Using CN0566 software on Windows

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RobsG

on Jun 24, 2025

Category: Software

Product Number: cn0566

Software Version: Windows 10

I am having quite a difficult time getting any of the software to work on Windows 10. Is that to be expected, or am I missing something? Everything just runs on the RPi, but it isn't a processing beast, so I wanted to use my Windows PC instead. But it seems to just be error after error. I have the RPi connected to my network, and the Pluto plugged in via USB. The Vivaldi is on Tx2, and I currently have the HB100 at boresight about 1.5m from the Phaser board.

I have installed Python, then SciPy, then NumPy. I changed the code to pluto.local as per this forum post ( RE: CN0566 "Phaser" - Raspberry Pi Ethernet Connection) and fixed the issue with scipy kaiser as per this post (RE: Software for EVAL-CN0566-RPIZ is not operational.). I installed Qt5, Qt6, and PySide6 as per the PyQTGraph requirements. However I just seem to get errors no matter what I do. For example, if I run phaser_examples.py then I get this error:

The same happens error occurs if I run phaser_minimal_example. If I try run CW_RADAR_Waterfall I initially get this error relating to QT:

If I comment out that line and retry I then get another QT error:

If anyone is able to provide any advice or assistance on how to get going I would greatly appreciate it. I am sadly running out of time with my dissertation, so if Windows is not going to be a viable option I will need to quickly come up with another way forwards.

Thank you

Robyn

Removed the previously listed MATLAB errrors, as one was fixed by rebooting the Pluto, and the other by a bug fix committed by the MathWorks team after I reported the failure to them.
[edited by: RobsG at 5:48 PM (GMT -4) on 26 Jun 2025]

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0 Jon.Kraft

on Jun 25, 2025 8:52 AM
A couple of things:

1. Windows is no problem. Make sure your setup is like this:

2. Please make sure that the Pluto SDR is installed and recognized by your computer. Follow the install instructions here: https://wiki.analog.com/sdrseminars

3. Watch this video, follow the instructions, and try the example python program at the end of it: youtu.be/5bqsyF1zhR8
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0 RobsG
on Jun 25, 2025 12:35 PM in reply to Jon.Kraft
Hi Jon,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I can confirm that I have the same physical setup. The first link you provided showed up that IIO-Oscilloscope was required; I am not sure I saw that as a requirement elsewhere. Installing that got one of the examples working, so thank you. Unfortunately the other ones that use QT are still failing. I shall attempt to fix those, it is probably some QT version issue.

The video you linked had a new script I hadn't seen before. I can run that, and it partially works. Running from the cmd prompt I get one set of axes at -90°, and if I close that it tries at -80° but the figure is blank. This repeats until the For loop completes. I then installed Spyder IDE and managed to link it to my existing Python environment. When it runs, this is an example of what I see:

Presumably I should be seeing a graph at each angle? To be clear, I tried with the Pluto connected to the PC and to the RPi having commented out either line 55/56. Could these weird things I am experiencing perhaps be a Python version incompatibility? I am no Python expert, and am using v3.11.9.

Regards

Robyn
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