I have installed the ettus binary of gnuradio in windows 7 which seems
to
work fine however I cannot work out how to get an RTL-SDR block to use
it
with a RTL2832U TV Tuner?
I decided maybe I should go with Cygwin, as I already had it installed,
so I
could try and compile the code for the RTL, I followed the instructions
on
the gnuradio site but I just cannot get wxPython to compile, I get a
cannot
find file or folder direct.h error after running make
I’ve spent about a week trying to get things going, please help…
I’ve spent about a week trying to get things going, please help…
Thanks,
Andy
I would focus on getting things working natively in Windows than
trying to work it out under Cygwin. But having said that, since I
don’t use Windows, I can’t guarantee that the RTL-SDR will work under
Windows. Can you explain more what’s going wrong when you try to use
it?
I would focus on getting things working natively in Windows than
trying to work it out under Cygwin. But having said that, since I
don’t use Windows, I can’t guarantee that the RTL-SDR will work under
Windows. Can you explain more what’s going wrong when you try to use
it?
Tom
Hi Tom,
Thanks for replying, the issue is I don’t know how to create or add the
source block to try it, as I am on windows do I need to compile the
block
from the source code? If so I don’t know how, or do I just need to copy
the
source into the gnuradio file system?
Thanks for replying, the issue is I don’t know how to create or add the
source block to try it, as I am on windows do I need to compile the block
from the source code? If so I don’t know how, or do I just need to copy the
source into the gnuradio file system?
TIA
Andy.
Andy,
My guess is that you’ll have to compile the RTL-SDR code by hand for
Windows, and I can’t help you with that.
Anyone else have any experience with the RTL-SDR code and Windows that
can help?
Sylvain is right, you can use the pre-build binaries. I’ve worked with
the rtl-sdr library on windows before [0], although not with gnuradio.
If you can to compile the source block, it should work fine.
For the driver installation I tried a tool called Zadig (it failed). So
I downloaded the WinUSB drivers [2] myself and changed VID/PID in the
inf-file to match my device before installing the driver.
www.sdrsharp.com tells how to use zadig, and which ones work, and which
don’t. I am using only sdr# and hdsdr under Windows, both with RTL2832
sticks and USRP1, without any problems. The RTL stick is my all day
companion (with an exclusive place in my laptop bag when traveling
on
train and wanting to know what the RF spectrum has to tell Hopefully
bladeRF will replace it soon, then I even can talk back to the
spectrum…
Sylvain is right, you can use the pre-build binaries. I’ve worked with the
rtl-
sdr library on windows before [0], although not with gnuradio.
If you can to compile the source block, it should work fine.
For the driver installation I tried a tool called Zadig (it failed). So I
downloaded
I don’t have any experience with windows, but just try to build the
rtl-sdr library ( git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr ) then the source
block ( git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr ). Both support cmake build
system, so build and install them exactly like you would build and
install gnuradio itself …
Cheers,
Sylvain
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