GNURadio NoVNC Docker Environments for Multiple Versions

These Docker images provide a fully functioning NoVNC GUI environment for running different versions of GNURadio Currently I have builds for GNURadio 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10. My hope is to offer a multi-version development solution for porting and cases that require concurrent versions of GNURadio.

PyBombs Replacement?

As a long-time user of PyBombs, I understand the Pros/Cons of it. The GNURadio core framework has improved immensily since the days of 3.7/3.8, so I have found that keeping active versions of older GNURadio builds serves me less and less. However, there are occasions where I'd like to investigate a block that is only available for an older verison of GNURadio (for example GNURadio 3.8), which is where I use these containers. After I see they can work, I have the choice to either port the block, or create a slimmer container for the blocks from an older version and use ZMQ sockets for the inbound/outbound streams (more on that in another project). You can build yourself from these files or pull from my Dockerhub

The Below image shows 2 NoVNC Browser Displays running Ubuntu Desktop with different versions of GNURadio (3.8.5 on left/3.9.8 on right)

Building

docker build -t gr37 -f Dockerfile.gr37 .

docker build -t gr38 -f Dockerfile.gr38 .

docker build -t gr39 -f Dockerfile.gr39 .

docker build -t gr310 -f Dockerfile.gr310 .

(or just pull the images)

GNURadio 3.7

docker pull muaddib1984/gr37_novnc

GNURadio 3.8

docker pull muaddib1984/gr38_novnc

GNURadio 3.9

docker pull muaddib1984/gr39_novnc

GNURadio 3.10

docker pull muaddib1984/gr310_novnc

Usage

To Run:

docker run --rm -dt --name gr37 -p 10037:80

docker run --rm -dt --name gr38 -p 10038:80

docker run --rm -dt --name gr39 -p 10039:80

docker run --rm -dt --name gr310 -p 10310:80

To Use GNURadio 3.8:

Navigate to 127.0.0.1:10037 in your web browser

To Use GNURadio 3.8:

Navigate to 127.0.0.1:10038 in your web browser

To Use GNURadio 3.9

Navigate to 127.0.0.1:10039 in your web browser

To Use GNURadio 3.10

Navigate to 127.0.0.1:10310 in your web browser

To Stop:

docker stop gr37

docker stop gr38

docker stop gr39

docker stop gr310

CREDITS

All credit really goes to @tdsepsilon for his post here I just changed the dependencies and repos to match various versions.