# Using bus connections

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-bus-connections/242937>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [August 8, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-bus-connections/242937 "2015-08-08T21:14:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-bus-connections/242937/1 "2015-08-08T21:14:28Z")

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Can anyone tell me what GRC is trying to tell me with this flow-graph –  
it has bus connections, and it gripes. Not sure why:

[http://www.sbrac.org/files/multi\_chan\_pulsar.grc](http://www.sbrac.org/files/multi_chan_pulsar.grc)

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**Author:** ![Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcus_DSLeech)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-bus-connections/242937/2 "2015-08-08T21:22:39Z")

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Hi Marcus  
It your vector to streams is set to be float output, but the time sink  
seems to expect complex  
Best regards,  
Marcus

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**Author:** ![Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Marcus\_DSLeech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marcus_DSLeech)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/using-bus-connections/242937/3 "2015-08-08T22:53:47Z")

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On 08/08/2015 03:21 PM, Marcus M. wrote:

> Hi Marcus  
> It your vector to streams is set to be float output, but the time sink  
> seems to expect complex  
> Best regards,  
> Marcus  
> Yeah, fixed that. That allows me to generate an apparently-working .py

But I still get dozens of “connection could not be made” errors when I  
load the .grc file into GR (3.7.8) I was seeing the same thing on 3.7.7.  
The generated flow-graph appears to be fine, but for every bus  
connection, it complains about “connection could not be made”.
