After waiting 8 months I finally received my LimeNet micro. I would like to use the board as a remote Ham tranceiver, but first would like to test peripheral equipment through GNU radio.
Having a fresh Raspbian image installed I tried to get the software installed following the described install procedure to the letter, but get very confused.
So far it refers me to link after link after link after link. I get totally confused. It looks like I need SoapySDR, but also refers to a PPA (=Ubuntu) method.
Isn’t there a better description of what to use and how to install it?
I have even tried to use the PiSDR image but this gave also no success, also lack of proper documentation. There is a lot of software in the image but it is not clear how to use it. I had GNURadio installed but this did not connect the LimeNet micro. Now I am back to the original Rasbian Lite version.
If you want to use GNU Radio, it is recommended to use the gr-limesdr source/sink blocks.
Examples are included in the repo.
It wouldn’t make sense to distribute documentation with PiSDR that explained how to use all the software it packages, when those software projects will have their own documentation and development/support communities. The best place to look for such resources is those upstream projects.
Works fine for me. Built it and Soapy etc. from source on Ubuntu 18.04. Raspbian running on the LimeNET Micro and if I first start SoapySDRServer on this, then run up SDRangel on my laptop, it automatically finds the SDR via mDNS.
Yes, on my side SDR is visible over the NET also on Ubuntu 18.04
Works great on Cubic and SdrGlut, can get up to 800 kHz bandwith.
Just must test TX on SdrGlut at the moment my RX system is still
on upcoverted high 10,7 IF from ICOM PCR1000.
It is visible on SDRangel too, just Angel crashing on start. The same instalation
of Angel is able to run Lime USB and LimeNET micro locally over USB.
Does just SDRangel on the client system crash, or does SoapySDRServer also crash on the LimeNET Micro? I had the latter happen and the server process would segfault when using the turnkey PiSDR image. Rebuilding SoapySDR and SoapyRemote fixed this.
Thanks for the help. Seems that this did the trick. SoapySDR Util --find shows it over the network.
Have not been able to see it in SDRangel.
I will do a fresh install SDRangel on my desktop and hope that will solve the connectivity problem.
ConnectionFX3 = LimeSDR USB support.
ConnectionFTDI = LimeSDR Mini support.
So Lime Suite would support the SDR hardware directly.
SoapySDRLMS7 = support for using the SDR via SoapySDR.
Hence it’s not finding your SoapySDR installation. If you installed this via packages, you would need to have libsoapysdr-dev installed for Lime Suite to build the SoapySDRLMS7 module for it. If you built SoapySDR from source and it’s installed to /usr/local/, then it should find it.