Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] multi_usrp examples in trunk

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:13:52AM +0200, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> after some time searching through the list archives I was not able to
> find out what happened to the multi_usrp.py file which is needed to run
> the the multi_usrp/multi_usrp_rx_cfile.py and
> multi_usrp/multi_usrp_rx_oscope.py in the examples directory.
> 
> I found in the svn log, that they haven't been converted to hier_block2
> yet. (Rev. 7607 afaik)
> 
> After changing some code in usrp_multi.py and manually copying it to the
> python dist-packages directory, I was able to run the
> multi_usrp/multi_usrp_rx_cfile.py, which *seemed* to work fine. Looking
> at the samples in Octave they seemed fine too.
> However I was not able to get the multi_usrp_rx_oscope.py to run, as I
> was not able to convert the scopesink stuff in it to scopesink2.
> 
> Although it's flagged as unsupported, I think it would be nice to have
> this kind of examples running. If there's interest in fixing this I
> could send my changes for others to check. If there's
> no interest in fixing it I don't see the point in keeping the example in
> current versions.
> 
> Best regards,
> Moritz

It would be great to have it running.  Please fix it and send a patch.

FWIW, the reason it's still there is so that somebody who cares (== you)
doesn't have to start from zero ;-)

Eric