Just a comment that I've had a lot of difficulty contributing to the osmocom rtlsdr driver. I've had multiple patches that addressed instabilities go unresponded to on their mailing list. After some years they said they had a new maintainer but that it was my responsibility to find my patches and send them to the new maintainer. It would be nice if there were a driver with a gentler barrier to contribution, speaking as somebody who has difficulty interacting with both computers and human beings.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 1:16 PM geraldfenkell <geraldfenk...@computechnics.ca> wrote: > 2021-03-26 > > Thank you Jeff. > > 1. I did not realize that I was replying off the list. This time I did a > reply all and I hope that should fix the > location to the list. > > 2. I greatly appreciate your response and believe that I made a mistake in > saying version 3.8.2 of > gnuradio. It is the automatic version that I installed using apt-get > on Ubuntu 20.04. Probably > 3..8.1.? and I think the ? represents a further refinement. I do not > know for sure. (I know not > that of which I speak) > > 3. I never knew that gr-osmosdr and rtl-sdr were installed automatically > with apt-get. I do have a > hackrf radio and I will at some point pursue gr-osmosdr using gnu > radio as well as rtl-sdr. > > *I truly appreciate your guidance and thank you for that.* > > *regards* > > *Jerry (VE3OBX)* > > > ---------------------------------------- > > [Please keep discussion on the mailing list] > > The rtl-sdr package does not depend on the version of gnuradio. > > Ubuntu 20.04 currently packages gnuradio 3.8.1. Installing that brings in > gr-osmosdr and rtl-sdr automatically when you use > apt install gnuradio > > If you have gnuradio 3.8.2, then the answer depends on how you installed > it. > > There is more information on GNU Radio installation here: > https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:45 AM geraldfenkell < > geraldfenk...@computechnics.ca> wrote: > >> 2021-03-26 >> >> 1. Is there a version of gr-osmosdr and rtl-sdr available for gnuradio >> version 3.8.2 that comes as a package >> that could be loaded to 3.8.2 using a form of sudo apt-get? >> >> 2. If such is available could you kindly provide the exact "sudo apt-get >> ...." that would load it. >> >> 3. Would the point 2. above automatically bring in any required drivers >> for Ubuntu 20.04? >> >> 4. If the answer to 3. is no could you kindly provide any required >> details on obtaining and loading the >> drivers. >> >> Thank you in advance. >> >> Jerry >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >> gr-osmosdr and rtl-sr dare used by GNU Radio, but they are maintained by >> the Osmocom project. Distributions may call something 0.6.0 but actually >> use the latest code. Some RTLs, like the Smart Tee have the bias tee turned >> on permanently. There is also a rtl_biast application that comes with >> recent rtl-sdr versions. >> >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 9:19 AM Wojciech Kazubski <w...@ire.pw.edu.pl> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> Now improved RTL-SDR dongles are widely available, according to sellers' >>> notice they support bias tee and direct conversion. So far rtl-sdr >>> driver has >>> support for bias tee for some time, but the last tag 0.6.0 is quite old >>> and >>> does not have this. >>> Some distributions tend to stick to releases/tags of packages, so they >>> still >>> have rtl-sdr-0.6.0 without bias tee support. >>> >>> Is there a chance to have new tag of rtl-sdr (if the bias tee support is >>> finished)? >>> >>> -- >>> Wojciech >>> >>> >>> >> >>
