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pothosware / SoapyRTLSDR

SoapySDR RTL-SDR Support Module
https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyRTLSDR/wiki
MIT License
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Does Pothos SDR supported the RTLSDR v4 USBstick #73

Closed ZephyrFanBoy closed 8 months ago

ZephyrFanBoy commented 8 months ago

Dear PothosWare,

Hope your doing well. Please confirm, I have the gut feeling Pothos SDR , soapyRTLSDR block only supported the RTLSDR v3 USBstick (R860 tuner chip. ) and not the new the RTLSDR v4 USBstick (R828D tuner chip. ) Is my cut feeling corrct? Please advise how to make it work with the v4 version (perhaps replace *.dll somewhere) or perhaps hint when this feature is being developed? Kind regards a SDR noob

zuckschwerdt commented 8 months ago

The support depends on the librtlsdr used. In short, yes SoapySDR supports the rtlsdr blog v4 but you need an updated librtlsdr (the rtl-sdr libs with v4 support have notes to that).

ZephyrFanBoy commented 8 months ago

Hi zuckschwerdt,

Thanks for the quick reply. I do not understand you, what you mean by : you need an updated librtlsdr ?? I do not understand you, what you mean by : the rtl-sdr libs with v4 support have notes to that??

Can you please collaborate and give a bit more help/details, because I am a noob.

zuckschwerdt commented 8 months ago

You need a very new version of https://github.com/osmocom/rtl-sdr It has this in August 2023: https://github.com/osmocom/rtl-sdr/commit/1261fbb285297da08f4620b18871b6d6d9ec2a7b