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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by platz on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:13PM (#13692447)
what is the advantage of this over something like http://gnuradio.org ?
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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by bsder on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:39PM (#13692539)
Ever tried to install gnuradio?

It's a nightmare of twisty dependencies. You can either run the obsolete version in your distro or be prepared for a world of pain.

And it's made even worse because Qt decided they couldn't be bothered with binary compatibility so a whole bunch of things dependent upon Qt all broke and lots of things now all need to get fixed.

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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by jokr004 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @09:33AM (#13695724)
No kidding! It's a complete nightmare to set up, urh is significantly simpler to set up and to use.. though of course the other side of that is it's not as powerful as gnuradio
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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by grandalf on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:18PM (#13692470)
Things like this are designed to let you easily discover the structure of a protocol for snooping or reverse engineering.

You can do all that (and much more) with GNURadio, but this tool offers a streamlined way to do a smaller set of specific things.

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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by djfergus on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:32PM (#13692512)
Very different, URH assumes you have the 1's and 0's and wish to decode the protocol. gnuradio is more about implementing and decoding known protocols and interfacing to rx/tx hardware.
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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by squarefoot on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:50PM (#13692858)
Gnuradio is much more complex and powerful but looks like it's from engineers for engineers: I could hack together a superhet receiver in a day, but have never been able to do anything with Gnuradio that even pretended to work. This is probably my fault for expecting a radio software to have knobs...
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Re:Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols li... by CamperBob2 on Monday February 20, 2017 @11:34PM (#13693296)
Gnuradio is much more complex and powerful but looks like it's from engineers for engineers

And a subset of (Linux-literate) engineers, at that. I'd sooner write an SDR from scratch in C than try to get GNU Radio working under Windows.

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