem rooted >> in installation? >> - Should I separate my problems into multiple threads? >> >> *Longer overview of what I've tried so far.* It’s still truncated from >> my original documentation, so please feel free to ask for an even longer >> version. >> - [DEFAULT] On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, apt-get installed hackrf and gnuradio >> (gnuradio-config-info --version returns 3.8.1.0). However, there's *no >> osmocom source*. >> - [PYBOMBS] Since archives recommended PyBOMBS installation for >> gr-osmosdr over source installation, I followed instructions here ( >> https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs/) to install PyBOMBS. However, I ran >> into problems "while building package libvolk." >> - [LIBVOLK] It seems a lot of people ran into a similar problem, so I >> followed suggestions here ( >> https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/3814) to set "gitarg: >> --recursive" in libvolk.lwr. However, I found that my version already had >> this recursive setting, so my libvolk error was independent of the >> discussion on GitHub. >> - [SOURCE] Followed instructions here ( >> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR#From_Source) to install >> GNU Radio from source. As recommended, I installed volk first with no >> problems. I ran into an error with pybind but I fixed it with the >> recommended conda installation (python3-pybind11 did not work). I reached >> the end of installation with minimal errors, but *still no OSMOCOM.* >> - [PYBOMBS] Some people recommended using PyBOMBS to install gr-osmosdr, >> so I tried it. This time, got past libvolk error, but ran into *error** >> intsalling gr-iqbal*! I tried a long fix, detailed here ( >> https://hackmd.io/@j-chen/HJROJK8L_), but it didn't work. At some point, >> I realized my gnuradio-config-info --version returns >> "v3.10.0.0git-265-g5547665e." >> - [PPA] As such, I tried to "clean" Ubuntu using the top-voted answer >> here ( >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/859448/is-there-a-command-to-factory-reset-ubuntu) >> (which I know doesn't actually clean it) and PPA re-installed GNU Radio 3.8 >> AND 3.9 (tried both separately; neither magically worked). >> - [OSMO SOURCE] Followed instructions here ( >> https://osmocom.org/projects/gr-osmosdr/wiki) to install gr-osmosdr from >> source. However, I ran into an error that most likely stemmed from version >> changes from *boost:shared_ptr* to *std::shared_ptr*. >> (/home/cvr/Documents/venv/hackrf/gr-osmosdr/lib/fcd/fcd_source_c.cc:147:36: >> error: no matching function for call to >> ‘fcd_source_c::connect(gr::fcdproplus::fcd::sptr&, int, >> gr::hier_block2::opaque_self, int)’) (I had ran into this error before too.) >> - Here, I gave up on Ubuntu and simply took someone's suggestion to move >> to *Kali Linux* on a virtual machine. >> - [PYBOMBS] Tried using PyBOMBS to install GNU Radio, but could not due >> to "Package has *no install method: qt5*". I also couldn't use Kali's >> default packet manager to install qt5. This issue is still open here ( >> https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs/issues/555). >> - [DEFAULT] Simply tried sudo apt-get install gnuradio (3.8), hackrf, >> cmake. Still no gr-osmosdr. Tried installing gr-osmosdr from git clone, but >> *version >> incompatible* pops up ("request version 3.9). >> - [PPA] Since 3.9 was requested, I tried PPA installation, but it turns >> out that Kali does not support PPAs. I tried a workaround method that >> turned out to be deprecated, so aborted this attempt before it truly broke >> anything. >> - [SOURCE] Followed instructions to install from source exactly ( >> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR#From_Source). *Failed 3 >> tests*, but it worked--*OSMOCOM finally shows up!* >> - FM receiver: ran into problems with xterm (resolved), >> "set_fft_window_normalized" (seemed to be another 3.9 version >> incompatibility; swig solve didn't work; I ended up forcefully removing the >> line in source code), but things overall worked. >> >> HOWEVER, I still couldn't get FM receiver to work >> >> [image: image.png] >> >> >> Sometimes it would run, other times it would show an error. >> [image: image.png] >> I also tried using GQRX, which worked, so it's confirmed to not be a >> hardware issue. >> >> Thinking it was a problem with my GRC knowledge, I tried going through >> the GNU Radio tutorials, but realized I'm still running issues then. For >> example, running *IQ_tutorial_AM_TX_real.grc* ( >> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/images/9/9f/IQ_tutorial_AM_TX_real.grc), I get >> this error: >> >> TypeError: *init*() takes from 5 to 6 positional arguments but 7 were >> given >> >> [image: image.png] >> I tried implementing solutions found here ( >> https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/3664) but the same error >> persists. >> >> I've also tried starting from source in a new Ubuntu virtual machine, and >> to confirm, this also doesn't have gr-osmosdr. >> >> Apologies for the very long email. It's very possible I'm facing multiple >> problems at once, but I'm not sure exactly how to separate these into >> different threads. >> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated! >> >> Best, >> Jessica >> >
