[Hackrf-dev] GNU Radio Companion

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Adam Laurie <adam at aperturelabs.com> wrote:

> On 20/06/13 13:51, Ben Gamari wrote:

>

>>> On 18/06/13 13:49, Ben Gamari wrote:

>

>

>>>

>>> <<< Welcome to GNU Radio Companion 3.6.5 >>>

>>>

>> Note that you are running 3.6. I've been working with 3.7 which differs

>> from 3.6 in a number of block names which explains your errors. If you

>> don't want to hack on GnuRadio, you're probably better off sticking with

>> 3.6.

>

>

> Ah, OK, thanks. So it should be a relatively simple task of renaming the

> blocks or are there other fundamental differences?

>

> My main objective here is to try and build a set of instructions/steps such

> that a novice user (like me) can start doing something useful with hackrf

> without having to become an expert in a bunch of peripheral projects which

> are really nothing to do with the task in hand. Obviously if you want to

> develop hackrf itself this would be necessary but if it is to be useful as a

> general purpose rf research tool it needs to be accessible at a simpler

> level...

>

>

> cheers,

> Adam


Adam,

I think you're underestimating the challenges with SDR. These are
really hard problems and there aren't simple solutions. As a project,
we could do a bit better with making out-of-the-box applications for
certain radio projects. But having worked in software radio for over
10 years now, I can tell you that everyone very quickly graduates
beyond these scripts and needs to start rolling their own. You're
going to come to that hurdle at some point in the very near future. I
know that the osmocom projet has some simple FFT and siggen apps
(http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/GrOsmoSDR)  that were derived from
uhd_fft and uhd_siggen. Those are useful tools to see the spectrum and
do basic interactions, but they are mostly for debugging, testing, and
making sure things work. But you can't to anything particularly
serious with them.


>From working on this stuff, there really isn't anything easier for an

RF guy than launching and working in GRC.

Tom