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Issue running blocksat-rx on a Raspberry #31

Closed 634-5789 closed 5 years ago

634-5789 commented 5 years ago

Compiling and installing the binaries works fine. Running blocksat-rx or blocksat-rx-lower gives the following error

linux; GNU C++ version 6.2.0 20161010; Boost_106100; UHD_003.009.005-0-unknown

gr-osmosdr 0.1.4 (0.1.4) gnuradio 3.7.10
built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd miri hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy soapy redpitaya 
*** Error in `python': corrupted double-linked list: 0x01328cc8 ***
/usr/local/bin/blocksat-rx-lower: line 2: 20414 Aborted                 /usr/bin/env python /usr/local/lib/blocksat-rx/blocksat_rx_lower.pyc "$@"

Linux is a Raspbian Stretch Lite Linux 4.14.79-v7+ #1159 SMP Sun Nov 4 17:50:20 GMT 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

Is it possible to run blocksat on a Raspberry?

blockstreamsatellite commented 5 years ago

Hello @philipp634 .

This is something that we've seen before. It is not related to blocksat specifically. It seems to be either an issue with hardware (CPU/memory) limitations of Raspberry Pi for running the receiver or related to gr-osmosdr. See for example this thread.

As of today, we are not aware of any functional blocksat receiver setups that use Raspberry Pi. If you get it to work, please let us know.

634-5789 commented 5 years ago

Hello, thanks for the quick answer.

It seems like I have to look into a more powerful single-board computer like ODROID or similar in order to have a slim setup on the rooftop and getting the data in via WI-FI.

blockstreamsatellite commented 5 years ago

Hello @philipp634 ,

Just so you know, the latest release (v1.4.0) is confirmed to work on Raspberry Pi 3 B+. Have a look at the instructions in the README page if interested.

BR