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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 11 months ago

ZephyrFanBoy commented 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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