Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PowerMate won't run?

2005-07-18 Thread James Cooley
Clark, There's a couple of tricks to get it to work. Can you tell us a little more info about your linux config? I have it setup to run with udev which is a little bit harder to get working than if you don't. Here's a good web page that describes this process: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gr

[Discuss-gnuradio] Stopping Flow Graph, Re-connecting Audio

2005-07-12 Thread James Cooley
Hi all, Does anyone know how to successfully change audio in the middle of execution? I've swapped out other blocks before, so I'm familiar with that. Actually, I'm changing the guts connected to the audio, using the usual flow graph stop, disconnect, connect blocks. I tried changing the guts

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT of FFTs

2005-07-12 Thread James Cooley
s thermometer setups in Home Depot, Target, K-mart, and the like. Or, were you looking for something a little faster? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+michael.weber=baesystems.com@ gnu.org] On Behalf Of James Cooley Sent: Sunday, July

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT of FFTs

2005-07-10 Thread James Cooley
Any more suggestions on spotting periodic content? (as below?) Chiefly, can anyone think of something that I might be able to definitely pick out within TVRX range? -jamie James Cooley wrote: OK, I'm just getting around to trying these suggestions... First, re Eric's suggest

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FFT of FFTs

2005-07-05 Thread James Cooley
(self, panel, title="Occupancy FFT", fft_size = 512, sample_rate=usrp_rate, baseband_freq=0) self.connect (src, cplx_to_mag, iir_low_pass, occ_fft) Eric Blossom wrote: On Sat, Jun 18,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CVS build problem with shared_ptr.hpp

2005-06-26 Thread James Cooley
yes, I think you need to use the -with-boost-include-dir. For instance, my boost is in /usr/local\/include/boost-1_32, I have to say ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-boost_include-dir=/usr/local/include/boost-1_32/ when configuring from cvs. try using it and give it the path you m

[Discuss-gnuradio] FFT of FFTs

2005-06-18 Thread James Cooley
Hi all, I'm trying to take an FFT of an FFT Basically, I want to tune to a signal, and for a given RF frequency, try to spot periodic usage of that frequency. Is this possible? What I have now is hopelessly slow, so I'm not really sure if I've got it right. My construct so far is like th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tvrx_nbfm_rcv_gui.py problem -- "module profile not found"

2005-06-12 Thread James Cooley
een, you won't get them. There's probably a flag you can give it to overwrite. Alternatively, you could edit the copy in your lib/python/site-packages/gnuradio/wxgui dir. Now, you're really hacking things, be careful! -j John Ackermann N8UR wrote: Thanks! John James

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tvrx_nbfm_rcv_gui.py problem -- "module profile not found"

2005-06-12 Thread James Cooley
Yes, it's just looking for the profile python module which you probably don't have installed.. I don't either, so I commented it out. This change should probably be made in cvs, but you can do it yourself if you are desperate. In gr-wxgui/src/python/waterfallsink.py, just comment out the incl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Big FFTs, etc

2005-06-11 Thread James Cooley
Is the test_ccc_004 check in gnuradio-core new with these updates? Is it really necessary? It's set for 1000 loops and is taking a very long time to run through them all. Hours. -jamie Eric Blossom wrote: I've made some changes to the buffer sizing algorithm such that we can now compute

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Delta 44

2005-05-27 Thread James Cooley
What is the story with this 0xf0f0f0f[02] overload stuff? I've been doing the same, subbing in 0 and 2 as others have been mentioning. However, unless I'm missing something, I am using the latest code. I just upgraded to python2.4, manually removed all the 2.3 site-packages, rebuilt from scratc

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread James Cooley
All, I've got a Targus 150W APV07US Slimline inverter and a Buslink external usb enclosure... works great. Only things are that the Targus lets out this ear-splitting beep for some unknown reason when it starts up Also, my car's a bit flaky in that it shuts off the cigarette lighter power a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] *much* faster filtering --- plus vhf mountaintopping

2005-05-11 Thread James Cooley
I have successfully used an external USB 2 drive along with the usrp, no problems. And that's with a USB hub with USB2 drive as well as a GPS attached and spewing data. There's a trick, though compression. You can make a fifo, ask gnuradio to write to it, and zip it. In one window, make the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] trying to add a button...

2005-05-10 Thread James Cooley
This sort of code worked for me: hbox = wx.BoxSizer (wx.HORIZONTAL) btn = wx.Button(self.panel, 1001, "STOP", style=wx.BU_EXACTFIT) wx.EVT_BUTTON(self.panel, 1001, self.quit) vbox.Add(btn, 0, wx.EXPAND) mjam01 wrote: Hi guys, I'm trying to add a button to the tvrx_w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrper fails in usb_claim_interface

2005-04-28 Thread James Cooley
for a while and heats up? In any case, a quick force reload does the trick. > usrper load_standard_bits -j Eric Blossom wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:19:37PM -0400, James Cooley wrote: How does the USRP know to load its firmware? Every time you instantiate a usrp source or sink it c

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrper fails in usb_claim_interface

2005-04-27 Thread James Cooley
When you unplug, are you unplugging from power and/or the usb? Hard to say, I believe I have done both. However, I haven't been able to piece together an exact set of circumstances that lead to this problem. Sometimes it happens, sometimes not is about the best that I can say for now. ;) I'

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrper fails in usb_claim_interface

2005-04-27 Thread James Cooley
I am now seeing something like this one crop up, very annoying. Basically, I'm running in RX mode for a while. I stop running. I may unplug usrp, plug it in. Then: usrp: found usrp rev2 usrp_open_interface:usb_claim_interface: failed interface 2 could not claim interface 2: N

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Waterfall spectrum display

2005-04-24 Thread James Cooley
Heyy, it's not so bad! ;) Maybe that's because I'm quite happy with debian-style automatic dependency fixing. apt-get install foo far superior... -j Marcus D. Leech wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: Those of you who think we've got too many dependencies already need not apply ;-) Eric rpm -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Waterfall spectrum display

2005-04-20 Thread James Cooley
Quite apart from the standard wx GUIs, I've been playing a bit with OpenGL. This one is the first of two open GL displays I've been toying with: http://web.media.mit.edu/~jcooley/gr_experiments/experiments/fft_3d_time/gr_3d_fft_time.htm It's a bit like a combined waterfall and standard fft display

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr_experiments

2005-04-09 Thread James Cooley
Hey all, I've posted a few of my own working gnuradio experiments on this web page: http://web.media.mit.edu/~jcooley/gr_experiments/index.htm I thought these might be useful relevant to several recent postings and I've learned much from Chuck's online lab notebook, so I decided to create one too

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pipe Tricks

2005-04-06 Thread James Cooley
I had a similar thing I was using sockets, but then got it to work. Are you sure the fd is staying in scope for the duration of the run? -jamie cswiger wrote: Trying pipe_fd = open("/pipe","r") gr.file_descriptor_source(gr.sizeof_char,pipe_fd.fileno()) starts out but as soon as I start the s

[Discuss-gnuradio] File formats, some header data per frame

2005-04-01 Thread James Cooley
Hi all, There was some talk a few weeks back on creating a file format in which there's a header storing info like the sample rate, capture freq, decimation, etc. I would like to create such a file, but would like to store some small amount of data once per work cycle. The idea is to constantly

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr.fft_vcc usage in make_fft_sink_X

2005-03-16 Thread James Cooley
I wasn't sure of the difference either... Except that I know that with the separate_streams/combine_streams, I had to dynamically create the number of IN/OUT streams depending on the fft size. (Note, maybe sync_decimator handles the num in/out streams implicitly?) Parallelize looks to me like

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gmsk and sockets

2005-03-11 Thread James Cooley
In using socket file descriptors, what is different about Bob's setup and mine? I'm trying to create a very basic example of writing a sin source over socket to display and end up getting "Bad file descriptor" errors and the thing connects and then dies with: Connection: Address: ('127.0.0.1

[Discuss-gnuradio] Averaging FFT output using FIR filters

2005-03-08 Thread James Cooley
Hi all, We were talking about a month ago about building an averager of ffts using fir filters (see "new peakfinding and averaging wxgui fft code") and Martin's comments. I thought I'd try the fft route out so have built some blocks that should do this. The flow graph is supposed to operate lik

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] wxPython programming

2005-02-23 Thread James Cooley
Hi Chuck/All I have a rough version of exactly what you seek that I did today! See attached. Not cleaned, no guarantees, but suggestions/improvements welcome. I have a wrapper class, gr_powermate which wraps the standard python powermate lib posted recently. Also, I got tired of setting and cal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Some nice HUM

2005-02-22 Thread James Cooley
Found the source. Silly me. Actually, I'm running an auxiliary little LCD display off of the i2c bus. That was it. Probably bad decoupling on my part. -jamie Eric Blossom wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:20:12PM -0500, James Cooley wrote: Hi all, OK, Got FM radio and FM stereo to work

[Discuss-gnuradio] Some nice HUM

2005-02-22 Thread James Cooley
Hi all, OK, Got FM radio and FM stereo to work using USRP + Basic RX + microtune 4937 frontend. I'm hearing a nice hum along with whatever I tune into. Anyone else? This is not 60Hz, but, purely guessing here, it *could* be 120Hz. Could this be an image of the 60Hz somehow? Also, how do I get ri

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] NBFM

2005-02-22 Thread James Cooley
I'm having a bit of trouble getting this one to work... I'm running the input through a microtune 4937 frontend, so that the IF is 5.75e6. I've changed Matt's nbfm script just to adjust this IF_freq. Is there anything else that needs to be done? I'm trying to tune to a known station, the weather