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CaribouLite turns any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR
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RPi 4B 4GB first time #182

Open ajkoren1959 opened 10 months ago

ajkoren1959 commented 10 months ago

My setup:

My issue: sdrpp doesn't receive signals. A quick search found that SoapySDRUtil also shows errors. Please see "shm_open: No such file or directory" and following errors below:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/projects/cariboulite$ sudo SoapySDRUtil --probe [sudo] password for ubuntu: ######################################################

Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library

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

Probe device [INFO] SoapyCaribouliteSession, sessionCount: 0 02-02 18:48:22.334 4482 4482 I CARIBOU_PROG caribou_prog_configure_from_buffer@caribou_prog.c:260 Sending bitstream of size 32220 02-02 18:48:23.893 4482 4482 I CARIBOU_PROG caribou_prog_configure_from_buffer@caribou_prog.c:292 FPGA programming - Success!

Printing 'findCariboulite' Request: shm_open: No such file or directory [ERROR] sdrplay_api_Open() Error: sdrplay_api_Fail [ERROR] Please check the sdrplay_api service to make sure it is up. If it is up, please restart it. [INFO] [UHD] linux; GNU C++ version 11.3.0; Boost_107400; UHD_4.1.0.5-0-unknown [ERROR] SoapySDR::Device::enumerate(sdrplay) sdrplay_api_Open() failed [INFO] Initializing DeviceID: 0, Label: CaribouLite S1G[66b1825c], ChannelType: S1G [INFO] Creating SampleQueue MTU: 131072 I/Q samples (524288 bytes)

Also, it might be unrelated, but it's suspicious: I seem to be running out of space in the root partition (96% full): ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 380M 3.5M 376M 1% /run /dev/mmcblk0p2 15G 14G 630M 96% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock /dev/mmcblk0p1 253M 193M 60M 77% /boot/firmware tmpfs 380M 104K 379M 1% /run/user/1000

Any help with either issue will be greatly appreciated.

ajkoren1959 commented 9 months ago

I ran install.sh again (on a fresh DragonOS). This time I noticed earlier errors:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/projects/cariboulite$ ./install.sh > install.txt
[sudo] password for ubuntu: 
E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel-headers
E: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel-headers
warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel
  The kernel was built by: aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.2.0-4ubuntu3) 13.2.0
  You are using:           gcc-13 (Ubuntu 13.1.0-8ubuntu1~22.04) 13.1.0
[INFO] SoapyCaribouliteSession, sessionCount: 0
Opening rpi in /dev/gpiomem: Permission denied
[INFO] SoapyCaribouliteSession, sessionCount: 0
Opening rpi in /dev/gpiomem: Permission denied

Is this the easiest thing to do to start from Raspberry Pi OS rather than from DragonOS?

ImDroided commented 9 months ago

Ok first things first get a bigger sd card lol. 16gb is nothing with updates and such. I'd do 64gb min

I have a writeup at https://radiomenace.com/2023/03/20/getting-cariboulite-working-in-dragonos-on-a-raspberry-pi/ but you still need to edit the THIS_MODULE thing.

This is what your config.txt should look like. 

[all]
# Enable the audio output, I2C and SPI interfaces on the GPIO header. As these
# parameters related to the base device-tree they must appear *before* any
# other dtoverlay= specification
dtparam=audio=on
dtparam=i2c_arm=off
dtparam=spi=off
dtparam=i2c_vc=on
dtoverlay=spi1-3cs

I would get rid of all that entire section and try this. if this works then add back one by one to see what breaks it.

next do

sudo usermod -a -G root,dialout ubuntu

Edit /etc/rc.local and directly above the ‘exit 0’ line, insert a new line with this: chmod g+rw /dev/gpiomem

then reboot with

sudo reboot

You can run chmod g+rw /dev/gpiomem in a terminal and rerun your software and it should work as you are getting

[INFO] SoapyCaribouliteSession, sessionCount: 0 Opening rpi in /dev/gpiomem: Permission denied

You will need to edit rc.local as per above because it resets the permissions on gpiomem on boot for some reason.

Hope this helps let me know.

ajkoren1959 commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the advice, ImDroided.

Bigger SD Card: Right on! :-) config.txt file: That's my file too. I'm back to using DragonOS. Raspberry Pi OS requires installation of SoapySDR which comes with Dragon, but otherwise, since I got errors the move didn't help.

I implemented your other tips:

  1. sudo usermod -a -G root,dialout ubuntu

  2. Edit /etc/rc.local and directly above the ‘exit 0’ line, insert a new line with this: chmod g+rw /dev/gpiomem

After reboot, I got: `ubuntu@ubuntu:~/projects/cariboulite$ sudo SoapySDRUtil --find ######################################################

Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library

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

[INFO] SoapyCaribouliteSession, sessionCount: 0 02-07 19:45:35.995 31274 31274 I FPGA caribou_fpga_program_to_fpga@caribou_fpga.c:209 FPGA already operational - not programming (use 'force_prog=true' to force update)
02-07 19:45:35.995 31274 31274 E CARIBOU_SMI caribou_smi_init@caribou_smi.c:539 couldn't open smi driver file '/dev/smi' (No such file or directory)
02-07 19:45:35.995 31274 31274 E CARIBOULITE Setup cariboulite_init_submodules@cariboulite_setup.c:288 Error setting up smi submodule
02-07 19:45:35.997 31274 31274 I CARIBOU_PROG caribou_prog_release@caribou_prog.c:122 device release completed
02-07 19:45:35.997 31274 31274 E FPGA caribou_fpga_close@caribou_fpga.c:246 caribou_fpga_close: dev not initialized
[ERROR] cariboulite_init_driver() failed

and: ubuntu@ubuntu:~/projects/cariboulite$ sudo SoapySDRUtil --probe ######################################################

Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library

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

Probe device [INFO] SoapyCaribouliteSession, sessionCount: 0 02-07 20:37:36.856 99227 99227 I FPGA caribou_fpga_program_to_fpga@caribou_fpga.c:209 FPGA already operational - not programming (use 'force_prog=true' to force update)
02-07 20:37:36.857 99227 99227 E CARIBOU_SMI caribou_smi_init@caribou_smi.c:539 couldn't open smi driver file '/dev/smi' (No such file or directory)
02-07 20:37:36.857 99227 99227 E CARIBOULITE Setup cariboulite_init_submodules@cariboulite_setup.c:288 Error setting up smi submodule

I see in your write-up that you used RPi 3, not 4. Is there a compatibility issue with RPi 4?

ImDroided commented 9 months ago

looks like your stuck where I am now. I have a 4 I dont know where I put I had a 3. check @unixpunk responce and see if that helps. https://github.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite/issues/185

ajkoren1959 commented 9 months ago

@ImDroided, In your writeup you say it's a RPi 3. Your pic of the RPi also matches a 3, not a 4, in my opinion.

ImDroided commented 9 months ago

@ImDroided, In your writeup you say it's a RPi 3. Your pic of the RPi also matches a 3, not a 4, in my opinion.

Ah yes I remember that now lol the 3 wasn't fast enough and got switched for a 4 almost instantly. I did a fresh install following my writeup and editing the smi stream file the line of code has moved down a few lines as someone added to the file but didnt fix that. I can run CubicSDR but gqrx still has mem access error

ajkoren1959 commented 9 months ago

I have a partial solution. It turns out that the solution to this:

shm_open: No such file or directory
[ERROR] sdrplay_api_Open() Error: sdrplay_api_Fail

is to run the corresponding service: sudo systemctl start sdrplay

Who knew? ;-) Now, sudo SoapySDRUtil --find doesn't return errors,. Also, sudo sdrpp seems to work. However, it doesn't receive any real stations., only static noise at the selected carrier frequency. I run it (and listen) at 98-102 MHz, where I should see multiple FM radio stations...

ajkoren1959 commented 9 months ago

I'll document a bit more, for the benefit of anyone else who might have the same issues:

ajkoren1959 commented 9 months ago

I'll answer my own question again: