LimeSDR is working with GNURadio 3.8

[Christophe Seguinot]

Hi

Here are the steps I used to get a working LimeSDR under GNURadio 3.8 installed from PPA (Ubuntu 18.04). Since hardware SDR tools are rapidly evolving this procedure may be outdated soon!)

Lime SDR needs

• Lime Suite which can be obtained from PPA
• gr-limesdr which is not available in PPA (as of January 31th 2020)
  

The Limesuite has been recently updated in ppa, see installing instruction here: http://wiki.myriadrf.org/Lime_Suite

• sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install limesuite liblimesuite-dev limesuite-udev limesuite-images
• sudo apt-get install soapysdr-tools soapysdr-module-lms7

Use LimeQuickTest to see if your stick is recognized.

The gr-limesdr has been recently modified (under several GitHub repository). The official MyriadRF GitHub now has a working gr-limeSDR that must be installed from source (I didn't find any working debian package):

• git clone https://github.com/myriadrf/gr-limesdr.git
• cd gr-limesdr/
  
• git checkout gr-3.8
  
• mkdir build
  
• cd build
  
• cmake ../
  
• make
  
• sudo make install
  
• sudo ldconfig
  

This has been tested on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install. My LimeSDR Mini was working under GNURadio at the first try, without any other configuration.

Regards, Christophe