usrp-uhd-on-raspberry-pi.md

Install USRP UHD on Raspberry PI 3 with Python Support

*Tags: #rpi *

Prerequisites

  • Raspberry PI 3 armv71
  • Installed Raspbian
  • Python 3

Install

(Initial guide)[https://files.ettus.com/manual/page_build_guide.html]

(Initial guide for Python API)[https://kb.ettus.com/UHD_Python_API]

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev python3-mako doxygen python3-docutils cmake build-essential

There are some missing packages from the initial guide:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-requests

Alternatively, if you use Python 2, replace python3-* packages with python-*.

Install python packages

pip3 install numpy

Clone and generate makefiles

git clone --recursive git://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd.git
cd uhd/host
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DENABLE_PYTHON_API=ON -DNEON_SIMD_ENABLE=OFF ../

As far as I understand NEON_SIMD_ENABLE option should work, but it didn’t for me.

Build and install

make
make test
sudo make install

Setup library path:

sudo ldconfig

If necessary, configure a static IP to the same subnet as your USRP device:

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Check

Try to find a USRP device

uhd_find_devices