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Hi Darin:
Just chiming in. I use MacPorts, it works really well. There is
the occasional build error if the MacPorts folks are behind
gnuradio developments a bit, but generally there are no problems.
I use Ubuntu for my main gnuradio machine. The RTL dongles are
good and quite versatile.
You'll love gnuradio once you get it working. Start with some
simple flowgraphs, do lots of reading and build on your knowledge
from there. Expect a learning curve though! Ask here on the list
for good books and reference material.
Kevin
On 2016-07-05 5:37 AM, Darin Decker
wrote:
Much appreciated Mark. Yeah, I've seen screen prints and
videos and agree it looks amazing. I'll follow the MacPorts path
as you suggest. Eighth now it is getting stuck with the xterm
comment and then saying no osmosdr so will work on resolving
those first.
Hey Darin,
If you just want the GNU
Radio environment up and don't plan on doing any UHD
development then my vote for you is the MacBookPro using
MacPorts.
Be aware, none of these
flows are trouble free. Over the last couple of months
I've tried Mac, Ubuntu, and Windows 7. Macports gives
(for me at least) the nicest final environment to work
in.
The thing with MacPorts
is that all the dependancies are constantly in flux. So
sign up as a MacPorts user so you can post problems.
When you install gnuradio one or more of the
dependancies is likely fail. Try installing the failing
one alone and see if it will finish, be sure to get the
specific version right. Sometime this requires going
through the "verbose" log file to get the right name.
You may have to uninstall a few and try again. Be
prepared to burn a *lot* of time. Seems to be the
nature of the beast. Often something is broken and you
have to post the problem to MacPorts to the owner of the
particular package. It usually is turned around in a
day or so; remarkable really considering that this is
all done gratis.
If this sounds like a pain it is; but it gets you a
recent release of GNU Radio that is compiled for your
machine. I'm pretty much in awe at the amount of work
put in by the MacPorts team and by the GNU Radio
developers.
I installed the
fosphor waterfall display for grc and that is truly
stunning on the Mac. Hard to think that it is open
source.
Best of luck,
Mark Napier
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:52:25 -0500
From: Darin Decker <address@hidden>
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Good morning, I have been
trying to get Gnuradio up and and running all weekend on
either a Macbook Pro or a System 76 Ubuntu 12.04 machine
but have not had any success. If I understand correctly,
Ubuntu 12.04 is not supported so I have not pursued that
much but focused on the Macbook Pro.
When I try to run
gnuradio-companion on the Mac, I initially get 'The xterm
executable ? is missing?. When I search for gnu
radio.conf, the file doesn?t seem to be on the computer.
Then when I run a simple
flow(RTL-SDR Source -> WX GUI FFT Sink), i get a python
error of no module named osmosdr.
Then I tried the Live DVD.
Trying both from DVD and from USB Flashdrive. On both the
System 76 and the Mac hardware, I get the same issue.
I have an RTL-SDR device and
I believe the program is recognizing the device because it
says Rafael Tuner 820; however, it then says PLL won?t
lock. I have tried multiple FM broadcast frequencies; as
well as, AM broadcast frequencies. On the FM, I?m
inputting values of 101.1e06 for example. On the AM I
input 108e04 as an example(1080 on am dial is the intended
target in that case).
I also have a SDRplay but
can?t get that to connect at all. Looks like if you don?t
have a Windows machine, that doesn?t seem to work well
yet. Guessing drivers or something on SDRplay side.
Any help is greatly
appreciated. For right now, I?m just wanting to get it up
and running in any way possible.
Darin
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