Difference between revisions of "Breaking the Ice"

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Tips & tricks about creating a custom client to gr-ctrlport enabled flow graph.

Enable gr-ctrlport

Add to ~/.gnuradio/config.conf

 [ControlPort]
 on = True
 edges_list = False
 config = /home/directory/.gnuradio/ctrlport.conf

Next, create ~/.gnuradio/ctrlport.conf (based on PREFIX/etc/gnuradio/ctrlport.conf.example):

 ControlPort.Endpoints = tcp -t 300 -h 127.0.0.1 -p 43243

Test that gr-ctrlport is working properly by running the gr-blocks/examples/ctrlport/pfb_sync_test-qt.grc application in the source tree and the PREFIX/bin/gr-ctrlport-monitor python application (started automatically by pfb_sync_test-qt).

Hello gr-ctrlport

The Ice Manual contains a Hello World application that we can use as template. Read that chapter and try the example.

Translate gnuradio-runtime/lib/gnuradio.ice to C++ code:

 $ slice2cpp gnuradio.ice

This will generate a gnuradio.h and gnuradio.cpp file.

Create a client.cpp file that can connect to gnuradio:

 #include <Ice/Ice.h>
 #include <gnuradio.h>
 
 using namespace std;
 using namespace GNURadio;
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
     int status = 0;
     Ice::CommunicatorPtr ic;
       
     try {
         ic = Ice::initialize(argc, argv);
         Ice::ObjectPrx base = ic->stringToProxy("gnuradio:tcp -h localhost -p 43243");
 
         ControlPortPrx ctrlport = ControlPortPrx::checkedCast(base);
 
         if (!ctrlport)
             throw "Invalid proxy";
 
     } catch (const Ice::Exception& ex) {
         cerr << ex << endl;
         status = 1;
     } catch (const char* msg) {
         cerr << msg << endl;
         status = 1;
     }
 
     if (ic)
         ic->destroy();
 
     return status;
 }

The above code will do nothing except establish a connection.