Without claiming the in-depth knowledge or the quality of Marcus' scheduler presentation, I just happened to have recorded the first introductory tutorial for 2021 European GNU Radio Days at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xF_eQoSGA
Not sure if it will answer "please direct me to the documentation where the basic principle of how GNU Radio works is explained" ... 0-MQ and streaming will be next but not (yet) recorded. Any feedback/comments welcome of course for improving the material. JM -- JM Friedt, FEMTO-ST Time & Frequency, 26 rue de l'Epitaphe, 25000 Besancon, France April 4, 2021 3:13 PM, "Marcus D. Leech" <patchvonbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/04/2021 03:53 AM, Ralf Gorholt wrote: > >> Hi Marcus, >> >> as I have written, I have tried to use a UDP source (and to connect it >> to a UDP sink with a different IP address and port) but it does not seem >> to work. As I am quite new to GNU radio, I have certainly made a mistake >> somewhere. If I only needed a TS source (no matter which one) I could >> stick with a file. I have already done that and it worked. >> >> Could somebody please direct me to the documentation where the basic >> principle of how GNU Radio works is explained? I know that there are >> blocks that you can connect together but there must be a "controller" >> somewhere and I would like to understand how this controller works and >> how the blocks are called. What I have read until now does not answer my >> questions :-) >> >> Happy Easter, >> >> Ralf > > The "controller" that you're talking about in Gnu Radio is called the > "scheduler". > > Here's a talk by Marcus Mueller on the subject: > > http://jmfriedt.org/slides_gnuradiodays2019/18h00 MM GR scheduler.pdf > > But I'd also suggest spending time at the gnuradio.org website in the > documentation and tutorials > section. But also, there's the source > code.