mkierczak/freeversion

A featured-limited version the SDR4.space embedded software, originally designed for embedded GPU systems.

Free Version

A featured-limited version of the http://SDR4.space/ embedded software, originally designed for embedded GPU systems.

This version runs only on x86-64 Linux systems and doest not support GPU.

Documentation

The doc is available here : http://sdr4.space/doc/ (english only).
Basic examples based on the documentation are available here : https://github.com/SDR4space/Examples/

Installation

Download the sdr4space_lite.deb file and run dpkg installer:

wget https://github.com/SDR4space/FreeVersion/raw/main/sdr4space_lite.deb
sudo dpkg -i sdr4space_lite.deb

The binary sdr4space.light executable file is then installed in /opt/vmbase .

  ./sdr4space.light --help
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SDR4.Space Version b1d5b5e3571afd9f5cee649b609507d0ccf0c18e - Build : 20210605
      (c) SDR-Technologies SAS - http://sdr4.space/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Creating Radio Device factory
 Disk free space : 21.0 % 
JavaScript SDR/Sat/DSP and more
Usage:
  sdrvm [OPTION...]

  -t, --timing       Enable timing for each running task
  -h, --help         Print usage
  -f, --file arg     Script file name
  -d, --workdir arg  working directory, default is program location 
  -v, --verbose      Verbose mode (default: true)

running / testing

Create a test file, for example hello.js :

  print('hello world!');

Then run it :

  ./sdr4space.light -f ./test.js 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SDR4.Space Version b1d5b5e3571afd9f5cee649b609507d0ccf0c18e - Build : 20210605
      (c) SDR-Technologies SAS - http://sdr4.space/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Creating Radio Device factory
 Disk free space : 21.0 % 
 VM starting...

 Loading : [./test.js]

(boot:0)> hello world!

No running task, ending.

The Virtual Machine stops when no task is running.

Dependencies

The dpkg installer should be able to install needed dependencies by itself.

In case of trouble or for manual installation, the following packages are required :

• SoapySDR, version 0.8
• fftw3-3
• liquid-sdr (libliquid1d)
• libsndfile1
• libliquid1d
• mosquitto
• mosquitto-clients

Note for Liquid-SDR :

• This library can be downloaded and installed from source following instructions from https://github.com/jgaeddert/liquid-dsp
• For Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04, a package is available here : https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-universe-amd64/libliquid1d_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb.html

Support - Bug reports

While full support is provided to our commercial customers, free-version users should use the GitHub issue tracking.