LimeSDR-USB experience with New Splits Solved!

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Sandi Suhendro djks74 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 08:20:17 UTC 2018


I tested using original firmware.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:53 AM Mychaela Falconia <
mychaela.falconia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sandi Suhendro <djks74 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Voice is working actually since back then, my fault is using only
> > C117/118 for test call all the time.
> > Now I just test using newer phone both Caller and Callee and voice is
> > work perfectly!
> > [...]
> > There is trace in wireshark when using old phone as C117/118, the BTS
> > always freeze and send Measurement Indication all the time when calling
> > is made and answered, but with newer phone, the Indication is normal.
>
> In your tests with C117/118 phones that produced failing results, were
> those phones running OsmocomBB or Motorola's original firmware?  If
> Motorola phones running their original firmware (which presumably had
> passed official certification and type approval tests back in the day)
> don't work with Osmocom networks (be it LimeSDR or other Osmocom-
> compatible BTS hardware, SDR-based or otherwise) but "newer" (meaning
> more proprietary and more thoroughly locked down) phones do work, then
> it is a very grave problem from the perspective of Freedom, and needs
> to be taken very seriously.
>
> Sysmocom has two of my FreeCalypso development boards, only one of
> which has been calibrated with a CMU200 instrument and fc-rfcal-tools
> before leaving my shop - the other board did not receive calibration
> because Harald claimed it early in the bring-up process, before I had
> climbed the calibration learning curve and developed my calibration
> programs.  Looking at the photo in issue #2704:
>
> https://osmocom.org/issues/2704
>
> The board you've got set up there is the one that did get properly
> calibrated before being sold to Sysmocom.  Like all boards from that
> batch, it was shipped with an official FreeCalypso firmware image in
> its flash - based on the date it was shipped, it was probably the
> 20170831 build.  Do you still have that firmware image in the flash,
> or have you erased it?  Where is the RF from that board connected to -
> does it go to a sysmoBTS unit?  Would it be possible for someone from
> Sysmocom (or someone from the community who have been set up with
> remote access to that board) to test and see if the FCDEV3B can
> successfully connect to Osmocom network using the official FreeCalypso
> firmware on the board, driven via AT commands?
>
> If Sysmocom folks are philosophically against doing any tests with
> FreeCalypso firmware, would someone else in the community be more
> willing?  I am hoping to have the next batch of my boards (which will
> also be at hardware revision V2) made in the next few months (more
> precisely, as soon as I can afford the ~3kUSD cost of the new PCB fab
> run for V2), and when I get those boards made, I plan on giving away a
> limited number of them on a subsidized basis, free of cost to the
> recipient.  If anyone here is interested in pairing the source-enabled
> (source freely published for all to see and to tinker with) network
> side GSM implementation from Osmocom with the equally source-enabled
> mobile side implementation from FreeCalypso (which is much more robust
> and feature-complete than OsmocomBB), you may very well be eligible to
> receive a subsidized FCDEV3B V2 board when they become available.
>
> Warm regards,
> Mychaela Falconia,
> Mother of FreeCalypso
>
> P.S. Regarding Sysmocom's other FCDEV3B board which you got before it
> was calibrated, if you have a CMU200 instrument which is itself in good
> calibration standing, you can calibrate the board yourself.  The needed
> software is here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/falconian/fc-rfcal-tools
>
> Given your level of expertise with GSM RF, I trust that you should
> have absolutely no difficulty with figuring out how to use my
> calibration sw if you have the needed RF test equipment.
>


-- 
Best Regards,
Sandi
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