GNUradio frontends that stream from different hardware to UDP
This repository is a collection of frontends that serve to stream from several different SDR hardware, recordings and other sources to UDP. The UDP data can be processed by another program.
The stream format is 1 channel 48kHz int16_t. It is the same format that gqrx uses to stream audio
The main goal of this repository is to be used with gr-satellites, but it can be used with many other pieces of software.
You can open the .grc
file with gnuradio-companion
and edit the parameters
(they are on the upper part of the flowgraph). You can also run the .py
script
and specify the parameters on the command line. Use the -h
flag to get help
on how to specify the parameters.
The goal is to support as many different SDR hardware as possible. However, I can't test streamers for hardware I don't have. It is easy to modify an existing streamer to use with another SDR hardware supported by GNUradio. Then, it can be included in gr-frontends.
The streamers come in several different receive modes:
usb
This is like a normal USB receiver. The passband is 3kHz and the signal is tuned to 1.5kHz inside the passband. Use this for signals such as 1k2 BPSK or to record CW audio.usb_wide
This is a wide USB receiver. The passband is 24kHz and the signal is tuned to 12kHz inside the passband. Use this for signals such as 9k6 BPSK.fm
This is an FM demodulator. Use this for any kind of FSK signals.
All the hardware streamers support Doppler correction with Gpredict and gr-gpredict-doppler (you need to install this out-of-tree module if you want to use Doppler correction). To use this, you should set in Gpredict as downlink frequency the frequency of interest that you want to receive.
List of supported hardware:
airspy
Airspy devices.fcdpp
FUNcube Dongle Pro+. It is necessary to install gr-fcdproplus.rtlsdr
Receivers using an RTL-SDR chipset.
The audio streamers are designed to play back and stream an audio wav file.
You have to choose the appropriate sampling rate. The available streamers are the following:
wav_48kHz
48kHz WAV streamerwav_44kHz
44.1kHz WAV streamer
Hint: It is sometimes useful to play a WAV file repeatedly in loop. By default
the streamers will only play the file once, but you can edit them with
gnuradio-companion
and set the WAV file to repeat.
The audio streamers are designed to stream from the audio system: from a soundcard (to connect to a conventional receiver) or a virtual audio cable (to connect to another SDR program or software that doesn't support UDP streaming).
The available audio streamers are the following:
audio_streamer
It uses the Audio source block in GNUradio, so it will use whatever sound system is available for GNUradio in your machine.
Hint: In Linux you can use pulseaudio and pavucontrol or snd-aloop
as a
virtual audio cable between different applications.