[Discuss-gnuradio] Funcube Dongle Broken in GUN Radio?

[Sean Sharkey]

Morning Everyone.

I’m having trouble getting the original Funcube Dongle recognised in GNU Radio and GNU Radio Companion.

For example when I run Companion and try to select FCD as the source I get an error saying that the “Port is not connected.”

My computer recognises the FCD and any number of other programs work just fine so the problem would appear to be isolated to GNU Radio.

The following post from the GQRX group suggests that a bug may have been introduced when the original FCD code was incorporated into GNU Radio about 2 years ago.

Apparently there might be a problem with the hidmac.c file located at gnuradio/gr-fcd/lib/hid/hidmac.c

See this post for details https://github.com/csete/gqrx/issues/358

"range.length is set to the len of buf we got by the caller of our function, instead of the length of the string we got from IOHIDDeviceGetProperty(). range.length

has to be the length of that source string, not that of the destination buffer.”

Might anyone be able to help?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Kind regards,

Sean.