Airspy HF+ Firmware R4.0.8 and libairspyhf 1.8 support
jj1bdx opened this issue · 11 comments
Compatibility tests with the new firmware R4.0.8-BB/CD of Airspy HF+ Dual Port/Discovery should be conducted.
Checklist:
- R4.0.8 firmware compatibility test with current airspy-fmradion 20240316-0 + libairspyhf version 1.6.8: successfully done on both Dual Port and Discovery on macOS and Ubuntu
- Testing R4.0.8 firmware + the latest (HEAD) libairspyhf combination with current airspy-fmradion 20240316-0, by updating the libairspyhf with the latest version: libairspyhf update successfully done on macOS, Ubuntu, and Raspberry Pi OS 64bit Lite, and airspy-fmradion worked OK with the latest libairspyhf
- Adding a document for the changes by R4.0.8 and libairspyhf 1.8
Utilizing new functionality in the latest libairspyhf from airspy-fmradion AirspyHFSource driver will be another issue.
Updating Airspy HF+ firmware from R3.0.7 to R4.0.8 was successfully performed on the three Discovery devices and one Dual Port device at KRPEO. The flash update was done with a Windows 11 machine. R4.0.8 was fully compatible with libairspyhf 1.6.8.
Airspy HF+ Firmware changelog: https://airspy.com/downloads/hfplus_changelog.txt
libairspyhf 1.8 (new version) tested without issues on macOS and Ubuntu.
Note: for macOS Apple Silicon, you need to add precedence of /usr/local/lib/pkg-config for PKG_CONFIG_PATH as:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"On Raspberry Pi OS, you also need the above script to take precedence of /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to /usr/lib/pkgconfig.
For Raspberry Pi OS 64bit Lite, you have to modify /etc/udev/rules.d/52-airspyhf.rules as:
ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="800c", SYMLINK+="airspyhf-%k", TAG+="uaccess", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev"libairspyhf 1.8 also tested and ran OK on Raspberry Pi OS 64bit Lite, provided the modification of /etc/udev/rules.d/52-airspyhf.rules added MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev".
So basically R4.0.8 firmware works OK without issues, for libairspyhf both version 1.6.8 or 1.8.
For Homebrew, reinstall airspyhf with --HEAD option to use libairspyhf 1.8, as:
brew remove airspyhf
brew install airspyhf --HEADSee also: airspy/airspyhf#46
On Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, the modification of /etc/udev/rules.d/52-airspyhf.rules added MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" was also required.