Re: Pi GNURadion challenge.

[Glen Langston]

Hi

Yes. 3.8.1 is the version I’d started to install.   I ran into trouble
downloading all the support packages.  Slowly but surely I was
installing everything needed.  But after a few hours of good progress
I ran out of time.    So I thought I’d just ask if someone more talented
had already done the install before I put more time into the install.

Definitely, for me, a complete install of the OS is the best, rather than
on a package by package basis.   Remember to compress (and remove all gmail
etc logins) before distributing.

It is fairly quick to do the whole install to the SD card, from the 
compressed .img file.   With “Etcher” they uncompress and write simultaneously,
so you are only working with a couple gigabyte file.   

I have 4 working horn radio telescopes working this way and a few more almost
ready to start observing.  I thought I would get up to date with the
3.8.? Gnuradio then restart observations.

Maybe I have to wait.

Thanks in advance.

Glen

> On Mar 9, 2020, at 1:05 PM, Chris Vine <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 10:59:04 -0400
> Glen Langston <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Thanks for your summary of experience with installing Gnuradio 3.8.1 for 
>> Raspberry Pi.
>> 
>> I’ve started the install on a fresh version on the latest Raspberry Pi OS,
>> but ran into a few issues I’m still working on.
>> 
>> One question/request for this group:
>> 
>> The folks at SDRPlay have done a very nice job of porting a good working 
>> version of
>> gnuradio into a working image of the Raspberry OS and compressed it.
>> (https://www.sdrplay.com/downloads/)
>> 
>> After downloading (about 2GB) and writing to the SD card, this version just 
>> works fine.
>> The simple-minded user can then just start enjoying Gnuradio.
>> 
>> However they don’t yet have Gnuradio 3.8.1 on the SD card.
> 
> As far as I can tell there is no gnuradio-3.8.1.  Where did you find it?
> I can see a first release candidate as of some weeks ago, which of
> course is something different.
>