Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support

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The rtl-sdr package does not depend on the version of gnuradio.

Ubuntu 20.04 currently packages gnuradio 3.8.1. Installing that brings in gr-osmosdr and rtl-sdr automatically when you use

apt install gnuradio

If you have gnuradio 3.8.2, then the answer depends on how you installed it.

There is more information on GNU Radio installation here:

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:45 AM geraldfenkell <geraldfenkell@computechnics.ca> wrote:

2021-03-26

1. Is there a version of gr-osmosdr and rtl-sdr available for gnuradio version 3.8.2 that comes as a package

that could be loaded to 3.8.2 using a form of sudo apt-get?

2. If such is available could you kindly provide the exact "sudo apt-get ...." that would load it.

3. Would the point 2. above automatically bring in any required drivers for Ubuntu 20.04?

4. If the answer to 3. is no could you kindly provide any required details on obtaining and loading the

drivers.

Thank you in advance.

Jerry

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Subject: Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support
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gr-osmosdr and rtl-sr dare used by GNU Radio, but they are maintained by the Osmocom project. Distributions may call something 0.6.0 but actually use the latest code. Some RTLs, like the Smart Tee have the bias tee turned on permanently. There is also a rtl_biast application that comes with recent rtl-sdr versions.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 9:19 AM Wojciech Kazubski <wk@ire.pw.edu.pl> wrote:

Hello
Now improved RTL-SDR dongles are widely available, according to sellers'
notice they support bias tee and direct conversion. So far rtl-sdr driver has
support for bias tee for some time, but the last tag 0.6.0 is quite old and
does not have this.
Some distributions tend to stick to releases/tags of packages, so they still
have rtl-sdr-0.6.0 without bias tee support.

Is there a chance to have new tag of rtl-sdr (if the bias tee support is
finished)?

--
Wojciech

From:	Jeff Long
Subject:	Re: RTL-SDR v3 dongle support
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2021 11:58:34 -0400