librtlsdr
Software to turn the RTL2832U into an SDR (by librtlsdr)
Hamlib
Ham radio control library for rigs, rotators, tuners, and amplifiers (by Hamlib)
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| librtlsdr | Hamlib | |
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| 29 | 3 | |
| 283 | 545 | |
| 2.1% | 3.1% | |
| 5.2 | 9.9 | |
| 30 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
librtlsdr
Posts with mentions or reviews of librtlsdr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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Radically different noise levels of different software and other noise reductions
Download the https://github.com/rtlsdrblog/rtl-sdr-blog or https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr version instead. Even try both, since there may be differences.
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rtl_tcp for HF frequencies?
Give https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr a try?
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Running rtl_power?
I should have mentioned, I'm using this fork of the librtlsdr library, which contains a slightly different version of rtl_power with some extra features, and apparently the "-D" option is treated differently in the version I'm using. The forked version allows you to set a specific branch using the "-D" option, as described below:
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RTL SDR linux driver with full control.
There are a few variations of librtlsdr, f.e. this fork; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr which adds features that aren't available in the version used in most Linux distributions. This adds some extra features and output that are really useful (most notably, regular output of max, min, mean power levels and noise floor). It also has some extra functions to fine tune signals.
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Listen to DMR for free
Linux, librtlsdr and this port of DSD. FWIW, this port of DSD is newer and also has a Windows binary.
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WBFM and nrsc5 using lightweight tools
Next I moved onto try feeding the output of rtl_sdr (from https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr) to nrsc5 and that worked well!
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How to receive and record fm radio in stereo on the command line
You have an older librtlsdr; I'm using the GitHub version, which adds extra features; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr
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'rtlsdr_set_bias_tee' not found
Thank you for your reply, I have tried it with the 'static' from the official GitHub https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr/releases , but the error remains? Do you mean an even newer version?
- command line tool to search for local FM stations?
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would I get worse performance by buying this nooelec clone instead of the real thing? the real thing is 10 bucks pricier and it also comes with a remote which i don't see myself using. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/RTL-SDR-Receiver-Antenna-RTL2832U-Software-blue/dp/B094ZJ3VVN/
github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr may be worthy to check out.
Hamlib
Posts with mentions or reviews of Hamlib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
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Does anyone know how to install/build the Python Hamlib bindings package for Windows? There seems to be limited documentation and the package is not available on PyPi. Any help would be so greatly appreciated.
What computer programmer level are you at? So are you wanting to compile them yourself or just get them installed anyway possible? Easiest way would be for You to download the precompiled binaries for windows here: https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/releases/tag/4.5.5 . I haven't used windows in 5 years or more, but installing the .exe files should work for windows. Uou can also install python libraries using pip, but I cant remember how to install pip on windows.
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Linux, rigctl, net bookmarks, and perl make... a software utility?
Practically all modern (20–30 years or so) rigs you'll ever encounter are controllable from Linux. https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/wiki/Supported-Radios
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Coding for the RTL-SDR
A 5 second search on google reveals that there are popular and performant SDR libraries for controlling rigs in C/C++. I don't know see you felt you needed to make this post.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing librtlsdr and Hamlib you can also consider the following projects:
rtl-sdr - library for turning a RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a Software DefinedReceiver; mirror from https://gitea.osmocom.org/sdr/rtl-sdr
SDRPlusPlus - Cross-Platform SDR Software
gcc_termux - Gcc for termux with fortran scipy etc... Use apt for newest updates instructions in README.txt
hamnets - CLI tool for managing rigctl capable amateur radios and chat ('Nets) favorites
multimon-ng
gqrx-scan
rtl-power-fftw - Power spectrum for RTLSDR dongles.
noaa-apt - NOAA APT weather satellite image decoder, for Linux, Windows, RPi 2+, OSX and Android+Termux
openwebrx - Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface
dump1090-fa
ngsoftfm - NGSoftFM is a command line software decoder for FM broadcast radio with stereo support