WebSDR – internet connected Software-Defined Radios

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  • openwebrx

    Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface

  • for open source alternative take a look at https://www.openwebrx.de/

    Can also demodulate digital modes (DMR, YSF, etC) and it have nice, modern UI.

    WebSDR have a weird list of requirements if you want to get install file - should open instance to public, provide lots of info, etc etc etc. It's not just closed-source.

  • Beagle_SDR_GPS

    KiwiSDR: BeagleBone web-accessible shortwave receiver and software-defined GPS

  • If you want to have something similar for use at home, you could take a look at http://kiwisdr.com.

    I have one, but you need to hunt down EMI sources, before you can properly use it.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • pipewire-screenaudio

    Extension to passthrough pipewire audio to WebRTC Screenshare

  • https://github.com/IceDBorn/pipewire-screenaudio:

    > Extension to passthrough pipewire audio to WebRTC Screenshare

    awesome-amateur-radio#sdr

  • awesome-amateur-radio

    Amateur Radio Resources and Links

  • https://github.com/mcaserta/awesome-amateur-radio#sdr

    OpenWRT wiki lists a few different weather station apps that can retrieve, record chart, and publish weather data from various weather sensors and also from SDR.

    weewx:

  • weewx

    WeeWX code repository

  • gqrx

    Software defined radio receiver powered by GNU Radio and Qt.

  • If you don't need the web interface and your usual desktop SDR software supports rtl-sdr tcp mode, you can easily set up a small board that calls rtl-sdr with the appropriate parameters so that it will wait for a remote connection from the above software, not unlike what happens with WebSDR, but you would be using your usual desktop SDR application which would be native and much more snappy than a web browser. Here's an example using gqrx.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74jDcHuDCmE

    https://gqrx.dk/

  • vhs-decode

    Software defined VHS decoder - Fork (maybe temporary) of the ld-decode Laserdisc rf decoder

  • For NTSC, also check out https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

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  • digiham

    tools for decoding digital ham communication

  • You definitely can, but legality of such procedure is questionable. DMR uses AMBE codec, which require licensing from DVSI, but you can find open-source implementation on github (mdelib, jMBE). Projects such as DSD-FME[1], which allows you to decode much more than just DMR (P25, NXDN or SDRTrunk[2], which allows you to listen to trunking systems (p25, dmr tier 3 and much more) uses software implementation. OpenWebRX users software decoder too https://github.com/jketterl/digiham

    [1] https://github.com/lwvmobile/dsd-fme

  • dsd-fme

    Digital Speech Decoder - Florida Man Edition

  • You definitely can, but legality of such procedure is questionable. DMR uses AMBE codec, which require licensing from DVSI, but you can find open-source implementation on github (mdelib, jMBE). Projects such as DSD-FME[1], which allows you to decode much more than just DMR (P25, NXDN or SDRTrunk[2], which allows you to listen to trunking systems (p25, dmr tier 3 and much more) uses software implementation. OpenWebRX users software decoder too https://github.com/jketterl/digiham

    [1] https://github.com/lwvmobile/dsd-fme

  • sdrtrunk

    A cross-platform java application for decoding, monitoring, recording and streaming trunked mobile and related radio protocols using Software Defined Radios (SDR). Website:

  • openwebrx

    Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface (by luarvique)

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