search

gnieboer / GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts

A series of Powershell scripts to automatically download, build from source, and install GNURadio and -all- it's dependencies as 64-bit native binaries then package as an msi using Visual Studio 2015
GNU General Public License v3.0
89 stars 32 forks source link

Can device "sdrplay" be added to Win64 Binary 3.7.11 #21

Closed Ronkpa closed 3 years ago

Ronkpa commented 7 years ago

It seems the "sdrplay" RSP2 device is not supported by osmocon source or the rtl-sdr source in the Win64 Binary version 3.7.11 of GNURadio. Can it be added ? Can I do it? Can you give me any guidance to get me started? I downloaded the scripts but have not tried to do anything with them yet. Thanks.

Error: gr-osmosdr ae686c46 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.11 built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd hackrf bladerf airspy redpitaya FATAL: No supported devices found to pick from.

gnieboer commented 7 years ago

Ronkpa,

I would love to help, but this issue has come up before. The problem is that SDRplay's driver's are not open source compatible, so legally they cannot be incorporated into the GNURadio installer.

I would recommend contacting the vendor and asking them to open source their driver, it's the only way it will get changed.

Can you do it?? Well that depends on you :)... how good are your coding/scripting skills?

While an installer with SDRPlay can't be distributed, you CAN build the osmosdr driver yourself on your PC.

The easy part is the change to get the driver's to build the SDRPlay, the instructions are on their (osmosdr)'s website. The challenge will then be building the osmosdr driver's again. I strongly do NOT recommend trying to rebuild the whole GNURadio installer from scratch, that's a huge pain that frankly is best left for me to deal with. Having said that, you could extract just the script for gr-osmosdr and try to build that. The section you are looking for is in "Step8", scroll down until you find that hunk of code. It's really all about setting up the right cmake and compiler command line options.

If you are comfortable with scripting and command line compiling, you should be able to take that part of the script out, set the required variables, and give it a try. I think all the key headers and library files should all be there in /lib /include in your installation directory. You'll have to add the SDRPlay lib and dll to /lib and /bin respectively of course, and CMAKE may want some guidance as to where the libraries are. Most importantly, you'll want to change the "CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH" to be your GNURadio installation directory (C:/Program Files/GNURadio-3.7 or whatever) and that should help find most of the files. Run the script a bit at a time and see what happens. You'll need to change permissions for the install directory most likely or run everything as admin.

Obviously you'll need cmake and MSVC 2015 installed, that goes without saying.

I hope this is enough to get you started. I'm willing to help a bit, but frankly only a bit because I don't see any reason why the SDRplay drivers couldn't be open sourced by the vendor. As you can see, GNURadio is compatible with nearly every other radio out there, because nearly everyone has open sourced their drivers. I doubt SDRPlay as any "secret sauce" in their driver that gives them an advantage, so I don't really understand why they've life difficult.

Geof

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Ronkpa notifications@github.com wrote:

It seems the "sdrplay" RSP2 device is not supported by osmocon source or the rtl-sdr source in the Win64 Binary version 3.7.11 of GNURadio. Can it be added ? Can I do it? Can you give me any guidance to get me started? I downloaded the scripts but have not tried to do anything with them yet. Thanks.

Error: gr-osmosdr ae686c46 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.11 built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd hackrf bladerf airspy redpitaya FATAL: No supported devices found to pick from.

— You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/gnieboer/GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts/issues/21, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADEradOUch-RJfard9woU5Pi1yB7g5mDks5ruu9ugaJpZM4M5kQ8 .

Ronkpa commented 7 years ago

Geoff, first, thanks so much for making the GNURadio Win64 binary, it allowed me to get GRC up and running in very little time. And thanks again for this email to get me started to add the sdrplay driver.

I have alot of experience coding, and am relatively comfortable with MSVC 2015 IDE, ​ and have used command line compilers and linkers in the past,​ but no experience with ​MSVC scripts or their command line ​ processes.​

​I notice Al Williams (Hackaday) did a Youtube video, GNU Radio Companion, Part 2

wherein he shows an Osmocom Source using sdrplay. I wonder how he got it to work.​

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GGBFBWFfU​

I'll let you know if I ever get sdrplay working with GRC on Windows.

Thanks, again. Ron

On Apr 11, 2017 8:20 AM, "Geof Nieboer" notifications@github.com wrote:

Ronkpa,

I would love to help, but this issue has come up before. The problem is that SDRplay's driver's are not open source compatible, so legally they cannot be incorporated into the GNURadio installer.

I would recommend contacting the vendor and asking them to open source their driver, it's the only way it will get changed.

Can you do it?? Well that depends on you :)... how good are your coding/scripting skills?

While an installer with SDRPlay can't be distributed, you CAN build the osmosdr driver yourself on your PC.

The easy part is the change to get the driver's to build the SDRPlay, the instructions are on their (osmosdr)'s website. The challenge will then be building the osmosdr driver's again. I strongly do NOT recommend trying to rebuild the whole GNURadio installer from scratch, that's a huge pain that frankly is best left for me to deal with. Having said that, you could extract just the script for gr-osmosdr and try to build that. The section you are looking for is in "Step8", scroll down until you find that hunk of code. It's really all about setting up the right cmake and compiler command line options.

If you are comfortable with scripting and command line compiling, you should be able to take that part of the script out, set the required variables, and give it a try. I think all the key headers and library files should all be there in /lib /include in your installation directory. You'll have to add the SDRPlay lib and dll to /lib and /bin respectively of course, and CMAKE may want some guidance as to where the libraries are. Most importantly, you'll want to change the "CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH" to be your GNURadio installation directory (C:/Program Files/GNURadio-3.7 or whatever) and that should help find most of the files. Run the script a bit at a time and see what happens. You'll need to change permissions for the install directory most likely or run everything as admin.

Obviously you'll need cmake and MSVC 2015 installed, that goes without saying.

I hope this is enough to get you started. I'm willing to help a bit, but frankly only a bit because I don't see any reason why the SDRplay drivers couldn't be open sourced by the vendor. As you can see, GNURadio is compatible with nearly every other radio out there, because nearly everyone has open sourced their drivers. I doubt SDRPlay as any "secret sauce" in their driver that gives them an advantage, so I don't really understand why they've life difficult.

Geof

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Ronkpa notifications@github.com wrote:

It seems the "sdrplay" RSP2 device is not supported by osmocon source or the rtl-sdr source in the Win64 Binary version 3.7.11 of GNURadio. Can it be added ? Can I do it? Can you give me any guidance to get me started? I downloaded the scripts but have not tried to do anything with them yet. Thanks.

Error: gr-osmosdr ae686c46 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.11 built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd hackrf bladerf airspy redpitaya FATAL: No supported devices found to pick from.

— You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/gnieboer/GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts/issues/21, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ ADEradOUch-RJfard9woU5Pi1yB7g5mDks5ruu9ugaJpZM4M5kQ8 .

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/gnieboer/GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts/issues/21#issuecomment-293242861, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJtElcA_zEuZmfhCJyh9La5mVFuxW2K-ks5ru3ADgaJpZM4M5kQ8 .

Ronkpa commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your help, Geof. But I'm sorry I haven't been able to put all the pieces together. I tried building osmocom myself, but I get error after error and don't even understand them. I still cannot get my SDRPlay RSP2 working as a osmocom source in GNURadio Companion on Windows.

I contacted SDRPlay support, but I can't get it across to them. Here is the thread. I wish I knew what to do.

I cannot figure out how to get Osmocom Source to recognize sdrplay as a valid device in GNURadio Companion 3.7.11 (GRC) on Windows. See Youtube video by Hackaday (Al Williams) GNU Radio Companion, Part 2. He seems to have gotten it to work. I downloaded my GNURadio Win64 Binaries from http://www.gcndevelopment.com/gnuradio/

My Error: gr-osmosdr ae686c46 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.11 built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd hackrf bladerf airspy redpitaya FATAL: No supported devices found to pick from.

My RSP2 works fine with SDRuno and HDSDR.

Can you help? Do you have another GNURadio Companion Source that will work with my sdrplay RSP2?

Thanks. Ron Krahe

Out of the box I don't believe gr-osmosdr will support the RSP. It will need to be built from source. However it should support SoapySDR - SoapySDR supports the RSP, so you should be able to place sources for SoapySDR.

If you are getting binaries you will need to check that they have been built with SoapySDR or SDRplay support.

An alternative to Gnu Radio is Pothosware (http://pothosware.com) which will definitely support SoapySDR (written by the same author) and will therefore support the RSP.

Best regards, SDRplay Support

Dear Support, could you please make the RSP2 drivers open source so they could be legally included with the GNURadio distribution? Thanks. Ron Krahe

I'm not sure how including the API and hardware drivers within the gr-osmosdr distribution would help. They are available on all major platforms and many applications use them directly including SoapySDRPlay for example.

Once I have my next few tasks done I will be documenting the gr-osmosdr / Gnu Radio / Pothosware flow. There are working solutions out there that our customers have told us about. I will pull all the information together and put a definitive guide together.

Best regards, SDRplay Support

Thank you for your reply. I'm afraid I'm not smart enough to understand it, though. I think that if you make the RSP2 drivers open source, then the man who built my binary could legally include mydrivers for my RSP2 in his build.

I installed the latest windows binary of GNURadio and it does not contain support for my RSP2. I don't know how to build GNURadio from source myself so I depend on others who do. The man who created the binary I installed told me that the RSP2 drivers are not open source so he is not allowed to include them in his build. If there is some other way to get GNURadio to work with my RSP2 I will try it, please let me know.

The long and short of it is this: can you please tell me how I can get my RSP2 to work with GNURadio? If that is the information you plan to pull together when you have time GREAT! I'll patiently wait for it. Thanks, again . Ron Krahe

The drivers/API don't need to be in the distribution - as long as they are installed on the machine then it's very easy to locate them via the registry. This is what a number of developers currently do. SDR-J (which is open source) does this for example without any problems on multiple platforms.

We will be documenting the Gnu Radio flow but I need to complete a couple of other tasks first before I can get to it.

Best regards, SDRplay Support

Geof,

These answers are all gibberish to me. I'm hoping they make sense to you.

Can you help me "locate the drivers via the registry" and use them with the GNURadio Companion Windows binary you built and I downloaded and installed? Apparently it's very easy, but I don't understand and I don't know what to do.

Thanks Ron

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Geof Nieboer notifications@github.com wrote:

Ronkpa,

I would love to help, but this issue has come up before. The problem is that SDRplay's driver's are not open source compatible, so legally they cannot be incorporated into the GNURadio installer.

I would recommend contacting the vendor and asking them to open source their driver, it's the only way it will get changed.

Can you do it?? Well that depends on you :)... how good are your coding/scripting skills?

While an installer with SDRPlay can't be distributed, you CAN build the osmosdr driver yourself on your PC.

The easy part is the change to get the driver's to build the SDRPlay, the instructions are on their (osmosdr)'s website. The challenge will then be building the osmosdr driver's again. I strongly do NOT recommend trying to rebuild the whole GNURadio installer from scratch, that's a huge pain that frankly is best left for me to deal with. Having said that, you could extract just the script for gr-osmosdr and try to build that. The section you are looking for is in "Step8", scroll down until you find that hunk of code. It's really all about setting up the right cmake and compiler command line options.

If you are comfortable with scripting and command line compiling, you should be able to take that part of the script out, set the required variables, and give it a try. I think all the key headers and library files should all be there in /lib /include in your installation directory. You'll have to add the SDRPlay lib and dll to /lib and /bin respectively of course, and CMAKE may want some guidance as to where the libraries are. Most importantly, you'll want to change the "CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH" to be your GNURadio installation directory (C:/Program Files/GNURadio-3.7 or whatever) and that should help find most of the files. Run the script a bit at a time and see what happens. You'll need to change permissions for the install directory most likely or run everything as admin.

Obviously you'll need cmake and MSVC 2015 installed, that goes without saying.

I hope this is enough to get you started. I'm willing to help a bit, but frankly only a bit because I don't see any reason why the SDRplay drivers couldn't be open sourced by the vendor. As you can see, GNURadio is compatible with nearly every other radio out there, because nearly everyone has open sourced their drivers. I doubt SDRPlay as any "secret sauce" in their driver that gives them an advantage, so I don't really understand why they've life difficult.

Geof

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Ronkpa notifications@github.com wrote:

It seems the "sdrplay" RSP2 device is not supported by osmocon source or the rtl-sdr source in the Win64 Binary version 3.7.11 of GNURadio. Can it be added ? Can I do it? Can you give me any guidance to get me started? I downloaded the scripts but have not tried to do anything with them yet. Thanks.

Error: gr-osmosdr ae686c46 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.11 built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd hackrf bladerf airspy redpitaya FATAL: No supported devices found to pick from.

— You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/gnieboer/GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts/issues/21, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADEradOUch- RJfard9woU5Pi1yB7g5mDks5ruu9ugaJpZM4M5kQ8 .

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/gnieboer/GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts/issues/21#issuecomment-293242861, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJtElcA_zEuZmfhCJyh9La5mVFuxW2K-ks5ru3ADgaJpZM4M5kQ8 .

cql1983 commented 5 years ago

https://gitlab.com/HB9FXQ/gr-sdrplay HB9FXQ write gr-sdrplay, on linux gnuradio work fine.

cql1983 commented 4 years ago

I recompile gnuradio with gr-osmosdr,use sdrplay download api,success drive my sdrplay 1a.

gnieboer commented 3 years ago

So SDRPlay is distributing from their site a zip file which include the GPLv3 licensed GNURadio installer built from this site packaged with their mir_sdr_api.dll binary driver, which is a closed source driver.
GPL requires closed source code to be distributed separately from open source.

This issue is being closed as this is a violation of the GPL and could result in legal action.

Ronkpa commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the information. I don't really understand what you're saying, that this issue could be a violation of the GPL.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:33 PM Geof Nieboer notifications@github.com wrote:

So SDRPlay is distributing from their site a zip file which include the GPLv3 licensed GNURadio installer built from this site packaged with their mir_sdr_api.dll binary driver, which is a closed source driver. GPL requires closed source code to be distributed separately from open source.

This issue is being closed as this is a violation of the GPL and could result in legal action.

— You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/gnieboer/GNURadio_Windows_Build_Scripts/issues/21#issuecomment-764026289, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACNUJFJAPKYC56AQ3DEZ6TLS25R3FANCNFSM4DHGIQ6A .

gnieboer commented 3 years ago

Unless you are an employee of SDRPlay, you don't need to worry about it. The violation problem is on their end with how they are distributing their driver along with GNURadio.