Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

2021-03-26 Thread Karl
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 2:08 PM Jeff Long 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 dr

Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

2021-03-26 Thread Jeff Long
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

Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

2021-03-26 Thread Karl
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

Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

2021-03-26 Thread geraldfenkell
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. I

Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

2021-03-26 Thread Jeff Long
tKLwKXzU2IfU= > X-Received: by 2002:a25:4802:: with SMTP id > v2mr19752937yba.162.1616767627514; > Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:07:07 -0700 (PDT) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > References: > > In-Reply-To: > > From: Jeff Long > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:06:56 -0400 > Messag

Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

2021-03-26 Thread Jeff Long
gr-osmosdr and rtl-sdr are 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