plutosdr setup that acutally works (linux) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / rf-microwave

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 03, 2019, 07:31:02 am
content: What actually works with setting up plutosdr on something recent?I have tried the linux mint version in some PDF online (18.3?) and the newest one (19.something) and pybombs is giving me a bunch of horse shit and it just refuses to work, I tried like every thing in the first 3 pages of google results for the different errors. The laptop I had it on actually physically broke (cheapest lenovo). I think I had GNURADIO working on it with a script someone here made.Will the new stable version of ubuntu work? I am trying this on two different sets of hardware. I want to install this on a hard drive to have a dedicated computer on my RF rack.I got it to work once a few years ago but I completely forgot WTF I did, and it used some weird linux distro I did not like anyway. Also, I want it to run on a 32 bit machine.

author: OwO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 03, 2019, 08:10:39 am
content: PlutoSDR's official USB interfacing is just ass. I would go as far as say it's not useable as an SDR in the traditional sense and you really have to treat it as a Zynq dev board with a AD9363 attached. I would simply do everything from the Zynq and forget about PC interfacing. To be useable as a SDR the Pluto really ought to be redesigned with a USB PHY on the FPGA side.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 03, 2019, 08:49:49 am
content: Quote from: OwO on December 03, 2019, 08:10:39 amits not like I did not do it before, it just involved hoopsbut yes, I do feel like i purchased a troll product, every time I try to use it, its bedlam, i want to make a video assaulting the whole system with a hammerI really don't like using weird linux distributions, I want a popular one like ubuntu to work... maybe I will try again.. every time I deal with this fucking thing it depletes my energy, if it cost any less then it did I would throw it out.. I want my moneys worth from it not a hackjob product........unfortunately with how little interest I have in software demodulation (or communications systems) I will not spend a penny more

author: m3vuv
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 04, 2019, 06:42:57 am
content: i once used linux once but stopped before i went totaly grey!,think its free for a reason.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 04, 2019, 06:50:22 am
content: Quote from: m3vuv on December 04, 2019, 06:42:57 amwhen the red text on a black background starts popping up you go white lol

author: dkozel
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 08, 2019, 10:30:18 pm
content: In Ubuntu 19.10 you can have full Pluto SDR support with GNU Radio using the default repository packages. I've installed them all and more so I'm not 100% sure of the minimal/required set, but here's a very solid start.> sudo apt install libiio-dev libiio-utils libad9361-dev gnuradio gr-iioIf you go this route and hit any issues let me know. I'm on the GNU Radio Slack/IRC as Derek Kozel and dkozel.https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/IRC