Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with gnuradio-companion

2016-08-03 Thread Mike Willis
find it? Presumably in a switch to cmake but there is nothing about this I can find in the pybombs documentation. Mike On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Mike Willis wrote: > The file is there so its not that. Nor was the suggestion by Cinaed > Simson successful. Gnuradio runs OK, but not gn

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with gnuradio-companion

2016-08-03 Thread Mike Willis
The file is there so its not that. Nor was the suggestion by Cinaed Simson successful. Gnuradio runs OK, but not gnuradio-companion. Hmm. mike@mjw-i7:~/gnuradio/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/grc$ ls -l total 52 -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 2374 Aug 1 12:22 checks.py -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 2420 A

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with gnuradio-companion

2016-08-01 Thread Mike Willis
I can't fix this one - 3 hours trying and I have given up. Ubuntu 16.04. gnuradio-companion isn't working. Everything else seems to be fine, existing flowgraphs run OK, even gqrx. I have tried a complete re-installation, right back to the pybombs prefix init stage but no dice. Any ideas? mike@mjw

[Discuss-gnuradio] Sigh - 16.04 build failure

2016-05-07 Thread Mike Willis
Why is it always so difficult? Assume something broken in latest Ubuntu LTS pybombs -vv install gnuradio > error.txt [ 62%] Built target pygen_volk_python_volk_modtool_fe055 [ 62%] Built target pmt_generated [ 62%] Built target pygen_volk_python_volk_modtool_00079 [ 62%] Built target volk_obj [ 6

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build problems with pybombs

2016-03-06 Thread Mike Willis
Sorry - wrong one - the similar thread was from April last year http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2015-04/msg00151.html On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Mike wrote: > Here is the rather similar error I referred to earlier, not the same but > similar characteristics _

[Discuss-gnuradio] Fwd: Pybombs 2.0 woes

2016-03-06 Thread Mike Willis
Here is the error [ 4%] Building CXX object lib/CMakeFiles/uhd.dir/usrp/cores/rx_dsp_core_200.cpp.o In file included from /usr/local/src/uhd/host/lib/usrp/cores/dsp_core_utils.hpp:21:0, from /usr/local/src/uhd/host/lib/usrp/cores/rx_dsp_core_200.cpp:19: /usr/local/src/uhd/host/in

[Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs 2.0 woes

2016-03-05 Thread Mike Willis
I just wasted an hour or so trying to get this to work. Clearly it is still early beta but with promise. The first time I tried I got as far as the UHD install, which crashed with an uninformative error 2. I think there is some implicit assumption going on in the developers head that non developers

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problem in installing - uint64_t appears to be undefined.

2016-01-16 Thread Mike Willis
I am stuck again with what looks like a repeat of a problem that was fixed in April with UHD and the standard definitions not being recognised. To be clear and hopefully avoid repeats of previous comments, this is a Gnuradio dependency and installed initially by default via pybombs so it is somethi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SSB/CW/FM tranceiver

2015-11-08 Thread Mike Willis
Thanks all - Ron that was just what I was looking for - and to Markus, you don't make a transmitter because you want one, you do it because you can. Not having antennas is hardly a handicap. You can still build a system with lots of power to warm a dummy load, because it's fun to do that. Mike

[Discuss-gnuradio] SSB/CW/FM tranceiver

2015-11-07 Thread Mike Willis
GQRX works very well but is there or might there be any plans to develop a comprehensive tranceiver based on gnuradio? SDRs like the hackRF and the Ettus USRPs provide great building blocks for a VHF/UHF amateur radio station, with only filtering and amplification needed to cover all bands from 4m

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs UHD install

2015-07-19 Thread Mike Willis
I will see once it finishes compiling. Mike On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Mike Willis wrote: > Ah – and what is Mako? Google reveals: > > > > “Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, > non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs UHD install

2015-07-19 Thread Mike Willis
] Sent: 19 July 2015 21:32 To: Nathan West Cc: Mike Willis; discuss-gnuradio Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs UHD install Sorry, to clarify: the recent transition to mako. Update your recipes and the latest ones will have mako. On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, West, Nathan mailto:n

[Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs UHD install

2015-07-19 Thread Mike Willis
Did I do something wrong? I just tried to update gnuradio and in pybombs UHD downloads lots of data which it then compiles and installs in about 5 seconds. I can't imagine it is really doing that. Then the following gnuradio build fails because it can't find the UHD libs. Not surprising really as a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Input items vs Output items

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
Thanks for the HDLC tip. A neat bit of code. I have not worked with message ports before. I have looked at the examples and managed to get PDUs displayed in the console as hex dumps using the debug block, but how can I do things with them? My own block takes the packet data, extracts the payloa

[Discuss-gnuradio] Input items vs Output items

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
Hi Marcus Thanks for the quick answer. I didn't know about nitems_written(0) but I did wonder why the system didn't already know. It's been a while since I used GDB but I will have a go. I don't quite understand - when you say "do make sure your string isn't going to be longer than you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Input items vs Output items

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
ginal Message- From: Mike Willis [mailto:willis...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 April 2015 13:58 To: GNURadio Discussion List Subject: Input items vs Output items I am slightly confused with the way you implement a general work function - here is my AX25 decoder which takes in bits and outputs de

[Discuss-gnuradio] Input items vs Output items

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
I am slightly confused with the way you implement a general work function - here is my AX25 decoder which takes in bits and outputs decoded packets in text format as a stream of 8 bit integers. This was based on the general work example in the GR tutorial. int ax25_impl::general_work (int noutput_

[Discuss-gnuradio] Writing text to a QT Gui Window

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
I am wondering how I might write stuff to a gui window from my OOT blocks rather than to the console. I don't see anything in the standard blocks - a gui text sink for example. I assume I will need to write something but am short on examples of gui output Mike _

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs bombs

2015-04-07 Thread Mike Willis
[mailto:trond...@trondeau.com] On Behalf Of Tom Rondeau Sent: 08 April 2015 00:32 To: Mike Willis Cc: Richard Bell; GNURadio Discussion List Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs bombs On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Mike Willis mailto:willis...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hi Tom. I thin

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs bombs

2015-04-07 Thread Mike Willis
: Mike Willis Cc: Richard Bell; GNURadio Discussion List Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs bombs On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Mike Willis mailto:willis...@gmail.com> > wrote: Thanks - I tried that. Same issue.Something wrong with UHD and my setup perhaps? Mike Have you as

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs bombs

2015-04-07 Thread Mike Willis
bs install gnuradio > > If you still have an issue then go from there. > > v/r, > Rich > > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Mike Willis wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I made a mistake this morning and tried to refresh gnuradio with >> pybombs to

[Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs bombs

2015-04-07 Thread Mike Willis
Hi All, I made a mistake this morning and tried to refresh gnuradio with pybombs to test an FCD ProPlus against the latest main branch. Pybombs has worked fine up until now and I successfully installed it on a different machine on Sunday. Today it crashed and I found it had an empty volk directory

[Discuss-gnuradio] Demodulating short bursts of BPSK

2015-04-02 Thread Mike Willis
I have an application that needs to decode short bursts of DBPSK data (which I am not generating myself). The problem I am having is that the standard PSK Demod blocks don't lock up in time to correctly decode the first few flags in the packetised data, which means I generally lose the first packet

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] doppler correction

2014-12-02 Thread Mike Willis
Maria, You can't readily do it that way. The demodulator works at baseband, opening it up to that extent, unless you have a very wideband signal, wouldn't work. My solution is to use the frequency translating FIR filter block to shift your received frequency to baseband. I am doing this at VHF

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sampling slowly

2014-11-30 Thread Mike Willis
will try and sync it to the sample rate to see if that slows it down. Mike From: Seth Hitefield [mailto:sd...@vt.edu] Sent: 30 November 2014 16:25 To: Mike Willis Cc: Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sampling slowly That may work, but it may cause problems with the scheduler if you are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sampling slowly

2014-11-30 Thread Mike Willis
workload. Mike From: Seth Hitefield [mailto:sd...@vt.edu] Sent: 30 November 2014 15:35 To: Mike Willis Cc: Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Sampling slowly I would suggest looking at the message-strobe block and using messages. - Seth Sent from my iPhone On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:11 AM

[Discuss-gnuradio] Sampling slowly

2014-11-30 Thread Mike Willis
Looking for help I have written a source block to do satellite predictions. It acts as a source of a float representing the input parameter - e.g. elevation. The block probes predict via UDP, looks at the string returned and selects the asked for parameter. So far fine, but I would like to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] linking Gnuradio and Gpredict ?

2014-11-24 Thread Mike Willis
I know this is going back a bit but I would like to do the same thing for my Gnuradio satellite ground station. I was actually tempted to compile satellite tracking into a Gnuradio block. One you could simply use in a flowchart without any of the messing about with XMLRPC but like my new hexagonal

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problems with Gnuradio-Companion

2014-11-22 Thread Mike Willis
or even better some checking of the XML to warn people. It ought to be clear from the context that a user is not attempting to call a python function in describing a variable name. It is probably also the case that any function in any library that is imported is also not usable. Mik

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problems with Gnuradio-Companion

2014-11-22 Thread Mike Willis
Thanks to Sebastian for his help. This appears to be a bug? Well maybe my bug. My input parameter was intended as an identification number and not unreasonably I called it "id". Apparently I can't call the parameter "id". I can call it "ix" and grc will find it. What on earth? Mike

[Discuss-gnuradio] Problems with Gnuradio-Companion

2014-11-22 Thread Mike Willis
Hi everyone How does gnuradio-companion find and recognise blocks? Why is it so damned difficult for a normal person to write and maintain a block? I had developed a working block written which functioned fine, even in gnuradio-companion. I needed an extra parameter so I added this. I

[Discuss-gnuradio] Saving to file with a timestamp

2014-11-22 Thread Mike Willis
I have a flowgraph working that I want to use to save data to a file. I would like the file name to update each time, ideally with a time stamp as part of the name. Is this possible directly from GRC of will I need to write a block? Mike ___ Discuss-

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PSK demodulator and Doppler

2014-09-02 Thread Mike Willis
Hi Colin, Not really, though there is an AX25 style header. Far from ideal 0110 flags. Mike From: Colby Boyer [mailto:colby.bo...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 September 2014 03:11 To: Mike Willis Cc: GNU Radio Discussion Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PSK demodulator and Doppler On

[Discuss-gnuradio] PSK demodulator and Doppler

2014-09-02 Thread Mike Willis
I am trying to develop a satellite ground station using the PSK demodulator block. This works fine when tuned accurately. However, with low satellites there is quite a bit of Doppler at VHF / UHF and there is also some frequency drift with satellite temperature as it enters or comes out of eclipse.

[Discuss-gnuradio] Clarification

2014-08-07 Thread Mike Willis
I still have the problem with the AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute problem for my OOT module. Really clutching at straws now, hair all gone. Can anyone explain in plain English what the following advice from the WiKi means? I am sure it is 100% clear to whoever wrote it but it means

[Discuss-gnuradio] PSK Demodulator performance

2014-05-03 Thread Mike Willis
Does anyone have any information on the performance - specifically the implementation loss of the Gnuradio PSK demodulator block? I am trying to work out a link budget. Typically this would be 1dB or so from ideal. Mike ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing l

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build problems with pybombs

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
just updated as > well?) and using Boost 1.54 with no problems. 14.04 also has Boost 1.55 > available for install, and that might be what you're pulling down. > > This is really a UHD-related issue: > https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd/pull/2 > > > Tom > > >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build problems with pybombs

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
d 64 bit laptop running > Ubuntu 14.04 Strangely, I built last night on a similar laptop with no > problems. > > Very Respectfully, > > Dan CaJacob > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Mike Willis wrote: > >> Yet more difficulties. Having found a work around fo

[Discuss-gnuradio] Build problems with pybombs

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Willis
Yet more difficulties. Having found a work around for the Usb issue with the B200, I was then unable to get any of the audio examples to run again due to /dev/dsp not being present and gnuradio insisting on using oss. I Decided I must not have built it correctly so I tried re-building yet again wit

[Discuss-gnuradio] Pybombs and FAT32

2014-03-23 Thread Mike Willis
I am a bit short of disk space on my laptop, which is dual boot with a 128Gbyte SSD with only 10GBytes devoted exclusively to Linux. Pybombs installation of Gnuradio has now grown to use over 5 GBytes so I though why not put all the source code on my FAT32 partition on a 64Gbyte SD card. Unfortunat

[Discuss-gnuradio] Successful installation of GNURadio 3.6.4.1 on Window XP and Windows 8

2013-12-26 Thread Mike Willis
Thanks - this explains all of my issues and many hours of frustrated re-installation and searching - why supply it without the DLLs? Mike b. Although it is possible to successfully install GNURadio binaries for versions 3.7.x, none of them include runtime DLLs for WX GUI blocks. Hence these block