LimeSdr SoapySDR 0.7 device not found

Projects LimeSDR
1

Hi,

I just received my LimeSdr, and so far I wasn’t able to use it as intended through GNURADIO.

I followed these steps to install the packages on a new Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt install python-pip
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip install pybombs
pybombs recipes add gr-recipes git+https://github.com/gnuradio/gr-recipes.git
mkdir prefix/
pybombs prefix init -a default prefix/default/ -R gnuradio-default
pybombs install gr-osmosdr
cd prefix/default
source ./setup_env.sh
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install limesuite liblimesuite-dev limesuite-udev limesuite-images
LimeUtil --find
gnuradio-companion

LimeUtil --update

when I type
“LimeUtil –find” On terminal
I get : [LimeSDR-USB, media=USB 3.0, module=FX3, addr=1d50:6108, serial=0009070105C52E12]

but with:
“SoapySDRUtil –info”

I get
Lib Version: v0.7.0-g824d83e8
API Version: v0.7.0
ABI Version: v0.7
Install root: /usr/local
Search path: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.7
No modules found!
Available factories… No factories found!
Available converters…

  • CF32 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
  • CS16 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
  • CS32 -> [CS32]
  • CS8 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
  • CU16 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8]
  • CU8 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8]
  • F32 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
  • S16 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
  • S32 -> [S32]
  • S8 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
  • U16 -> [F32, S16, S8]
  • U8 -> [F32, S16, S8]

So it seems that the SoapySDR_0.7 is not recognizing my board

I’ve read somewhere that this might be an issue due to the incompatibility with the SoapySDR_0.7 version?

Any Helps??

2

what is returned by:
SoapySDRUtil --find=“driver=lime”

EDIT: just reading what you did - You compiled and installed from source gnuradio companion (which knew nothing about the limesdr because there was no support installed) and then after that you installed the binaries for the limesdr. But at that stage the binaries for gnuradio had already been compiled with no support.

You could probably do something like the following:
sudo apt-get remove limesuite liblimesuite-dev limesuite-udev limesuite-images
pybombs install limesuite

Then pybombs would see that the dependencies were wrong and update everything that required to be updated.

3

@mzs

Thanks for the reply
SoapySDRUtil --find=“driver=lime”
returns:

######################################################

Soapy SDR – the SDR abstraction library

######################################################

No devices found!

4

I finally got it working properly…The error was that each time that I re-installed Ubuntu, I did not check the box to format the assigned partitions…so many previously installed libraries were recovered after installation…meaning that after limesuite and gnuradio installation the linking was not performed adequately with soapy