So once it arrived, everything worked. I played around with Universal Radio Hacker and stuff.
Due to lack of time, it ended up in a locker after a couple of days.
Until today that is, which is when I pulled it out just to see that:
Universal Radio Hacker wouldn’t be able to use it (Raspberry Pi 3):
LimeSDR-OPEN (LimeSDR Mini, media=USB 3, module=FT601, serial=1D5881B332D4B1, index=0): Success
LimeSDR-INIT: Error Code: -1 (-1)
LimeSDR: failed to start rx mode
Thought maybe was something wrong with Rasp… USB 2.0 instead of 3.0 …maybe voltage too low and stuff… so I bought an USB HUB, which was supposed to give it more joice… nothing… same…
So I plugged it into a Windows 10 box. Same.
Run tests:
[ TESTING STARTED ]
->Start time: Wed May 4 13:27:50 2022
->LimeSuite version: 20.10.0-g1480bfea
->Device: LimeSDR Mini, media=USB 3, module=FT601, serial=1D5881B332D4B1, index=0, HW=3, GW=1.30
Serial Number: 1D5881B332D4B1
Chip temperature: 45 C
[ Clock Network Test ]
->REF clock test
Test results: 22116; 35313; 48510 - PASSED
->VCTCXO test
Results : 6711085 (min); 6711238 (max) - PASSED
->Clock Network Test PASSED
[ FPGA EEPROM Test ]
->Read EEPROM
->Read data: 13 0A 15 13 0A 15 02
->FPGA EEPROM Test PASSED
[ LMS7002M Test ]
->Perform Registers Test
->External Reset line test
Reg 0x20: Write value 0xFFFD, Read value 0xFFFD
Reg 0x20: value after reset 0x0FFFF
->LMS7002M Test PASSED
[ RF Loopback Test ]
->Configure LMS
TuneVCO(CGEN) - failed to lock (cmphl!=0)
SetFrequencyCGEN(61.44 MHz) failed
TuneVCO(CGEN) - failed to lock (cmphl!=0)
SetFrequencyCGEN(122.88 MHz) failed
Failed to set sample rate
->RF Loopback Test FAILED
=> Board tests FAILED <=
Elapsed time: 3.02 seconds
which is when I started to become worried… but come on… I said to myself…it must be something with firmware… maybe… right?
Flashed it like 3 times…not with --update but explicitly providing bin files… nothing.
Looks dead.
Ideas?