DSD wants to read from /dev/audio, or from a file written to with DSD. Is there a method of getting a stream [presumably demodulated audio, if DSD is used to reading from a soundcard] from GNURadio into DSD, preferably in real time?
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this might help: How to connect GNU Radio receiver to multimon soft modem - YouTube
It's pretty close, but dsd can only read from an 'MBE' file that dsd has created, as far as I can see. I don't know what the format of the MBE files is. Had a look at the sources of dsd and mbelib but I'm no C expert and the comments are pretty sparse so I'm none the wiser.
This is just a matter of plumbing the audio output of gnuradio into dsd so it should be straightforward enough with one of the multitude of audio frameworks that Linux has so I will be pursuing that route.
I will be using that method shown in that video to play with gnuradio and multimon, so thanks for that.
This is just a matter of plumbing the audio output of gnuradio into dsd so it should be straightforward enough with one of the multitude of audio frameworks that Linux has so I will be pursuing that route.
I will be using that method shown in that video to play with gnuradio and multimon, so thanks for that.
DSD as a GNU Radio block
I've started making a GNU Radio block that encapsulates DSD:
https://github.com/argilo/gr-dsd
It's hard coded to do EDACS Provoice for now, but I'll fix that soon.
Let me know how it works for you.
I've started making a GNU Radio block that encapsulates DSD:
https://github.com/argilo/gr-dsd
It's hard coded to do EDACS Provoice for now, but I'll fix that soon.
Let me know how it works for you.
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dsd compiling on linux 10.04
hey argilo im compiling i got part of it to work but im getting errors
pc@ubuntu:~$ cmake .
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
-- Build type not specified: defaulting to release.
-- Could NOT find Boost
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:63 (message):
Boost required to compile gr-dsd
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
hey argilo im compiling i got part of it to work but im getting errors
pc@ubuntu:~$ cmake .
-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
-- Build type not specified: defaulting to release.
-- Could NOT find Boost
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:63 (message):
Boost required to compile gr-dsd
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Have you already built and installed GNU Radio? If so, how did you do it? I installed mine using the "build-gnuradio" script available here: GNU Radio - InstallingGR - gnuradio.org
I've found [what I assume are] DMR transmissions and had a go at decoding them. The AF output sounds like a dolphin being tortured.
Am I right in thinking that the DSD block wouldn't get as far as outputting AF if the input wasn't one of the modes it supports?
Am I right in thinking that the DSD block wouldn't get as far as outputting AF if the input wasn't one of the modes it supports?
LOL at myself...the reason the audio sounded so bizarre was because I'd set the sample rate of the audio sink to 48k, when your block only outputs 8k [as it says in the README]. Fixed that and I've just heard some actual recognisable syllables with it. Time to get tweaking that antenna.
My post was waiting to be moderated, so it didn't appear until a couple hours later. 
By the way, I've added an option to turn the "error bars" display on and off. (It's on by default.) I think all the important options are exposed now.
The next problem I'd like to solve is that I've got 15 of these blocks running in parallel to decode a local trunked radio system, and so I'm often hearing multiple transmissions at once. I was thinking of making a GNU Radio block that would buffer the audio when multiple channels are in use, and play back the buffered audio during the gaps when no channels are transmitting.
Also, I'm interested in decoding the control channel so I can hear only certain talkgroups (and eliminate the need to have 15 channel filters and 15 gr-dsd blocks constantly running). It would be great to have a GNU Radio block for that. Does anyone know the best open source EDACS control channel decoder is, or at least a description of how to decode it?
By the way, I've added an option to turn the "error bars" display on and off. (It's on by default.) I think all the important options are exposed now.
The next problem I'd like to solve is that I've got 15 of these blocks running in parallel to decode a local trunked radio system, and so I'm often hearing multiple transmissions at once. I was thinking of making a GNU Radio block that would buffer the audio when multiple channels are in use, and play back the buffered audio during the gaps when no channels are transmitting.
Also, I'm interested in decoding the control channel so I can hear only certain talkgroups (and eliminate the need to have 15 channel filters and 15 gr-dsd blocks constantly running). It would be great to have a GNU Radio block for that. Does anyone know the best open source EDACS control channel decoder is, or at least a description of how to decode it?
I've noticed that whether or not squelch is active doesn't seem to make any difference to CPU usage.
Is the polarity one relevant with SDR?
I'd ask on the gnuradio mailing list about that, someone might have something suitable/similar.
You could probably write a flow to do it in gnuradio-companion; daisychain a bunch of "Sample and Hold"s together.
Is the polarity one relevant with SDR?
I'd ask on the gnuradio mailing list about that, someone might have something suitable/similar.
You could probably write a flow to do it in gnuradio-companion; daisychain a bunch of "Sample and Hold"s together.
I notice it on my system, but it's not a huge difference. Running 15 in parallel, I get about 280% CPU usage without squelch, and 250% with.
If your polarity is backwards for some reason, you can just use the Multiply Const block to multiply the input signal by -1.
I don't think Sample and Hold will work because it doesn't do any buffering. None of the other blocks seem to do what I want either, so I'll probably have to write something.
OK, I see what you mean about squelch now...CPU rises to 100% over the course of about a minute, and as soon as anything actually gets demodulated it drops down to 20%. Using squelch stops the CPU slowly rising. It's like something's building up and then being released as soon as it demodulates.
Hey there...
Looks like you wrote something.
How has DSD been performing vs. the OP25 code? To date I haven't had anything do as well as the OP25 code after you patched it (I was one of the guys banging my head against the wall in op25-dev), but have been using windows lately because of UniTrunker's abilities with the control channel. Since you already did the hard work to convert DSD to a block, I'm wondering if I could port that back to Windows as a library to plug in to SDRSharp.
Looks like you wrote something.
How has DSD been performing vs. the OP25 code? To date I haven't had anything do as well as the OP25 code after you patched it (I was one of the guys banging my head against the wall in op25-dev), but have been using windows lately because of UniTrunker's abilities with the control channel. Since you already did the hard work to convert DSD to a block, I'm wondering if I could port that back to Windows as a library to plug in to SDRSharp.
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