[op25-dev] Beginner's Guide To Setting Up OP25 From Scratch

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Matt Ames matt.ames7bc@gmail.com [op25-dev] op25-dev at yahoogroups.com
Thu Nov 29 23:35:44 UTC 2018


"not  an issue with the op25 code."

There's hasn't been a single issue in this entire thread that is an OP25
problem...



On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 10:13, wllmbecks at gmail.com [op25-dev] <
op25-dev at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> I was able to replicate the identical issue as trunktracker has reported.
> It turns out to be a hardware virtualization issue in handling of the
> Airspy SDR’s running on Ubuntu as a VM on VMWare Player and not  an issue
> with the op25 code.
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> Normally, I use Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows-10 Pro 64 machine to run
> various Linux VM’s including Ubuntu 18.04 with op25.  That combination has
> worked perfectly using either the Airspy R2 or the RTL SDR’s.   However, I
> installed VMWare Player 15 last evening to experiment with Ubuntu 18.04 VM
>  and boatbod op25 to quickly discover I got the same results (error
> message) as trunktracker when attempting to run my Airspy R2.  Conversely,
> op25 did run perfectly on the VMWare Player setup as long as I only used
> the RTL SDR device.
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> So it then appears to be some type of virtualization issue with the Airspy
> devices on VM’s running on the VMWare Player.    I don’t know that is
> necessarily the case on other VMWare products such as the Pro version, and
> etc.    But it’s definitely broken as far as the Airspy is concerned with
> VMWare Player.  Changing USB modes (support) in the VM settings had not
> impact on the problem either.
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> I ran into a similar problem recently on my Windows-10 Machine where none
> of my SDR’s, Airspy or RTL types would run on any of my Linux VM’s.  That
> turned out to be a issue with Windows Defender causing a corruption with
> the USB hardware virtualization in VirtualBox.
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> Bill, WA8WG
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> *From:* op25-dev at yahoogroups.com <op25-dev at yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 28, 2018 6:48 PM
> *To:* op25-dev at yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [op25-dev] Re: Beginner's Guide To Setting Up OP25 From
> Scratch
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> > On 29 Nov 2018, at 10:13, 'Trunk Tracker' trunktracker at tampabay.rr.com
> [op25-dev] <op25-dev at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > Then I looked in stderr.2 and found this:
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> FYI this is a few bugs and bug fixes ganging up to crash.
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> The first bug was (it is fixed since *2016* -
> https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/commit/11973c64437683cc99c48eae9eb4db8234f1ac42#diff-6afde48a2246887a22e0cbe0a675e1c8)
> in GNUradio #528.
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> A work around was added to rtl-sdr (which is the "Trying to fill up.."
> message) which is at
> https://github.com/osmocom/gr-osmosdr/blob/5ecfa255d299b9b4842ccd09a02892a853fcd5a7/lib/source_impl.cc#L413
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> The second bug is p25_demodulator.py crashing because it doesn't detect
> self.decim is zero.
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> It looks like gr-osmosdr now has the work around removed (since July 2017)
> -
> https://github.com/osmocom/gr-osmosdr/commit/ea6b356cfda8a90fa6d727fcc13aae60547962a2
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> tl;dr:
> - It didn't find your hardware, check your VM pass through
> - Update gr-osmosdr to get less confusing errors :)
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
>
> 
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