Vagrant and Ansible stuff for LimeSDR

• Quick and dirty way to get the LimeSDR up and running on OSX.

  This installs the following software:

  • LimeSuite
  • Soapy modules
  • Gnuradio
  • GQRX

Requirements

• VirtualBox and VirtualBox extension pack (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
• vagrant (brew install vagrant)
• ansible (brew install ansible)

Instructions

1. Install VirtualBox, vagrant, and ansible
2. Clone this repo
3. Run vagrant up
   • This will setup an ubuntu VM with most prerequirements as well as create shortcuts for things

Test

• Test if LimeSDR is recognized and USB filter works correct:

dmesg|egrep -i '(lime|myriad)'

expected output: something like:

[  468.079086] usb 3-1: Product: LimeSDR-USB
[  468.079087] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Myriad-RF

• Test SoapySDR:

SoapySDRUtil --find=filter=lime

expected output: something like:

######################################################
## Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library
######################################################

Found device 0
  addr = 1d50:6108
  driver = lime
  media = USB
  module = STREAM
  name = USB 3.0 (LimeSDR-USB)
  serial = <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

• Test LimeSDR-stuff

  Follow guide on https://wiki.myriadrf.org/LimeSDR-USB_Quick_Test .

Known issues

• This is in fact not the recommended way to use an SDR due to USB limitations on Virtualbox. However, it is a quick way to have a working Lime-configuration on OSX. Please do not use in production.
• Please select the correct antenna in GQRX. Default is 'none'. It took me some time to figure this out... :)
• This works for me. (MacOS 10.12.3, Virtualbox 5.1.14, Vagrant 1.9.1, Ansible 2.2.1.0) Results may vary...

More info

• https://wiki.myriadrf.org/LimeSDR_Quick_Start
• http://wiki.myriadrf.org/Packaging#GNU_Radio_PPA
• https://myriadrf.org/blog/limesdr-application-ecosystem/
• https://myriadrf.org/blog/limesuite-driver-architecture/
• https://wiki.myriadrf.org/Lime_Suite
• https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki
• https://github.com/pothosware/pothos-sdr/wiki/Tutorial