[Hackrf-dev] Finally I got it .... but , Oh what a ride getting there!

[Rich Sanders]

The build-gnuradio script is a great script, but it doesn't appear it is
going to be maintained much longer and the support moved to pybombs.

After installing pybombs  http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki
I had to re-install my libhackrf library to recognize my HackRF with the
OmsoSDR source block.

When you install pybombs, you select "recipes" you want to install, ie
gqrx, ham radio, etc, either via command line or the gui .app_store.py.  Is
it perfect?  Nope, in face I've found some recipes either don't install
correctly or totally screw up my GNURadio load, a bit of patience is
required and performing backups.

It is important to run the build_env script after installing new recipes
and copying the info from the target file to your .bashrc file.

I'm not sure if pybombs takes care of permission issues, I altered my rules
several times before realizing my libhackrf library was messed up.

Rich


On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Duane Snider <duane_snider at earthlink.net>
wrote:

>  Which build-gnuradio script did you use?  I found one here:
> http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio
>
> Also, I'm still digging thru the GNU Radio Companion, but there might be
> an OsmoSDR source block.  If so, you should be able to select a HackRF
> device:
>   http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/GrOsmoSDR
>
>   - Duane
>
>  The FALSE starts:
>
>   1 -  first I went with Pentoo Live DVD (Mike's idea) — NOPE — it didn't
> like my wireless card. GRC worked for lesson one solution once I ran an
> ethernet cable — GRC wants Internet connection. GNU Radio was at  3.7.4
>
>   2 -  then I went with Kali (Darren at Haj5) — Great peripheral support
> (it even liked Toshiba touchscreen), but Alas GNU radio was topped out at
> 3.6.5.1 and 1.0 .7 and 1.0.8 —  then in 1.0.9 they removed GNU radio
> altogether from both Live DVD and repo.
>
>   3 -  next on the list GNU radio Live DVD, HURRAY, gqrx and GNU radio all
> up to snuff — but this this ISO really weird … regardless of whether you
> burning to  a  USB stick or to an actual DVD, the Ubuntu System insists on
> treating it as a CDROM … Will allow no use of  gparted to add space to the
> active partition or create new writable partition, et cetera
>
>   4 -  and last on this list of shame… I installed Ubuntu 14.0 4.1 120 GB
> SSD and then tried to build GNU radio and  GQRX by hand. It worked … but
> alas the Ubuntu repo topped them out at 3.7.2.1 and 2.2.0 respectively. I
> gave up and went to bed.
>
> Now for some good news:
>
>   5  -  I got up from breakfast of  eggs, bacon, and English muffins made
> by my better half with a clear mind and a pretty good idea what to do …
> ˆapp-get removed rtl,, gnu, osmo, etc. Then obtained the script
> build-gnuradio and ran it … and behold I had a working GNU radio at
> version 3.7.5
>
>
>  *** TWO PROBLEMS ***
>
>   6 -  I assume that GQRX would be made by the script, it wasn’t. This URL
> should be very helpful to get GQRX together:
>
>    <
> http://jeffskinnerbox.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/gnu-radio-and-gqrx-sdr-receiver/
> >
>
>   7 -  HackRF doesn't show up in the sources menu and I'll be darned if I
> can figure what the euphemism from the list for it … or …  Do we have a bug
> here?
>
>  *** To Boot or Not to Boot ***
>
> For this exercise in self abuse I was using three machines; a 2012 iMac,
> quad core I7 3.1  GHz and 16 GB RAM, a Toshiba Win 8 laptop with 2 core I3
> and 4GB and touchscreen, and finally a    4 year old Shuttle XPC   a 2.5
> GHz Core 2 Duo , 4 GB and two SSDs (no HDDs at all)
>
> And the winner is the shuttle XPC! Throughout the exercise I almost never
> knew which USB stick, DVD, or SD card would condescend to allow itself to
> be booted. IN the end the old(er) Shuttle loaded all but two or three of
> the various combinations of LINUX OSes and media presented to it.
>
> Right now the Shuttle is running Windows 8.1 240 GB SSD and Ubuntu 14.0
> 4.1 120 GB SSD dual-booted under Grub2. The Linux SSD drive is in an
> external case couple into the system on USB2. This offsets the speed
> advantage of the SSD some what.  I plant  mount  it inside on the SATA bus.
> --
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>
> To Error Is Human, To Forgive Divine,
> Neither of Which Is Marine Corps Policy
> --
> semper fi ... brian  riley, underhill center, vermont
>   <brianbr at wulfden.org>
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