AirSpy

A tiny and efficient software defined radio.

This repository contains host software (Linux/Windows) for AirSpy, a project to produce a low cost, open source software radio platform.

AirSpy: http://www.airspy.com

How to build host software on Windows:

For VisualStudio 2013 or later:

• git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyone_host.git host
• Download https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z
• Extract libusb-1.0.20.7z to host directory
  • You should have host\libusb-1.0.20
  • Inside this directory there is README.txt, libusb-1.0.def and some directories
• Download ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip
• Extract pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip to host directory
  • You should have host\libpthread-2-9-1-win
  • Inside this directory there is lot of README files and some directories (dll, include, lib)
• Launch host\libairspy\vc\airspy_2013.sln with VisualStudio 2013, choose Release and Build Solution

Windows MSYS2/mingw64

• Install MSYS2/mingw64 from https://www.msys2.org

• Start mingw64 console

• pacman -Syu

• pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-libusb

• For Windows OS less than Vista Install Windows driver for AirSpy hardware or use Zadig see http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwdi/files/zadig

  • If you want to use Zadig select AirSpy USB device and just install/replace it with WinUSB driver.

Note for Windows build: You shall always execute airspy_tools from Windows command shell and not from Cygwin or Mingw shell because on Cygwin/Mingw Ctrl C is not managed correctly and especially for airspy_rx the Ctrl C(abort) will not stop correctly and will corrupt the file.

git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyone_host.git host
cd host
mkdir build
cd build

Release version

cmake ../ -G "MinGW Makefiles"
mingw32-make.exe clean all

• Optional copy libusb-1.0.dll & libwinpthread-1.dll to same directory as the executable(if it is not in your path)
  • cp /mingw64/bin/libusb-1.0.dll ./airspy-tools/src/
  • cp /mingw64/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll ./airspy-tools/src/

Debug version

cmake ../ -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
mingw32-make.exe clean all

• Optional copy libusb-1.0.dll & libwinpthread-1.dll to same directory as the executable(if it is not in your path)
  • cp /mingw64/bin/libusb-1.0.dll ./airspy-tools/src/
  • cp /mingw64/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll ./airspy-tools/src/

How to build the host software on Linux:

Prerequisites for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian):

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev pkg-config

Build host software on Linux:

wget https://github.com/airspy/airspyone_host/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd airspyone_host-master
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Clean CMake temporary files/dirs:

cd airspyone_host-master/build
rm -rf *

How to build host software on FreeBSD.

Get the prerequisites (from root)

pkg install git cmake

Build

git clone https:\\github.com\airspy\airspyone_host.git
cd airspyone_host
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DLIBUSB_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libusb.so
make

(from root) make install

Add users to group plugdev

(from root) usermod -a -G plugdev <user>

Principal authors:

Benjamin Vernoux bvernoux@gmail.com and Youssef Touil youssef@airspy.com

http://www.airspy.com

This file is part of AirSpy (based on HackRF project see http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/).