[Error] GNU radio overheating rtlSDR

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[Error] GNU radio overheating rtlSDR #558

Open colinluthier opened 2 years ago

colinluthier commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug On the MeteorDemod branch the RTLsdr overheats after a pass.

respotic reports that in 1.8-Build-MD-Beta the GNU mode overheats the rtlSDR. Switching to rtl_fm solves the problem.

MihajloPi commented 1 year ago

Hmmm to me both RTL_FM and GNU Radio heat RTL-SDR quite a bit. Are you sure you're talking about the SDR and not CPU? GNU Radio uses more CPU so it can heat it up more than RTL_FM.