Are there any radio hams hereabouts?
Have any of you managed to make an SDRplay RSP1 or RSP1A work with linux?
If so; how?
Nev M0NFY
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Hi Nev,
I hadn’t tried my RSP1A on Linux yet (SDR Uno is so nice), but your email prompted me to try, on a NUC running Ubuntu 18.
Not a great immediate gratification experience — I tried lots of various bits and pieces, and between Cubix/gqrx/rx_tools trying various packages/AppImages/compiles I didn’t get very far, with various crashes, missing libs, different ppas, devices not found and so on. Solvable problems I’m sure, given time.
What eventually did work for me was building/installing: - https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR - https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDRPlay - https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyRemote
Then checking with `SoapySDRUtil —probe=driver=sdrplay,soapy=0` and then running CubicSDR — it found the RSP1A at boot time, and currently I’m listening to 99.3 FM (on a watson 881 antenna, indoors). So I’ll declare victory for now; and try the other configs another day.
Do you have any specific plans for your RSP1A?
I want to do some front-end protection, so the ic7300 doesn’t kill it, a MFJ-1708B-SDR perhaps, or a diy version. And I think the RSP TCP Server is interesting, I’ll have a play with that.
BTW, you might find more information/help on https://www.sdrplay.com/community/
73,
— Martijn M6XKM
On 19 Apr 2019, at 11:44, Nev Young alug@nevilley.org.uk wrote:
Are there any radio hams hereabouts?
Have any of you managed to make an SDRplay RSP1 or RSP1A work with linux?
If so; how?
Nev M0NFY
(sorry if this got sent twice)
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Hi Martijn,
Thanks for this.
It wasn't quite so easy for me but knowing that it can work gave me the focus necessary to persivere. I ended up having to compile cubic-sdr before it would recognize the SDRplay.
But now it's up and working. Well I can listen to radio Norwich on 99.9MHz
Now to go look at those VLF stations ...
Thank you again for the assist.
Nev M0NFY
On 19/04/2019 16:38, Martijn Koster wrote:
Hi Nev,
I hadn’t tried my RSP1A on Linux yet (SDR Uno is so nice), but your email prompted me to try, on a NUC running Ubuntu 18.
Not a great immediate gratification experience — I tried lots of various bits and pieces, and between Cubix/gqrx/rx_tools trying various packages/AppImages/compiles I didn’t get very far, with various crashes, missing libs, different ppas, devices not found and so on. Solvable problems I’m sure, given time.
What eventually did work for me was building/installing:
- https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR
- https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDRPlay
- https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyRemote
Then checking with `SoapySDRUtil —probe=driver=sdrplay,soapy=0` and then running CubicSDR — it found the RSP1A at boot time, and currently I’m listening to 99.3 FM (on a watson 881 antenna, indoors). So I’ll declare victory for now; and try the other configs another day.
Do you have any specific plans for your RSP1A?
I want to do some front-end protection, so the ic7300 doesn’t kill it, a MFJ-1708B-SDR perhaps, or a diy version. And I think the RSP TCP Server is interesting, I’ll have a play with that.
BTW, you might find more information/help on https://www.sdrplay.com/community/
73,
— Martijn M6XKM
On 19 Apr 2019, at 11:44, Nev Young alug@nevilley.org.uk wrote:
Are there any radio hams hereabouts?
Have any of you managed to make an SDRplay RSP1 or RSP1A work with linux?
If so; how?
Nev M0NFY
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