Difficulty with my AURSINC Radioberry clone...

[Brad Brooks]

Greetings all, any help is appreciated. I have just received my Radioberry clone via Amazon seller AURSINC. This discussion group has been very helpful today as I whittled away at the build. 

I was able to install the beta release on my , and managed all the way through to the piHPSDR loaded and executing. Interestingly, I see almost the exact same results as Charudatt described at this link...no waterfall: RadioBerry Gateware not Loading (google.com)

On a hunch, I visually inspected the board. If I am not mistaken, there is NO soldering of the ground planes for neither the FPGA nor AD9866. Aside, from some solder in the vias under each board, I would have expected to see a bit more, well, solder. I have included the picture here for reference. 

Also, the SMAs are horribly soldered, obviously.

So I do NOT have a hot air rework, but I could indeed put some solder in each of these locations (along with touching up the SMA.) Recommended?

Thank you in advance! 

73 Brad WF7T

[Brad Brooks]

Also acknowledging this thread:  Amazon AURSINC SDR Radioberry for Raspberry Pi 4 (google.com). I should have posted this in the aforementioned, as it seems very much the same thing. 

[pa3gsb]

Brad

Have you checked this:  https://github.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/wiki/Radioberry---Configurations

Please provide information (see messages in this group ; showing gateware version and so on...) showing the state of your setup.

73 Johan

PA3GSB

Op zondag 18 juli 2021 om 07:17:23 UTC+2 schreef brad...@gmail.com:

[Paul Hollander]

Hello,

I received the same board from china, and installed the software.

Only the command sudo radioberry does not work. Get error not found.

Where can I locate this file?

73,

Paul

Op zondag 18 juli 2021 om 09:48:15 UTC+2 schreef pa3gsb:

[Paul Hollander]

Just, reinstalled it with installation script, now it is ok.

Op zondag 18 juli 2021 om 13:17:07 UTC+2 schreef Paul Hollander:

[Tube Nerd]

Johan, thank you for your patience and assistance. As shown below. Interestingly, my gateware version is 255-255!?!? Seems strangely binary to me...before I reflow is it advised that I install all again?

Contents of /var/log/kern.log:

Jul 18 13:34:42 raspberrypi kernel: [  543.396370] inside radioberry_release function 

Jul 18 13:34:51 raspberrypi kernel: [  552.237723] inside radioberry_open function 

Jul 18 13:48:01 raspberrypi kernel: [ 1342.702699] inside radioberry_release function 

Jul 18 13:48:07 raspberrypi kernel: [ 1348.421644] inside radioberry_open function 

Jul 18 13:48:07 raspberrypi kernel: [ 1348.461337] v3d fec00000.v3d: MMU error from client L2T (0) at 0xa5a1000, pte invalid

Jul 18 13:50:06 raspberrypi kernel: [ 1467.332989] inside radioberry_release function 

Jul 18 13:51:46 raspberrypi kernel: [ 1566.984479] inside radioberry_open function 

Jul 18 13:57:15 raspberrypi kernel: [ 1896.187108] inside radioberry_release function 

73 Brad WF7T

[Tube Nerd]

Congrats Paul...probably following you with the same action. Awaiting some additional thoughts from the group.

[Radioberry]

Brad

Your gateware is not loaded ; search in kern.log.

In the folder /lib/firmware there must be a radioberry.rbf

The radioberry support 2 FPGA types a Cyclone 10 CL016 and CL025; when installing the release (https://github.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/releases) you need to select the CL025.

Be sure that the gateware is at the right location; look into the kern.log for loading information.

73 Johan

PA3GSB

Op zondag 18 juli 2021 om 21:01:20 UTC+2 schreef Tube Nerd:

[Ronald Nicholson]

I saw that same issue when using the GitHub release build and configuring for CL016.  Once I switch to the development build and configured the script for CL025, my "sudo radioberry" output changed to:

Radioberry gateware version 73-0

73, Ron, n6ywu

[Brad Brooks]

Johan, thanks again...I am reinstalling. 

73 Brad WF7T

[Brad Brooks]

Seemingly successful...although I AM concerned about the temperature running two RX slices, and would appreciate any pointers from the group.

Of course, I know really NOTHING about HPSDR controls, so I have a bit of a learning curve there. My goal is to attach to this via another PC running another SDR application. 

Thank you to Johan, and also to Ron.

73 Brad WF7T

[Brad Brooks]

I am very happy with the performance of the units, especially using SparkSDR. This is wonderful stuff...

Johan, again, thank you for your hints and wisdom. As well, Ron, I am glad we could walk this together. I am not excited by the overall build quality of this clone board. I purchased it on a lark, because I am time-challenged and it seemed like a fun weekend project. It indeed was.

In retrospect, I wished I would have purchased a board from Johan and sourced the parts on my own. Although it would have been a challenge due to the form-factor of many of the components, I've hand-built like this before so I am sure I am capable. That said, it would have turned a weekend project into a week-long project, and since "time is money, friend" I chose my shorter path. Much appreciation, Johan!