Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

Paul Miller wrote: > I'm just trying to get my feet wet on the subject, so the $8 - $50 > pricetag is easier to swallow than $700-$1400. I'm assuming there's a > huge amount of limitations with the sr40 over the USRP, but it can be > used successfully. That's interesting. These are apples-to-or

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Chris Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really does not have it's own software. It's just that most softrock user > like to use the "rocky" software because it runs on Windows. You can't > really do much with Rocky because it is closed source, binary only.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Stan Slonkosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ramakrishnan, VU3RDD, in March 2006, said he had made a crude first >> version of a demodulator for the softrock. See >> http://www.zerobeat.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Frank Brickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If what you want is to get your fingers into the software, assemble your own > soft radios, you definitely, positively, absolutely want to use GNU Radio as > the software backend. That's one of the things it's for and it do

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Chris Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Many people are using other software with softrock hardware. However > I think most of that "other" software is Dttsp based rather then > gnuradio based. The > hardware is designed to be connected to a sound card and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

I really does not have it's own software. It's just that most softrock user like to use the "rocky" software because it runs on Windows. You can't really do much with Rocky because it is closed source, binary only. Many people are using other software with softrock hardware. However I think mos

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] alsa_sink busy

You might need to set your default ALSA device to be the virtual PulseAudio device. See for example Frank On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Dimitris Symeonidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I just noticed that, if listening to an

[Discuss-gnuradio] alsa_sink busy

I just noticed that, if listening to an mp3 while trying to run a gnuradio script that outputs audio, I get the error message: audio_alsa_sink[plughw:0,0]: Device or resource busy This appears both with ok_to_block=True and False… I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.1 Should it not be possible to do both? Any i

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP vs alternatives

Because of the very high cost of the USRP, I'm looking for alternatives. I found this gadget and I wondered if GNUradio is setup to use devices like this: http://www.amqrp.org/kits/softrock40/ It appears to have its own software, but I'd rather get it to work with gnuradio if it's possible to do