Re: GNU Radio on Raspberry Pi 4?

[Kristoff]

HI all,

I also have a RPi4 (*).
Some follow-up question.

What OS would be the best for this?
Would running 64 bit make a difference?

I don't know to what degree this is related, but I did a test running 
WebGL (**) on that pi, and I got about 1/3 of the frames per second on 
my RPi4 compared to my laptop (which only has a UHD Graphics 630 Mobile, 
so not the  best or latest neither)
Is the GPU in the Pi4 good enough to run many GUI elements in GNU Radio 
at the same time?


Kr.


(*) RPi4B 8 GB, 120 SSD

(*) https://webglsamples.org/


On 16/12/2020 11:10 p.m., Dan Romanchik KB6NU wrote:
> Has anyone successfully run GNU Radio on a Pi 4? I recently purchased 
> an RTL-SDR dongle and thought it would be fun to experiment a little 
> with GNU Radio and learn something about SDR.
>
> A couple of days ago, I fired up GNU Radio, and after having some 
> trouble figuring out how to get the audio sink to talk to the Pi, I 
> downloaded VE6EY's FM receiver flow graph. The flow graph runs, but 
> the Pi 4 just doesn't seem to have enough horsepower to run it in real 
> time. The audio is slow and distorted.
>
> Thinking that it might be the WX widgets slowing down the program, I 
> first deleted the FFT display widgets, then converted the WX slider 
> controls to QT range controls. Neither had any effect on how well the 
> flow graph ran.
>
> GQRX and CubicSDDR seem to work just fine. At least with both of them, 
> I'm able to receive FM broadcast and NOAA weather station. But, maybe 
> the PI4 just doesn't have enough horsepower to run GNU Radio? If so, 
> that's kind of disappointing.
>
> 73! <—ham radio lingo for “best regards"
>
> *Dan KB6NU*
> CW Geek, Ham Radio Instructor
> Author of the "No Nonsense" amateur radio license study guides
> Read my ham radio blog at http://www.kb6nu.com