old-dab/rtlsdr

Software to turn the RTL2832U into a SDR

Description

rtl-sdr turns your Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver

New enhancements and features in this version

Many different developments have been taken in this release. For an overview, see improvements

Build / Install (on debian/ubuntu)

prerequisites

development tools have to be installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git

install the libusb-1.0 development package::

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

retrieve the sources - right branch

git clone https://github.com/old-dab/rtlsdr.git
cd rtlsdr

build

run cmake and start compilation. cmake will accept some options, e.g.

• -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON, default is OFF
• -DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON, default is OFF
• -DENABLE_ZEROCOPY=ON, default is OFF

all cmake options are optional

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON
make

install

setup into prefix, usually will require sudo:

sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Development builds / binaries

GitHub Releases is used for development builds for Windows 32/64.

For more information see:

http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html

https://osmocom.org/projects/rtl-sdr/wiki/Rtl-sdr

Setup for SDR only use - without DVB compatibility:

• for permanent blacklisting you might check/call following from the clone git directory ./install-blacklist.sh