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  • urh

    Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like A Boss

    • Project mention: Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-21

    >> or somewhat expensive and complex SDR

    I don’t think that’s as accurate today as it used to be.

    On the hardware side there are tons of options very cheaply available - iirc the flipper uses the c1100 (or a number like that) it’s a popular cheap chip and it’s well documented and interfaces easily with arduino.

    More accessibly, lime mini SDRs are cheap but there’s quite a few alternatives too.

    On the software side GNU Radio is free with decent tutorials - we’re not talking anything like blender levels of difficulty to adopt even if it is a complex domain.

    Although on the more accessible side, urh is incredibly powerful given how easy to use it is https://github.com/jopohl/urh

    I used the latter to tap into a 2 channel wireless bbq thermometer via a $10 rtl sdr and that was a breeze, an absolute walk in the park compared to when I reverse engineered the flysky telemetry system.

  • rtl_433

    Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)

    • Project mention: Reverse engineering a car key fob signal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14

    And there's a multiformat receiver block too: https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433

  • 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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  • IMSI-catcher

    This program show you IMSI numbers of cellphones around you.

    • Project mention: The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-29

    I'll do you one better:

    For GSM, basic IMSI sniffing: https://github.com/Oros42/IMSI-catcher

  • gqrx

    Software defined radio receiver powered by GNU Radio and Qt.

    • Project mention: Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

    There's an issue open for this: https://github.com/gqrx-sdr/gqrx/issues/1104

    I could really use some help from a software build expert. Gqrx and all its dependencies would need to be built in CI with Apple silicon support, and I don't know how to do that.

  • sdrangel

    SDR Rx/Tx software for Airspy, Airspy HF+, BladeRF, HackRF, LimeSDR, PlutoSDR, RTL-SDR, SDRplay RSP1 and FunCube

    • Project mention: SDRangel release | /r/RTLSDR | 2023-11-01

  • rtlamr

    An rtl-sdr receiver for Itron ERT compatible smart meters operating in the 900MHz ISM band.

    • Project mention: Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-23

    My municipal water meter transmits readings in the clear on the 915 MHz band. There's a neat program to catch the readings: https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr

  • CubicSDR

    Cross-Platform Software-Defined Radio Application

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  • FISSURE

    The RF and reverse engineering framework for everyone. Follow and ★ to show your support!

  • gnss-sdr

    GNSS-SDR, an open-source software-defined GNSS receiver

    • Project mention: Just scrolled past a certain sarcastic Flatwittoid poast about not beïng able to see satellites in photographs. The whole frame of this represents *one single pixel of a high resolution* image, & the smiley represents a satellite. Details inside. | /r/flatearth | 2023-05-20

    You realise you can write software yourself to interpret the signals from GPS satellites? Here's an open-source implementation.

  • tar1090

    Provides an improved webinterface for use with ADS-B decoders readsb / dump1090-fa

    • Project mention: My Toddler Loves Planes, So I Built Her a Radar | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-27

    This is cool in concept, but FlightRadar24 has a built-in Augmented Reality feature that works really well.

    https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/show-us-your-best-augment...

    Also, if I were to build my own local copy, I'd use an RTLSDR to get the ADSB packets direct and base my app on tar1090. https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090

  • qspectrumanalyzer

    Spectrum analyzer for multiple SDR platforms (PyQtGraph based GUI for soapy_power, hackrf_sweep, rtl_power, rx_power and other backends)

  • stratux

    Aviation weather and traffic receiver based on RTL-SDR.

    • Project mention: stratux.me down | /r/stratux | 2023-05-12

    stratux.me seems to be non-functional. I think this has been mentioned on here before. Maybe have it redirect to the github page? Is this the github page we should be using? https://github.com/cyoung/stratux

  • openwebrx

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

    • Project mention: WebSDR – internet connected Software-Defined Radios | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-26

  • wmbusmeters

    Read the wired or wireless mbus protocol to acquire utility meter readings.

    • Project mention: Residential water meter - Community feedback is welcome | /r/Esphome | 2023-05-30

    It's possible you do not even need a meter. You can often read the utilities meter https://github.com/wmbusmeters/wmbusmeters

  • RTLSDR-Airband

    Multichannel AM/NFM demodulator

    • Project mention: Listen to HD radio with a $30 RTL SDR dongle | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

    You're all correct, except there are not that many $30 SDRs out there. Also, most SDRs have clearly superior capabilities to the RTL-SDR, though those capabilities often are not required.

    BTW, for simple AM/FM demodulation I cannot recommend enough the handy https://github.com/charlie-foxtrot/RTLSDR-Airband. For example most of LiveATC.net feeds run on it.

  • rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp

    • Project mention: Rtl-sdr or sdrplay RSP1A | /r/RTLSDR | 2023-12-10

    Bonus: Check out https://github.com/shajen/rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp I've been experimenting with this and got it to work with the RSP1A it can record everything within it's allowed bandwidth and pull out / label calls... It even uses a small AI feature to differentiate between speech and noise (mileage may very). Good luck on your journey!

  • noaa-apt

    NOAA APT weather satellite image decoder, for Linux, Windows, RPi 2+, OSX and Android+Termux

    • Project mention: Receiving Weather Satellite Images Using SatDump | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09

    GOES sats are geostationary but the NOAA APT satellites are encircling the planet and you can pick them up. Old tutorial but still relevant, just use "noaa-apt" tool[0] instead of WXtoImg. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weat...

    [0] https://github.com/martinber/noaa-apt

  • AIS-catcher

    AIS receiver for RTL SDR dongles, Airspy R2, Airspy Mini, Airspy HF+, HackRF, SDRplay and SoapySDR

  • redsea

    RDS decoder for the command line (by windytan)

  • SkyScan

    Automatically photograph planes that fly by!

    • Project mention: IQTLabs/SkyScan: Automatically photograph planes that fly by | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-25

  • readsb

    ADS-B decoder swiss knife

    • Project mention: ADS-B setup | /r/RTLSDR | 2023-05-30

  • r2cloud

    Decode satellite signals on Raspberry PI or any other 64-bit CPU.

  • rtl-wmbus

    Software defined receiver for wireless M-Bus with RTL-SDR

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-14.

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What are some of the best open-source rtl-sdr projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 urh 10,395
2 rtl_433 5,719
3 IMSI-catcher 3,020
4 gqrx 2,863
5 sdrangel 2,590
6 rtlamr 2,045
7 CubicSDR 1,974
8 FISSURE 1,494
9 gnss-sdr 1,472
10 tar1090 1,133
11 qspectrumanalyzer 1,106
12 stratux 1,024
13 openwebrx 922
14 wmbusmeters 814
15 RTLSDR-Airband 703
16 rtl-sdr-scanner-cpp 577
17 noaa-apt 552
18 AIS-catcher 395
19 redsea 378
20 SkyScan 314
21 readsb 293
22 r2cloud 249
23 rtl-wmbus 205

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