[Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Senior
Hello all, I've been trying to use the set_start_time() method of usrp_source to start my USRP N210 streaming data at a known time. The USRP has the GPSDO fitted and the time is set automatically from this, so I can specify an absolute time for when I want streaming to begin. I've done this s

[Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Vikas N Kumar
Hi I am researching methods/algorithms to perform descrambling of scrambled radio waves as part of a research project. - I was hoping to find out if anyone here knows about or has resources where GNU radio is being used for doing such things. If yes, what algorithms are possibly used to scramble

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Patrik Tast
Hi Vikas, If the signal is crypted then it was not ment for you unless you have a KEY to "unlock". In CCSDS (digital reception) frame header there is a bit telling you if data is/not crypted. It also contains the key number that you have to use to descramble it. GNU Radio does not support ha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Vikas N Kumar
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Patrik Tast wrote: > If the signal is crypted then it was not ment for you unless you have a KEY > to "unlock". > In CCSDS (digital reception) frame header there is a bit telling you if data > is/not crypted. It also contains the key number that you have to use to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Patrik Tast
Sample CCSDS frames that were crypted (not ment for my eyes) http://www.poes-weather.com/~aptdecoder/martin/Meteosat9--LRIT/2011-11-17-meteosat9--cadu.txt P - Original Message - From: "Patrik Tast" To: "Vikas N Kumar" ; Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 17:01 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py destination host unreachable

2012-06-19 Thread Weixian Zhou
It works! Thanks. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Alex Zhang wrote: > Weixian, > > Here is a temp solution, not sure it works or not: > > In the csma_mac.main_loop() of your tunnel.py, add a > time_sleep(fixed_delay) right after the payload is read from the OS. You > can set fixed_delay as 0.01

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Patrik Tast
Most likely it is a 64bit PIN Seed that your key will contain. If you do not know it then data was not ment for "your eyes". Descrambling doesn't necessarily mean hacking for malicious purposes, it can also mean learning existing systems to design better/more efficient ones for the future. If y

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Nick Foster
Andrew, There is a better way. If you look in gr_uhd_usrp_sink.cc, it's expecting to see tags indicating start of burst ("tx_sob") and end of burst ("tx_eob") as well as a transmit time ("tx_time"). To issue a start of burst, for instance, use: add_item_tag(0, //stream ID nitems_written(0)+i

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Announcing the LiveUSB SDR Environment

2012-06-19 Thread turbovectorz turbovectorz
Matt, That's AWESOME!!! Thanks for sharing! Definitely, getting a few ASAP!!! - Jose Miguel On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > Ettus Research has released the LiveUSB SDR Environment - a 16 GB > bootable USB 3.0 drive, which comes pre-installed with Ubuntu 11.10, > UHD (USRP

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Martin Braun (CEL)
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:47:49AM -0400, Vikas N Kumar wrote: > - I was hoping to find out if anyone here knows about or has resources > where GNU radio is being used for doing such things. If yes, what > algorithms are possibly used to scramble the content ? Do the > algorithms depend on the hard

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Nowlan, Sean
I thought the "set_start_time" method simply keeps UHD from instantly streaming, and then does this "tx_sob" and "tx_time" tagging for you on the first sample. Sure, it can be done somewhere in the flowgraph using GNU Radio tags, but doesn't this achieve the same end goal with less complexity fo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Senior
Hi Nick, thanks for replying. I'm a bit confused though: it's receiving data from the USRP with gr_uhd_usrp_source that's giving me trouble, not sending it with gr_uhd_usrp_sink. Looking again at gr_uhd_usrp_source.cc I see that tags are added indicating the time of the received samples. I g

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] descrambling radio waves

2012-06-19 Thread Vikas N Kumar
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Martin Braun (CEL) wrote: >> - can we transmit and receive at the same time in the same application >> using the same hardware ? > > This question has a *lot* of caveats. I'll assume you know what you're > doing (and what you can realistically expect), and then th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Nowlan, Sean
Oh, for receiving you should use UHD stream commands. I've never done anything with this myself, but I think "set_command_time" in uhd_usrp_sink will help you. http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/sync.html#align-cordics-in-the-dsp http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/classuhd__usrp__source.ht

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Nick Foster
Hey, I'm losing my mind, apparently. Sorry about the confusion. I was recently hacking on timed TX and my brain apparently read source as sink. The easiest way to get around it is to schedule your receive thread to start sometime less than 1 second before your set_start_time() call expires. This w

[Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio script with RedHat Enterprise Linux 6

2012-06-19 Thread Jonathan Fox
I am trying to use the build-gnuradio script on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 machine and I can not download certain packages. Those packages being wxPython-devel, pygsl, qwtplot3d-qt4-devel, and Orc. I have enabled the optional package stream at the RHN so that is how I was able to narrow it down th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timeout problem using usrp_source.set_start_time()

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Senior
Hi Nick, thanks for your help, I'll give that a try. Regards, Andrew. On 19 Jun 2012, at 18:15, Nick Foster wrote: > Hey, I'm losing my mind, apparently. Sorry about the confusion. I was > recently hacking on timed TX and my brain apparently read source as sink. > > The easiest way to get ar

[Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py doesn't work on expected frequency

2012-06-19 Thread Weixian Zhou
I am using two USRP N210s (daughter boards are XCVR2450) and the supported frequency in theory ranged in 2.4GHz ~ 2.5GHz. I have done experiment to test the working freq using benchmark_tx/benchmark_rx, the working freq is 2.41G, 2,42G, 243G, 2.44G, 2.46G, 2.47G, 2.48G, 2.49G, 2.50G, 2.51G, 2.52G.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py doesn't work on expected frequency

2012-06-19 Thread Josh Blum
On 06/19/2012 02:30 PM, Weixian Zhou wrote: > I am using two USRP N210s (daughter boards are XCVR2450) and the supported > frequency in theory ranged in 2.4GHz ~ 2.5GHz. I have done experiment to > test the working freq using benchmark_tx/benchmark_rx, the working freq is > 2.41G, 2,42G, 243G, 2.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Complex square wave source

2012-06-19 Thread Nick Foster
This is probably a Tom question, but I'm of course open to suggestions from anyone. This is a restatement of Mario Ruz's question on 6/8 after additional conversation on the IRC channel. I think it didn't get much response due to the way it was phrased. I'm not much of a DSP fundamentals guy, so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Complex square wave source

2012-06-19 Thread Josh Blum
> So, I don't actually care what the square wave source emits if there's a > reason for it, but was there a reason it was implemented as a delayed > square wave rather than the analytic representation? Is there actually a > use for complex square/saw/triangle wave sources? Am I just causing troubl

[Discuss-gnuradio] rational resampler question

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen
Hi, I'm trying to convert a flowgraph from grc to c++. In grc there is a rational resampler block and a rational resampler base block. I could not find a c++ version of the rational resampler block. Does a c++ version exist? I don't much about either but I tried to use the rational resampler base

[Discuss-gnuradio] Read daughterboard eeprom from python

2012-06-19 Thread signalswdm
Dear everyone: Is there a method that I can read daughterboard eeprom from python? Or is there anyway that I can know what stored in the daughterboard eeprom in a visible way? Best regards___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP-announce] Announcing the LiveUSB SDR Environment

2012-06-19 Thread S'dir
Hi Matt, Would like to know if there is an iso image file which we can write to CD/USB. Thanks & Regds, Sudhir. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: > Ettus Research has released the LiveUSB SDR Environment - a 16 GB > bootable USB 3.0 drive, which comes pre-installed with Ubuntu

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Basic question about filters

2012-06-19 Thread senthil murugan
Hi, You can look into "Multirate Signal Processing" by Fedrick Harris for more details regarding CIC filter, decimators,etc.. Thanks sencen Message: 10 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:46:43 +0800 (CST) From: signalswdm To: GNURadio Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Basic question about filter Message-ID:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] rational resampler question

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Davis
The rational resampler is part of BLKS2 which is python only. I'm currently working on porting blks2 over to C++ so the API will not be python only, but there is a lot of python code it is built on that needs to be converted first so it could be a bit. You could just do it yourself, all the rationa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Read daughterboard eeprom from python

2012-06-19 Thread Josh Blum
On 06/19/2012 08:05 PM, signalswdm wrote: > Dear everyone: > Is there a method that I can read daughterboard eeprom from python? Or is > there anyway that I can know what stored in the daughterboard eeprom in a > visible way? > > Best regards > > I believe the following call will yield