Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Source block for the funcube pro plus

[Iain Young, G7III]

On 31/03/13 23:29, Alexandru Csete wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Volker Schroer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Just for your information:
> >
> > In imitation of the gr-fcd source I set up a gnuradio source for the funcube
> > pro+ ( linux only) . To avoid the crashes depending on libusb I used the
> > hidraw driver.
> >
> > The source and an example can be found on
> >
> > https://github.com/dl1ksv/gr-fcdproplus.git
> >
> > Comments are welcome.
> > Enjoy it
>
> Hi Volker,
>
> Nice work.

Agreed, Very appreciated work as well.

> I would recommend letting the user specify the device string and only
> use auto-detection if string is empty.

I agree here, but would also add one more request. Specify the
frequency in Hz, kHz is a pain to convert in the head, and Hz can be
bad enough by itself!

(You would not believe the number of times my flowgraphs have ended up
on 1.4GHz rather than 144MHz...)

Other similar blocks (eg UHD, FCD) also specify in Hz, and it would be
good to have compatibility, if only to let me switch between inputs
with a selector block, and not needing a /1000 variable in there as
well :)


73s

Iain