It's highly recommended to build GNU Radio from source to use the most up-to-date version: Installation

There were two GNU Radio workshops at Easterhegg 2015:

• SDR for Noobs
• SDR for non-noobs

gnuradio-companion is the full-fledged signal processing application.

osmocom_fft is a nice little graphical tool for quick signal checks.

http://gqrx.dk

http://sdrsharp.com/#sdrsharp

instructions

• GNU Radio - Powerful suit for signal processing. Also contains 'gnuradio-companion', a GUI for designing the the processing blocks.
• Gqrx SDR - Easy display of signal strengths/waterfall etc. with basic filtering and demodulation support.
• Baudline (not in the Debian package repository) - Another signal visualizer.
• inspectrum - Similar to baudline, but OSS.

NOTE: Current versions of gqrx-sdr and gr-osmosdr in Ubuntu 14.04 are known to cause issues with the rad1o. (hackrf_info not detecting the badge, error loading libosmosdr etc.) The original hackrf wiki has a PPA with updated versions.

1. Install software:

  apt-get install hackrf gqrx-sdr gnuradio gr-osmosdr

2. Make sure the hackrf kernel module is not loaded. If you don't do this, you'll get a -1000 error from hackrf_info

$ sudo rmmod hackrf
$ sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# module blacklisted for radi1o / gqrx usage
blacklist hackrf

3. Additionally you will need some UDEV rules. Replace YOURUSER with your username (whoami)

$ sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/51-rad1o.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d50", ATTR{idProduct}=="cc15", MODE="0600", OWNER="YOURUSER", GROUP="YOURUSER"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d50", ATTR{idProduct}=="6089", MODE="0600", OWNER="YOURUSER", GROUP="YOURUSER"

4. make sure you boot the hackrf-old on the rad1o, as gqrx somehow only recognized the device as a hackrf then (at least with gqrx from debian testing)

5. check with hackrf_info that everything works

6. launch gqrx, it should autoconfigure itself

  pacman -S gqrx python2 python2-lxml python2-cheetah # pulls hackrf and gnuradio automatically in
  

Versions known to work:

net-wireless/gnuradio-3.7.7.x net-wireless/gr-osmosdr-1.4_x net-wireless/gqrx-2.3.x

Make sure the 'hackrf' useflag is enabled where available.

If you have the 'hackrf' kernel module compiled, prevent it from loading by adding

  blacklist hackrf

to your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. (update your modprobe config with 'depmod -a')

1. Install software:

$ sudo dnf install gnuradio gnuradio-doc gnuradio-examples gqrx hackrf hackrf-doc gr-osmosdr gr-air-modes

2. boot into HKRF-OLD on the rad1o (for now, hopefully soon in HACKRF mode)

3. check if it's detected with hackrf_info

$ hackrf_info
Found HackRF board.
Board ID Number: 3 (Unknown Board ID)
Firmware Version: [...]
Part ID Number: [...]
Serial Number: [...]

4. run gqrx, accepting the default of hackrf unknown device. Gqrx SDR Supported hardware

$ gqrx

5. if you get results in gqrx, move on to osmocom_fft, keeping in mind that the built-in antenna is tuned to 2.5GHz

$ osmocom_fft

6. now you are sure the rad1o speaks to your Fedora box and you can move on to GNU Radio

$ gnuradio-companion

To use the rad1o, search for blocks with osmocom in the name in GNU Radio.

You may want to check out the files in /usr/share/gnuradio/examples/

• GNU Radio
• SDR#
• SDR Console

Follow these instructions to install Gnuradio-Suite on your Mac: Prerequisites:

• Install either HomeBrew, MacPorts or Fink
• Download and install XQuarz via http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
• Download and install MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/install.php

Install GnuRadio with MacPorts:

sudo port install gnuradio

You also want to install the OsmoSDR radio blocks for GnuRadio

sudo port install gr-osmosdr

To install GnuRadio with HomeBrew, you can follow this guide.

Start GnuRadio in the terminal with

gnuradio-companion

• GNU Radio
• Gqrx-SDR

• RF Analyzer

Patched version with rad1o support:

• Binary APK: RFAnalyzer-rad1o.apk (as of 2015-08-23, this APK seem to need HKRF-OLD mode)
• Source: RFAnalyzer

Requires an OTG cable or adapter and an OTG capable mobile (e.g. Jolla and Nexus 4 are not)