Copyright 2012 - 2015 Al Brown
al [at] eartoearoak.com
A cross platform Python frequency scanning GUI for the OsmoSDR rtl-sdr library.
More details can be found here.
A basic user manual is also available.
Tested on:
- Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
- Windows 8.1 (x64)
- Windows XP (x86)
- Ubuntu 12.04 (x86)
- Ubuntu 12.10 (x64)
- Ubuntu 13.04 (x64)
- OS X Snow Leopard
- OS X Mountain Lion
Installation instructions are found here.
Windows executables for x86 and amd64 platforms are available on GitHub.
A Windows installer can be found on SourceForge.
- Python 2.7 or greater
- wxPython
- matplotlib
- numpy
- Pillow
- rtlsdr
- pyrtlsdr
- pyserial
To test for missing libraries run rtlsdr_scan_diag.py
Windows 64 bit modules can be found here
rtlsdr_scan [file]
file - optional saved scan file to load
Main Window
- Start - Scan start frequency
- Stop - Scan stop frequency
- Mode - Single or continuous scanning
- Dwell - Sampling time spent on each step
- FFT Size - FFT size, greater values result in higher analysis precision (with higher sizes dwell should be increased)
- Live update - Update the display on each step (caution only use with small scans and low dwell times)
- Grid - Show a grid on the scan
File Menu
- Open... - Open a saved scan
- Save As... - Save a scan
- Export... - Export a scan to a CSV file
- Properties.. - Scan information
Edit Menu
- Preferences - Set dongle gain, calibration, Local Oscillator and the sample bands to use
Scan Menu
- Start - Start a scan
- Stop - Stop a scan
Tools Menu
- Compare - Compare two previously saved scans
- Auto Calibration - Perform a crude calibration of the dongle to a known signal (this should be a continuous, steady signal)
Add the environment variable 'rtlsdr_update_timestamp' to update the version time stamp.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.