[chbot] Help with LimeSDR mini.

[Charles Manning]

Hi Hamster

Did you get anywhere useful?

I was looking at the Lime specs and I'm tempted to add either a Lime or a
Lime mini to my SDR stable.

The HackRF is great, but it is lower bandwidth (up to 20MHz) and half
duplex. My HackRF has a TCXO in it which is sub-ppm which is handy for some
stuff.



On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:43 PM, Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Also...
>
> Many of the SDRs including HackRF and Lime  are compatible with osmocom (a
> generic interface to SDR kit). Thus any gnuradio scripts using osmocom
> should work out of the box (maybe tweaking sampling rate etc).
>
>
> This also supports a whole lot of nifty tools like osmocom_fft,
> osmocom_siggen etc.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hamster
>>
>> I have a HackRF One SDR with similar functionality (not as fast though).
>>
>> A very good start is to watch Michael Osmon's videos at:
>> https://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/ This shows gnuradio basics as well as
>> decoding keyfobs etc.
>>
>> While that uses HackRF One, he has done his best to make it hw agnostic.
>>
>> A quick getting started is to play with waterfalls etc http://gqrx.dk/
>>
>> If you want to spoof GPS: https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim
>>
>>
>> I assume you're using Linux.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:51 PM, hamster <hamster at snap.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have recently got a LimeSDR mini (a 100kHz to 3.8Ghz SDR, with
>>> 66MSa/s, RX+TX) and I am in way over my head. The hardware seems to be
>>> quite advanced, and getting started is really, really hard for me.
>>>
>>> Is there anybody who knows how to use this stuff, and is willing to show
>>> me the basics (e.g. how to watch for 433MHz key fobs, or wireless
>>> temperature sensors, or just look at a waterfall of 2.4GHz WiFI or the FM
>>> spectrum).
>>>
>>> I sort of get the process of setting up the PLLs and then running the
>>> ADCs, but it has way too many options and I have yet to get anything to
>>> happen.
>>>
>>> I am more than willing to supply a lunch or craft beer to say thanks...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
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