Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-04 Thread Dave
Can u be more specifc on the 'big' error? I use virtualbox all the time, never 
have issues

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On Sep 4, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Sam Evans  wrote:

Hi William,
 
   thank you very much for your answer. I don't really like Linux because it 
has many problems. As I'm writing you this message I'm installing Ubuntu on a 
VirtualPC, everything was OK, but when files were copied to the Virtual drive 
it gave me a BIG error, some I/O error while copying, so this is what I'm 
talking about, many problems and is very slow compared to Windows.
 
Anyway I will try to install some older versions, maybe I will have some 
luck to install it.
 
I would like to make the biggest part by myself, not using LabView or 
Matlab and neither Linux. What I would like to do is to use Windows 
environment, to install GNU Radio, emulate python in a OOP environment, meaning 
-> execute scripts in a software and get out data. I don't want to use USRP and 
GNU Radio to see waveforms (only at the begining when I will try it out and 
when I will write the script), I want to transfer data, to communicate with 
other wireless devices, etc. I want to use it in the practical side to transfer 
data, if I could get 2 bytes of data from a wireless device using 
microcontroller it would be heaven. This is the hardest part, to transfer my 
first byte of data, after tha I could make some nice things, nice systems.
 
Thank you very much for your answer and I would be very happy to receive 
any idea from anybody.
 
Best regards,
Sam Evans.

From: William Cox 
To: Sam Evans ; GNU Radio Discussion 

Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 6:50:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

Sam,

Coming from a Windows user, I have to say that switching to Ubuntu was 1) 
extremely easy and 2) greatly accelerated my understand and ability to use 
GNURadio/USRP - mainly because I could use the GRC, which is a Labview-like 
graphical interface to GNURadio and USRP.
I'd *highly* recommend giving it a shot first, at least to learn with, before 
trying Windows development.
That's my 0.02. YMMV.

Also check out the Simulink libraries - I think they're linked from Ettus.com

-William


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Sam Evans  wrote:
Hi everybody,
 
I would like to ask some questions regarding USRP. I really need some help. 
I got my USRP with a WBX and LP0410. I work on a computer running Windows XP. 
After I read many thing about how to install the GNU Radio in Windows 
environment I could install it using MingW.
 
I used the gnuinstall.py python script like many others but when I tried to 
run my first script in python I got an error message ImportError: No module 
named gnuradio. I don't know what is the problem, the gnuradio is installed, 
the latest one GNU Radio 3.3.0.
 
Could anybody help me with some ideas, how to make it work, and what I'm 
missing.
 
The second question would be. I would like to use the GNU Radio for a real 
application. I want to make a .NET application with Delphi Prism and to be able 
to get data from USRP an set data. There are many informations out there to 
emulate python (there are even DLL files) to be able to run python scripts from 
a .NET application. What I want is to exchange data with some devices running 
on 2 ISM bands (433 and 868). I will make an application with Visual Studio 
2010 and I would like to be abel to read data through python script, interprete 
data and display in the form as some value or a therometer showing the value 
sent by a device. Wireless devices will have ASK, OOK modulation, some simple 
stuff. Anybody have made something like this and could help me to start it, 
I'll make all the work but I need some help from those who already made 
something like this.
 
Do you have any other idea how could I implement this, what other solution 
do exists? A alternative would be to use LabView but there are problems, too. 
No documentation or some help. It would be very good to have some DLL files 
that would implement functions and interface to the USB data, but even if I was 
searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything.
 
I'm opened to any suggestion, because right now I'm stuck, I don't have any 
idea.
 
Thank you very much for any idea. I wish everybody a nice day.
 
Best regards,
Sam Evans.


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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-04 Thread Josh Blum



thank you very much for your answer. I don't really like Linux because it 
has
many problems. As I'm writing you this message I'm installing Ubuntu on a
VirtualPC, everything was OK, but when files were copied to the Virtual drive it
gave me a BIG error, some I/O error while copying, so this is what I'm talking
about, many problems and is very slow compared to Windows.



Flamewar much?

Of course its slower, its a virtual machine; and of course it crashed, 
you were running it on windows! BTW I have a virtual windows running on 
ubuntu to test UHD compilation. Its slow compared to its host system, 
but not many problems in the crashing department. Virtualbox FYI


Lb4lb, I have found windows to be frustrating as a development 
environment, and more sluggish with the IO. However, both platforms 
crash in their own ways and lack support in their own ways.


If you just want to get some samples in and out of a USRP2 without using 
gnuradio as a DSP library then you can use the UHD which builds native 
on windows: http://ettus-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki


It has USRP1 support, but I have not tested libusb1.0 under windows. So, 
that being uncharted territory at the moment...


-Josh

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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-04 Thread Sam Evans
Hi William,

   thank you very much for your answer. I don't really like Linux because it 
has 
many problems. As I'm writing you this message I'm installing Ubuntu on a 
VirtualPC, everything was OK, but when files were copied to the Virtual drive 
it 
gave me a BIG error, some I/O error while copying, so this is what I'm talking 
about, many problems and is very slow compared to Windows. 


    Anyway I will try to install some older versions, maybe I will have some 
luck to install it.

    I would like to make the biggest part by myself, not using LabView or 
Matlab 
and neither Linux. What I would like to do is to use Windows environment, to 
install GNU Radio, emulate python in a OOP environment, meaning -> execute 
scripts in a software and get out data. I don't want to use USRP and GNU Radio 
to see waveforms (only at the begining when I will try it out and when I will 
write the script), I want to transfer data, to communicate with other wireless 
devices, etc. I want to use it in the practical side to transfer data, if I 
could get 2 bytes of data from a wireless device using microcontroller it would 
be heaven. This is the hardest part, to transfer my first byte of data, after 
tha I could make some nice things, nice systems.

    Thank you very much for your answer and I would be very happy to receive 
any 
idea from anybody.

Best regards,
Sam Evans.





From: William Cox 
To: Sam Evans ; GNU Radio Discussion 

Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 6:50:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

Sam, 

Coming from a Windows user, I have to say that switching to Ubuntu was 1) 
extremely easy and 2) greatly accelerated my understand and ability to use 
GNURadio/USRP - mainly because I could use the GRC, which is a Labview-like 
graphical interface to GNURadio and USRP.
I'd *highly* recommend giving it a shot first, at least to learn with, before 
trying Windows development.
That's my 0.02. YMMV.

Also check out the Simulink libraries - I think they're linked from Ettus.com

-William



On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Sam Evans  wrote:

Hi everybody,
>
>    I would like to ask some questions regarding USRP. I really need some 
>help. 
>I got my USRP with a WBX and LP0410. I work on a computer running Windows XP. 
>After I read many thing about how to install the GNU Radio in Windows 
>environment I could install it using MingW. 
>
>
>    I used the gnuinstall.py python script like many others but when I tried 
>to 
>run my first script in python I got an error message ImportError: No module 
>named gnuradio. I don't know what is the problem, the gnuradio is installed, 
>the 
>latest one GNU Radio 3.3.0.
>
>    Could anybody help me with some ideas, how to make it work, and what I'm 
>missing.
>
>    The second question would be. I would like to use the GNU Radio for a real 
>application. I want to make a .NET application with Delphi Prism and to be 
>able 
>to get data from USRP an set data. There are many informations out there to 
>emulate python (there are even DLL files) to be able to run python scripts 
>from 
>a .NET application. What I want is to exchange data with some devices running 
>on 
>2 ISM bands (433 and 868). I will make an application with Visual Studio 2010 
>and I would like to be abel to read data through python script, interprete 
>data 
>and display in the form as some value or a therometer showing the value sent 
>by 
>a device. Wireless devices will have ASK, OOK modulation, some simple stuff. 
>Anybody have made something like this and could help me to start it, I'll make 
>all the work but I need some help from those who already made something like 
>this.
>
>    Do you have any other idea how could I implement this, what other solution 
>do exists? A alternative would be to use LabView but there are problems, too. 
>No 
>documentation or some help. It would be very good to have some DLL files that 
>would implement functions and interface to the USB data, but even if I was 
>searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything.
>
>    I'm opened to any suggestion, because right now I'm stuck, I don't have 
>any 
>idea. 
>
>
>    Thank you very much for any idea. I wish everybody a nice day.
>
>Best regards,
>Sam Evans.
>
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-02 Thread William Cox
Sam,

Coming from a Windows user, I have to say that switching to Ubuntu was 1)
extremely easy and 2) greatly accelerated my understand and ability to use
GNURadio/USRP - mainly because I could use the GRC, which is a Labview-like
graphical interface to GNURadio and USRP.
I'd *highly* recommend giving it a shot first, at least to learn with,
before trying Windows development.
That's my 0.02. YMMV.

Also check out the Simulink libraries - I think they're linked from
Ettus.com

-William


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Sam Evans  wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I would like to ask some questions regarding USRP. I really need some
> help. I got my USRP with a WBX and LP0410. I work on a computer running
> Windows XP. After I read many thing about how to install the GNU Radio in
> Windows environment I could install it using MingW.
>
> I used the gnuinstall.py python script like many others but when I
> tried to run my first script in python I got an error message ImportError:
> No module named gnuradio. I don't know what is the problem, the gnuradio is
> installed, the latest one GNU Radio 3.3.0.
>
> Could anybody help me with some ideas, how to make it work, and what
> I'm missing.
>
> The second question would be. I would like to use the GNU Radio for a
> real application. I want to make a .NET application with Delphi Prism and to
> be able to get data from USRP an set data. There are many informations out
> there to emulate python (there are even DLL files) to be able to run python
> scripts from a .NET application. What I want is to exchange data with some
> devices running on 2 ISM bands (433 and 868). I will make an application
> with Visual Studio 2010 and I would like to be abel to read data through
> python script, interprete data and display in the form as some value or a
> therometer showing the value sent by a device. Wireless devices will have
> ASK, OOK modulation, some simple stuff. Anybody have made something like
> this and could help me to start it, I'll make all the work but I need some
> help from those who already made something like this.
>
> Do you have any other idea how could I implement this, what other
> solution do exists? A alternative would be to use LabView but there are
> problems, too. No documentation or some help. It would be very good to have
> some DLL files that would implement functions and interface to the USB data,
> but even if I was searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything.
>
> I'm opened to any suggestion, because right now I'm stuck, I don't have
> any idea.
>
> Thank you very much for any idea. I wish everybody a nice day.
>
> Best regards,
> Sam Evans.
>
>
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[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

2010-09-01 Thread Sam Evans
Hi everybody,

    I would like to ask some questions regarding USRP. I really need some help. 
I got my USRP with a WBX and LP0410. I work on a computer running Windows XP. 
After I read many thing about how to install the GNU Radio in Windows 
environment I could install it using MingW. 


    I used the gnuinstall.py python script like many others but when I tried to 
run my first script in python I got an error message ImportError: No module 
named gnuradio. I don't know what is the problem, the gnuradio is installed, 
the 
latest one GNU Radio 3.3.0.

    Could anybody help me with some ideas, how to make it work, and what I'm 
missing.

    The second question would be. I would like to use the GNU Radio for a real 
application. I want to make a .NET application with Delphi Prism and to be able 
to get data from USRP an set data. There are many informations out there to 
emulate python (there are even DLL files) to be able to run python scripts from 
a .NET application. What I want is to exchange data with some devices running 
on 
2 ISM bands (433 and 868). I will make an application with Visual Studio 2010 
and I would like to be abel to read data through python script, interprete data 
and display in the form as some value or a therometer showing the value sent by 
a device. Wireless devices will have ASK, OOK modulation, some simple stuff. 
Anybody have made something like this and could help me to start it, I'll make 
all the work but I need some help from those who already made something like 
this.

    Do you have any other idea how could I implement this, what other solution 
do exists? A alternative would be to use LabView but there are problems, too. 
No 
documentation or some help. It would be very good to have some DLL files that 
would implement functions and interface to the USB data, but even if I was 
searching for a long time, I couldn't find anything.

    I'm opened to any suggestion, because right now I'm stuck, I don't have any 
idea. 


    Thank you very much for any idea. I wish everybody a nice day.

Best regards,
Sam Evans.


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