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Soapy plugins for OsmoSDR devices

This is a plugin module for Soapy SDR for various gr-osmosdr supported devices. The following devices can be used from the SoapySDR API and software that supports SoapySDR:

• rtl dongle
• miri sdr
• hackrf
• bladerf -- deprecated
• rfspace
• airspy

Note: Blade RF support is now available through the BladeRF support module. To use SoapyOsmo for Blade RF support, configure with -DUSE_OSMO_BLADERF=ON

SoapyOsmo table of contents

• Installers
• Dependencies
• Building SoapyOsmo
• Detecting devices

Installers

Pre-built installers for various systems are available through the Pothos SDR environment.

• https://github.com/pothosware/pothos/wiki/Downloads

Dependencies

• Boost C++ libraries
• Install SoapySDR: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki
• Hardware drivers for every device that you want to use
  • http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/GrOsmoSDR

Note: Even though we are based off of gr-osmosdr, GNU Radio is not a dependency.

Recommended apt-get install instructions for Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

Building SoapyOsmo

The CMake build system will locate boost and SoapySDR development files on your system. Plugin modules will be built for every supported device to which a hardware driver can be located.

git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyOsmo.git
cd SoapyOsmo
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Detecting devices

Use the SoapySDRUtil application to see if SoapySDR can detect your device. In this example, lets use the --probe option to print information about the RTL SDR device:

SoapySDRUtil --probe="driver=rtl"
######################################################
## Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library
######################################################

Probe device driver=rtl
Using device #0 Realtek RTL2838UHIDIR SN: 00000001
Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner

----------------------------------------------------
-- Device identification
----------------------------------------------------
  driver=rtl
  hardware=rtl

----------------------------------------------------
-- Peripheral summary
----------------------------------------------------
  Channels: 1 Rx, 0 Tx
  Timestamps: NO

----------------------------------------------------
-- RX Channel 0
----------------------------------------------------
  Full-duplex: YES
  Antennas: RX
  Full gain range: [0, 49.6] dB
    LNA gain range: [0, 49.6] dB
  Full freq range: [24, 1766] MHz
    RF freq range: [24, 1766] MHz
    CORR freq range:  MHz
  Sample rates: [0.25, 2.56] MHz