pi-sdr

This project will enable anyone with a Raspberry Pi to get a visual representation of Radio Frequencies (RF), using Software Defined Radio (SDR) principles - all this contained in a compressed 8Gb microSD card image, ready to run.

There is Raspberry Pi image for using Realtek based USB Tv tuner as Software Defined Radio scanner. As a bonus - there is a stripped down version of Raspbian before all of the SDR software was installed and configured.

Instructions on how to do it manually are also available.

I only take credit for writing down the instructions, creating and uploading the img files. I modified the original code to make it functional on a wide range of devices, not just a TFT.

The process was tested on a Toshiba laptop first, running debian, then on a Raspberry Pi 2 - from which the images were created.

All other credit is WELL deserved by the original citizens that wrote the software used in this project.

Features

Raspberry Pi
Software Defined Radio
Python
Touchscreen
PC

Project Samples

the software running on the offical 7" touch screen

the software running on a Toshiba laptop, with debian installed

Shows information about the USB Tv Tuner on exit - this is from the uploaded img

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2018-06-09

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