Ham Radio and Linux - Getting the SDRPlay hardware going on recent versions of Linux. 

Very good, hopefully more people will start to embrace Linux because of your efforts...

@loughkb Kevin - thank you *SO* much for posting this. I'm a newly minted Ham operator here and recently picked up a RTL-SDR dongle to experiment with SDR on my Ubuntu box. I was R E A L L Y struggling to get the dongle communicating with Cubic SDR on this machine until I came across this and it broke the log jam. Once I installed Soapy and some other dependencies the dongle showed up in the Cubic application and now I'm in business. Eventually I'll hook this up to my random long wire antenna. Thanks again & 73 Tom D - KF0OGU

Thanks so much Kevin for sharing your hard job!! . Brilliant!👋 Your script works 100% - Ubuntu 20.04 - 64b installed on a stand alone bootable SSD external drive (grub on it). ... I spent so long time without success.... You did it!. 73 from Switzerland. HB9HFJ, Pat

I keep bugging them for official Linux support but they only come back with a vague we are planning on doing that in the future. It's the only thing holding me up from buying it right now.

dr Kevin, om, your instructions were so short and they finally made it work for me! I bought an RSP1 from a fellow ham a few months ago and followed various not-too-old but still outdated instructions from various sources in the web, and I couldn"t get it to run. Thanks so much for distilling out the relevant stuff for me! I use it on Ubuntu 21.04 with stock GQRX. 73 de Steve, OE3SPR

This is absolutely incredible. I have been trying to get the api's installed for my RSPdx and have literally been working all week on this, and then I stumble on this script and install and up and running within 5 minutes. Kevin, I sincerely thank you for taking the time to put this together and share it with everyone!

Hey, Thanks! That worked!

Now Sdrply have SDR connects for Linux, I have it in my Raspberry Pi4,

hi GQRX doesnt find my SDRPlay rsp1a after follwing your is instructions? when i type lsusb in terminal is finds the it ? any ideas? thanks

I ran your script, but I can't figure out how to actually run SDRPlay....???

Thanks for providing these scripts. It might have taken you some days to figure it out, but you save so many others from having to do the same... The cumulative time saving might be in the order of weeks or months!

Have I ever tried to solve a problem from the wrong direction? Oh, yeah.

Kevin you have a great knowledge of Linux 😊, what would you recommend? I am a novice in Linux so I am familiar with the terminal, nano and so on...

18:10 Hold on....So what exactly did you do to launch it?

Thanks for these scripts.

Too bad the 3.07 Linux API for the RSP1A is so unstable. It frequently (sometimes several times a day) just stops working and I have to restart the service with systemctl to be able to use my SDR again.

Yours works! I could not get my SDRPlaydx going on Macs or Ubuntu following the instructions on the SDRPlay website. Needed to freshly install Ubuntu to wipe out history. And I see hickups, and my Ubuntu freezes, about every 15 minutes... Thanks very much!

Hi Kevin.Thank you for your very good video. I installed both cubic sdr and gqrx on Kubuntu connecting sdrplay dx.I used a virtual machine vmware from windows11. In both the software rspd dx is working, but i have the problem that the audio is crackling in all frequencies and modes. I installed the software with your script. Do you have please some suggestion about how to solve this problem and what can be the cause? Thank you again. I appreciate a lot your work. 73.

Thanks for your hard work, Kevin! The script worked perfectly. 73s VE4UT

I saw you in the GQRX group so I was waiting for this video. I received my RSPdx yesterday, and using it with both OS's will be handy.

Great news. I love my rspdx. Its great for mw (am) and its only sdruno that keeps me using windoze. Enjoy coming back to rsp users😎

You can Use Wine to Run Windows on Linux,

Great video. Inspired me to try my SDRPlay on Linux again. Keep up the good work. Hope you are clear of the Arizona fires.

Great Kevin i had problems with my rspdx as well fantastic you helped me again really appreciate your work cheers Harry

If you ever get to Houston, I have a Kenwood 930 that needs work. Glad to let you look at it. Might make a nice project.

Nice video Kevin! 73, Franco - K4VZ

I ran your script on Ubuntu 20.10 and it works ..... tnx!

Would be nice to have sdr console on Linux. By the way they will release a version soon with a 3d waterfall 😊👍

This is awesome. Thank you for putting in the time to troubleshoot and document getting this up and running. Do you know of software to control the sdr exclusively from command line/ssh for running on a server? I'm new to sdr on Linux, but have wanted to setup hardware to run an sdr receiver with wspr and other decoding software on a server.

Does have any one tried this with mac big sur?

Did you get HDR working?

Thanks! Any chance that your script & dependencies will run on an RPi? The KM4ACK loadup already has GQRX 2.11.5. --N2GX

No, I used to br ax VMS engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation BUT I Think what you do sans linux is wonderful.

Nice overview! Thanks! I noticed in your blog there is a script for Raspberry Pi. I'm interested in that one since I'm about to inherit a Pi 3 Model B. I may have missed it, but I have a few questions: which Pi will your scripts work on, and what PI OS was used as the starting point before you executed the scripts? Thanks!

Thanks for another great video. I switched to Ubuntu 14 years ago. Do any of the Linux SDR apps receive 70cm? Was wondering if it would work for a ham satellite receiver?

I tried doing this with your old video from a couple years ago and I gave up. Too much had changed with the software. Can’t wait to try again. I have it set up on my Mac Mini and Cubic SDR, but wanted it on my MXLinux or Linux Manjaro.

Very nice. Did you get all functions in the sdrplay to work in your set-up? Or is any function missing that you normally have in the Windows based software?

Hi Kevin this install also works for a rsp2 cubic sdr and linux mint 20.1 so thanks take care my friend de gw7lop

thanks a million

Going to try installing it on one of my raspberry pi 4s for my rtl-sdr. KO4MFT

Hey Kevin - since you're running SDR Play in a VM, maybe you're fighting some performance issues due to emulation/hypervisor overhead?

nice work

How is an SDRPlay different from a generic USB dongle, other than the ability to tune lower than ~20MHz, as shown in the video? Does the SDRPlay also have Tx capabilities? I use Cubic, start Soapy inside Cubic, and I'm off to the races with a Nooelec dongle. I downloaded Cubic and Soapy from the repository - no scripting required. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4, running Debian, but po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

❌👀❌. 👋

I have the RSPdx. Also, the word is "depend🇪ncies". 73 VE7NDE

what happened to your camera? picture is terrible

Kevin I am a fan but linux sucks