I wrote a step-by-step guide:
How to install and run gr-krakensdr natively on Windows
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Has anyone managed to install gr-krakensdr on MacOs. My attempts so far has failed and I end up with gnuradio, but not the kraken specific modules in it.
I haven’t tried but I suggest that you copy the gr-krakensdr files manually to the respective GNU Radio directories on your Mac akin to my Windows document in chapter 5 on page 5. I am assuming that the GNU Radio file tree structure is about the same on all systems. Tell me whether you failed or succeeded.
Is it possible to control this system from a single computer by adding a second kraken? I am only asking to collect raw data simultaneously via GNU radio. If possible, can you briefly talk about this?
I haven’t tried this and I do not own a second KrakenSDR for testing.
See Carl’s hint here: How to run two krakens simultaneously on one computer?
Carl suggested to run two Hemindalls on a single Raspberry.
However your schematic is different. If you run two Heimdalls on two Raspberrys then you will have to install a slightly modified version of Heimdall on the second Raspberry. It differs in the IP address under which it is accessed by GNU Radio. For this purpose you will have to manually modify the Heimdall Python code on the second Raspberry, defining a separate IP address both in the Heimdall Python code of the second Raspberry and correspondingly in the second GNU Radio KrakenSDR Source block on your Windows. The port addresses of the second Heimdall and consequently of the second KrakenSDR Source block may remain the same (5000 and 5001).
As the two KrakenSDRs are not synchronized by a common Heimdall, they will provide two separately coherent five-channel streams. But the two streams will not be coherent with each other.
Even if they were: If you receive these two streams in GNU Radio with two separate KreakenSDR Source blocks, then the result in GNU Radio would not be a ten-channel coherent stream because GNU Radio runs any blocks in separate Windows threads of the same GNU Radio Windows process. Therefore GNU Radio will run the two KrakenSDR Source blocks in two separate Windows threads (which should basically work). However, as the two blocks will be executed sequentially as threads and not in true parallel, the KrakenSDR channels within each block will remain coherent but not the two KrakenSDR Source blocks with respect to each other.
Conclusion: Your setup should work with the above mentioned IP adaptation. But coherence among all ten channels would require significantly more effort.
I don’t think he’d need to modify the code, the second Raspberry Pi will automatically get a separate IP address from the network, and it will be using that IP. The only thing would be to determine the IP address of each Raspberry Pi, and enter that into two separate blocks.
And yep, indeed the two units would definitely not be coherent with each other. Not sure if that is what is needed for your application or not.
Thank you Adrian!,
Now I managed following chapter 5 and adapting for MacOS:
Adapting Windows instruction to install gr-krakensdr on MacOS (M3, MacOS 15.2 Sequoia)
From document How to install and run gr-krakensdr natively on Windows. I had prevously installed gnuradio using homebrew.
# from chapter 5 - makes gnuradio aware of new block
mkdir /opt/homebrew/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks/krakensdr
cp grc/*.yml /opt/homebrew/share/gnuradio/grc/blocks/krakensdr/
# from chapter 5 - the actual code to execute
mkdir /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnuradio/3.10.12.0_1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gnuradio/krakensdr
cp python/krakensdr/*.py /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnuradio/3.10.12.0_1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gnuradio/krakensdr
mkdir /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnuradio/3.10.12.0_1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gnuradio/krakensdr/bindings
cp python/krakensdr/bindings/*.py /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnuradio/3.10.12.0_1/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gnuradio/krakensdr/bindings
# from chapter 5 - examples
mkdir /opt/homebrew/share/gnuradio/examples/krakensdr
cp examples/* /opt/homebrew/share/gnuradio/examples/krakensdr
Congratulations! It seems to me that you installed the genuine GNU Radio on your Mac. On Windows I am working with Ryan Volz’s well-maintained Radioconda edition (Radioconda) but haven’t tried it on my (old 2015) Mac yet. If ever I will install KrakenSDR on Mac I will try with Radioconda and update my document.