On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 2:08 PM Jeff Long <willco...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is true. GNU Radio is looking at directly supporting gr-iio (PLUTO) > and gr-soapy (drivers available for a number of SDRs) in the future to give > users more choices. We will still be dependent on outside projects/vendors > to maintain the drivers, though. GNU Radio (this list) is a user of rtl-sdr > and gr-osmosdr, but does not maintain those packages or any other drivers. >
Thanks for your reply. It sounds like this is maybe off-topic, but so you are aware the soapy sdr driver depends on the same osmocom library that the the osmocom gnuradio blocks do. There is only one rtl-sdr driver that I am aware of, but hopefully the maintenance situation has improved since the years of having diverse forks referenced on blogs and youtube videos, each supporting a different set of features. > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:47 PM Karl <gmk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>
