Hamsdr
Software-defined radio scanner.
Requirements
- rtl-sdr library
Running
Grab one of the pre-compiled binaries for Linux (amd64 or Arm), or compile from source as described below.
The hamsdr binary is used in the same way as rtl_fm e.g.
hamsdr -M wbfm -f 89.1M | play -r 32k -t raw -e s -b 16 -c 1 -V1 -
Building
Rtl-sdr C library is required. Most Linux distros include rtl-sdr and rtl-sdr-devel packages, unfortunately they are quite out of date which causes the build to fail - you will need to grab the latest source.
Building rtl-sdr
My prefered way of building is as follows:
- download latest RTL SDR source:
git clone https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr - build and install RTL SDR to /usr/local
$ cd librtlsdr
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/rtl-sdr ../
$ make
$ sudo make install
Building Hamsdr
go get github.com/porjo/hamsdr- ignore compile error:
fatal error: rtl-sdr.h: No such file or directory - cd
$GOPATH/src/github.com/porjo/hamsdr - build Hamsdr against RTL SDR:
$ CGO_LDFLAGS="-lrtlsdr -L/usr/local/rtl-sdr/lib" \
CGO_CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/rtl-sdr/include" \
go build
- Find
hamsdrbinary in current directory
Credits
- Code based on
rtl_fmfrom rtl-sdr by Kyle Keen (@keenerd).