bladeRF support

[ryanvolz]

bladeRF support

[ryanvolz]

Right, there would be three steps:

1. Add a bladerf package for the hardware driver.
2. Add a soapysdr-module-bladerf package that builds the Soapy module and depends on bladerf.
3. Build gnuradio-osmosdr with bladeRF support and depend on bladerf.

Modeling on the existing hardware packages, this shouldn't be too hard. It will probably take me a couple hours to put together the recipes and make sure they can build (this depends heavily on how well the upstream is currently supporting macOS and Windows builds, which can sometimes throw in a few wrenches). Then it would probably be about a week to get it merged into conda-forge, and then finally I could include it in radioconda. I might have enough time to give it a try soon, but no guarantees! Then I'll come back and ask for some testing.

[ryanvolz]

Agreed, that's probably the biggest hardware hole right now!

[nhw76]

I'm pretty clueless about conda; it's not an ecosystem I've had on my radar before, but it looks like the gnuradio-osmosdr package over here ... https://github.com/conda-forge/gnuradio-osmosdr-feedstock/ ... builds with support for bladeRF turned off; not sure if there's another upstream dependency that's missing or whether it's as simple as changing an OFF to an ON.

In any case, I'm happy to help (even if only by testing). Let me know how I can help.

[ryanvolz]

This was a little more challenging than I anticipated, but I have recipes now pending review/merge at conda-forge/staged-recipes#18397. We're now at the mercy of conda-forge's volunteer staged-recipes reviewers to get the feedstocks created and have the built packages uploaded. Could be about ~1 week, but sometimes it can be much faster or slower. After that, I'll ping again to request some testing!

[florianjomrich]

I am also really missing this out - to get my bladeRF working under Windows was unsuccessful. Under Ubuntu as well and the Live Images of GNU Radio with bladeRF support are not maintained anymore.
So I also would highly appreciate radioconda to support bladeRF as well :).

[ryanvolz]

I haven't made a new radioconda release yet, but the bladerf package is now available through conda-forge, as well as soapysdr-module-bladerf and a rebuilt gnuradio-osmosdr! Let me know if there are issues. On Windows, you'll probably need to use Zadig to install the WinUSB driver if you've never done that, and on Linux the package should instruct you to install the udev rules if you've never done that.

[ryanvolz]

Released in 2022.04.15