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The Soapy SDR Play project provides a plugin module to use the SDR Play device within the SoapySDR API and software that supports SoapySDR.
SoapySDRPlay table of contents
Pre-built installers for various systems are available through the Pothos SDR environment.
- Get SDR Play driver binaries from: http://sdrplay.com/
- Install SoapySDR: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki
The CMake build system will locate mirsdrapi-rsp and SoapySDR development files on your system. The plugin module will be built and installed into the SoapySDR modules directories.
git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDRPlay.git cd SoapySDRPlay mkdir build cd build cmake .. make sudo make install
SoapySDRUtil --probe="driver=sdrplay"
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## Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library ##
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Probe device driver=sdrplay
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-- Device identification
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driver=SDRplay
hardware=1807058E93
mir_sdr_api_version=2.130000
mir_sdr_hw_version=255
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-- Peripheral summary
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Channels: 1 Rx, 0 Tx
Timestamps: NO
Other Settings:
* RF Gain Select - RF Gain Select
[key=rfgain_sel, default=4, type=string, options=(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)]
* IF Mode - IF frequency in kHz
[key=if_mode, default=Zero-IF, type=string, options=(Zero-IF, 450kHz, 1620kHz, 2048kHz)]
* IQ Correction - IQ Correction Control
[key=iqcorr_ctrl, default=true, type=bool]
* AGC Setpoint - AGC Setpoint (dBfs)
[key=agc_setpoint, default=-30, type=int, range=[-60, 0]]
* BiasT Enable - BiasT Control
[key=biasT_ctrl, default=true, type=bool]
* RfNotch Enable - RF Notch Filter Control
[key=rfnotch_ctrl, default=true, type=bool]
* DabNotch Enable - DAB Notch Filter Control
[key=dabnotch_ctrl, default=true, type=bool]
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-- RX Channel 0
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Full-duplex: YES
Supports AGC: YES
Stream formats: CS16, CF32
Native format: CS16 [full-scale=32767]
Antennas: RX
Corrections: DC removal
Full gain range: [0, 48] dB
IFGR gain range: [20, 59] dB
RFGR gain range: [0, 9] dB
Full freq range: [0.01, 2000] MHz
RF freq range: [0.01, 2000] MHz
CORR freq range: MHz
Sample rates: 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 2.048, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 MSps
Filter bandwidths: 0.2, 0.3, 0.6, 1.536, 5, 6, 7, 8 MHz
In case your SDRPlay dongle is connect but you still get
Probe device driver=sdrplay Error probing device: no available RSP devices found
(please note that the message above will be also displayed if all the connected RSP devices are used by other SDR applications and hence not available)
Look at dmesg to see if your system has loaded device drivers for the SDR module. They are incompatible with the binary-only driver. Relevant output:
[20084.148384] msi2500 3-2:1.0: Registered as swradio0 [20084.148386] msi2500 3-2:1.0: SDR API is still slightly experimental and functionality changes may follow
In this case, edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add:
blacklist sdr_msi3101 blacklist msi001 blacklist msi2500
Then, remove the offending modules and restart the module loading service (or whatever loads the modules on your Linux distribution):
sudo rmmod msi001 msi2500 sudo systemctl restart systemd-modules-load.service
As a last step, unplug and replug your SDRPlay dongle and try to probe it again with SoapySDRUtil.
