I think I resolved it; must specify num_samps in the struct (as 0) even if
you want to stream continuously.
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Sivan Toledo <stol...@tau.ac.il> wrote:
> Before this code runs, the TX antenna is set to TX/RX, the RX antenna to
> RX2. The radio is a B200.
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Sivan Toledo <stol...@tau.ac.il> wrote:
>
>> A bit of progress. The error_string might have been used by two threads,
>> so I allocated a new buffer for error messages in the thread that starts
>> streaming and receives samples. This revealed the error message: TX/RX.
>> What is is error?
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Sivan Toledo <stol...@tau.ac.il> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've ported a code from the C++ API to the C API; it runs okay on Linux
>>> but fails on Windows. The failure occurs at the function:
>>>
>>> void radioRxStartStreaming(void) {
>>> uhd_stream_cmd_t stream_cmd;
>>>
>>> size_t n;
>>> uhd_rx_streamer_max_num_samps(rx_stream, &n);
>>> fprintf(stderr,"### UHD max samples %d ###\n",n);
>>>
>>> fprintf(stderr,"### starting rx streaming ###\n");
>>>
>>> stream_cmd.stream_mode = UHD_STREAM_MODE_START_CONTINUOUS;
>>> stream_cmd.stream_now = true;
>>>
>>> if (uhd_rx_streamer_issue_stream_cmd(rx_stream, &stream_cmd)) {
>>> uhd_rx_streamer_last_error(rx_stream, error_string,
>>> ERROR_STRING_LENGTH);
>>> fprintf(stderr,"### cannot start UHD rx streamer: <%s>
>>> ###\n",error_string);
>>> } else {
>>> fprintf(stderr,"### started rx streaming ###\n");
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> issue_stream_command fails but last_error returns an empty string.
>>> The functions uhd_rx_streamer_make(&rx_stream) and
>>> uhd_usrp_get_rx_stream(usrp, &stream_args, rx_stream) are called prior to
>>> the attempt to start the stream, but from another thread. I am using
>>> pthreads in both Linux and Windows (using a pthreads library) and have not
>>> had a problem with this with the C++ API.
>>>
>>> I'm using UHD 3.9.7, installed from uhd_3.9.7-release_Win64_VS2013.exe
>>> <http://files.ettus.com/binaries/uhd/uhd_003.009.007-release/uhd_3.9.7-release_Win64_VS2013.exe>.
>>> The code is linked against visual studio 12.0 (which I think is VS2013)
>>>
>>> Any idea what might be going wrong? It's difficult to debug when the
>>> error message is empty.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Sivan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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