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Ettus compatibility #sdrconsolev3 #ettus
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Hello Jolly,
I still have problems getting the x310 to work. This morning I flashed succesfully the old firmware/imge from UHD 3.15. SDR console recognises now the X310 connected via 1G link, if the 10G link is connected the unit is recognised as well on its default ip. If I start SDR console and select the X310 (1G link) I do not get any trace on screen if I start sdr console with 10G link selected (after new search) I see an idicator "please wait", the the system crashes. (MTU for 10G link set to jumbo packets) The UBX 160 was still originally packed when I got it, so it should work. I assume the x310 is working as well. Regards Charly |
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Hi Larry
Sorry, I missed your question in 2021 Larry. Busy on the ham bands and many other things to do , so I did not monitor this chat for a very long time. Actually there was no issue at all to connect the N200 under SDR console. The Ettus device search found the standard (default) ip address. I use win7/64 and UHD 4.0 at present. Switching to a surplus server mainboard end of last year with a Xeon CPU solved all bandwith problems I still had with high end I7 main boards. Both network cards (Intel Pro-1000 dual) and Intel x520-2 (10GB Fiber) work at full speed now with their their own dedicated PCx lanes. No shared bandwith! 73, Charly DF5VAE@... |
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Hello Ray,
I you have some spare time pse let me know what firmware you use for your USRP X310 to communicate with SDR console. Pse mention also the UHD release, Do you install Winx64_VS2019 or an other version? I tried many combinations, but got no combination to work. 73, Charly DF5VAE@... PS: I use a low cost Fujitsu M720 server PC, with Xeon 2690 CPU, and Intel x520-2 Fiber adapter. With this hardware I was able to obtain 40 MHz bandwith with an USRP N200 and Intel Pro 1000 Network card. A high standard PC mainboard with I7 CPU limits bandwith between 10 to 20 MHz. The Xeon CPU on the M720 mainboard offers up to 40 PCx Lanes, no shared resources limiting the transfer bandwith. |
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Hey everyone,
thanks for all the replies in here, just wanted to check back in and confirm (for possible other users) that the X300 works. I have nearly no problems running the Ettus X300 via ethernet at 50MHz BW. Audio is clear and according to SDR Console only delayed by about 20-25ms (Image in full res: https://i.imgur.com/7PkOmyZ.png) The device has the "HG" firmware flavor flashed, using a "10Gtek SFP+ to Fibre transceiver"(inserted into SFP+ Port 1) connected to a MikroTik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM. The PC running SDR Console is equipped with an Intel i9 7980XE and is using an RTX 2080Ti for the CUDA waterfall. Network bandwith is about 1.7Gbps at 50MHz and about 650Mbit at 25MHz. SDR Console was able to find the SDR (after ofc. reflashing the EEPROM of the X300 to change the default IP of the device) by just telling it to search for Ettus Research devices. The only bug I noticed was that the waterfall sometimes stopped working after using the zoom feature to zoom in/out, happens mostly when using a high BW(>20MHz) |
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Mark A
Hi, Most Home switches don't do very well when you start chucking huge amounts of data around, especially UDP (I've crashed netgears in the past.) I had a really subtle issue which also affected my apache, which tooks months to track down. (mss) The CPU etc, was not sweating. PC is a rebuilt server, 3.6Gig Oct Core, so again, plenty of ger-runt available.
Best 73 de Mark.
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Charles
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Since the N200 output is to an IP address exactly what did you do to get SDR-Console to connect to the N200? Thanks, Larry, K4LED On Aug 4, 2020, at 6:01 AM, Charly DF5VAE <df5vae@...> wrote: |
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Hello,
I got an Ettus N200/wbs daughterboard working in SDR console - after updating to last firmware. Before the Ettus driver reported a software discrepancy. However I cound not manage to run the full 40MHz bandwith - up to 2 Mhz Bw was ok, beyond it started stuttering - either limitation of my hardware (older I7-2800) or just too much data for >SDR console. Tried same setup with X310 Could not connect with 10GB optical cable setup (never used 10GB optical network - so may be other issues). Managed to run succesful diagnose with 1GB adapter (win 7/64) and x310(one 40MHZ WBS card fitted) . SDR console works with very narrow bandwith, but blocks, stutters or freeze with higher bandwith settings. Hardware or software limitations likely. 73, Charly DF5VAE |
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Erik. M0MWF
If your interest lays with USRPs (as mine does), you'll want a 3rd-gen USRP, such as X3xx, given RFNoC is the direction they are going in. You'll also want the clock module.
And as Ray has said previously, and my testing shows, the UBX series daughterboards seem to be by far, the best. If I didn't mind a divorce, it would be an N320 for me. Seems to be an 'all in one' box, 2x2 MIMO, 3MHz to 6GHz, 200MHz bandwidth / 250MS/s, QSPF+ port, stand-alone operation, built-in GPSDO. Though I've no idea on the NF or anything in real life, as I've not used one yet. But it is in my 'sights' though... UHD under windows is a PIA in my opinion. Needlessly complicated, and Ettus should sort this out. Though we are not the intended end-user in their eyes, they might say.. HTHs. |
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Erik. M0MWF
Actually, my B210 on USB3 streams more bandwidth than my N200 on GigE.
My B210 comfortably runs at 28MHz bandwidth (56MHz viewable, but unusable audio), and is also 'snappier' to use over USB, compared with the ethernet-connected USRPs. Runs 32MHz on HDSDR via EXTIO easily too. My N200 gives 20MHz OK, some drop-outs at 25MHz, and is a similar story for the X310 over GigE. My X310 over 10GE, can comfortably show 40MHz bandwidth, on a single 10GE interface (remember it has two), drawing a continuous ~1.3Gb/s on the NIC without issue. I don't have any 120MHz-wide daughtherboards to play with yet, as I'm waiting for more 'covid cast-offs' from Fleabay to try that. |
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Yes. The advantage of ethernet over USB is faster speed and wider bandwidth. But the cost is higher also. Larry On Jul 12, 2020, at 2:20 PM, ray roberge via groups.io <rayroberge@...> wrote:
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ray roberge
N210 is Ethernet. Ray Sent from my phone. |
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Barry
Perfect. Hopefully the new Ettus releases have solved some of their problems. Thanks for Simon's link that is great information. Appreciate this very much. Elad regarding the S3 says to keep waiting, I am. Thanks Barry. Larry, K4LED
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Barry Jablonski
Hi Larry,
I don't know GNU. For SDR Console I just installed the latest Ettus stuff (uhd_3.15.0.0-release_Winx64_VS2019) in the default locations and all was well. In the past I had problems getting Ettus to run -- it was somewhat convoluted. Follow Simon's info and you should be good to go. https://www.sdr-radio.com/ettus-research Barry WB2ZXJ |
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Barry
I have been waiting over a year on the Elad S3 to become available and I'm thinking of getting an Ettus B210 in the mean time. Is all you use are the drivers from Ettus? Is there any need for GNU to get it to talk to SDRconsole? Thanks. larryy, K4LED
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Barry Ok thanks. Larry On Jul 12, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Barry Jablonski <bjablonski@...> wrote:
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Barry Jablonski
Hi Larry,
The Ettus B200 uses a USB 3.0 interface. I'm not sure about the N210. Barry WB2ZXJ |
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Barry or anyone, For an Ettus N210 how is the connection to SDRConsole made? USB or with a network IP address? Thanks. Larry, K4LED On Jul 12, 2020, at 9:13 AM, Barry Jablonski <bjablonski@...> wrote:
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Barry Jablonski
One additional data point -- I can run a B200 @ 28MHz on a fairly powerful Win10 machine with no problems. At 56 MHz SDR Console runs
but the audio is choppy and unusable, even when setting the Buffer size option to 4x. See attached. Barry WB2ZXJ |
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ray roberge
Console works great with X310, N210 and B205.
As Simon says, the Bandwidth is limited by the connection method of the host computer. 20 MHz Bandwidth max reliably with X310. When you use GNU Radio in UBUNTU the X310 supports Two 50 MHz Bandwidths with a SPF Connection but without all the neat features of SDR Console. Best Regards, Ray |
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Hi,
You’ll not get 50 Msps I’m afraid. Ettus is very Linux-oriented, UHD.dll isn’t great on Windows. From memory 20Msps is very doable, more depends on the computer.
I do believe it works on the X300, there’s an X300 owner on the list who can verify.
Simon Brown, G4ELI https://www.sdr-radio.com
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