This may help others. I purchased this receiver. Compiled rtl-sdr as per instructions on their page. But when I ran rtl_tcp, I was presented with an error related to the loaded kernel module, dvb_usb_rtl28xxu. When plugging in the device, the kernel would automatically load this module, which prevented rtl_tcp from using the device.
One solution was to unplug device, add blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu in /etc/modprobe.d/rtl-sdr.conf, then plug back in. Now rtl_tcp was able to function.
This may help others. I purchased this receiver. Compiled rtl-sdr as per instructions on their page. But when I ran rtl_tcp, I was presented with an error related to the loaded kernel module, dvb_usb_rtl28xxu. When plugging in the device, the kernel would automatically load this module, which prevented rtl_tcp from using the device.
One solution was to unplug device, add
blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxuin/etc/modprobe.d/rtl-sdr.conf, then plug back in. Now rtl_tcp was able to function.