It simply doesn’t appear in the Front End selection box. So what does this mean to the average SDR#/RTL-SDR user? Well, for starters, you can NOT just download the latest nightly build, unzip, double-click the executable and expect to use the RTL-SDR dongle as you’ve become accustomed to. You can read Youssef’s position in full on the SDR# downloads page. He also opines that the attempt to divert users from SDR# to some forked project may be an attempt to spread malicious code in the growing SDR community given the popularity of the RTL-SDR dongle. Youssef, the developer of SDR# has countered that any licensing questions have been resolved between himself and Osmocom and changed the download structure accordingly. (Linux users report success running it under Mono.)Īccording to a blog posting on Reddit RTLSDR, there appears to be an attempt to subvert the SDR# user base with allegations that SDR# was somehow violating the GPL by embedding RTL-SDR support in the download, and that SDR# can no longer be used with the dongle. The only downside, of course, is that it’s developed for Windows since it’s written in C#. If you’ve tried it you know it’s incredibly user friendly and provides immediate, full-featured use of the RTL-SDR dongle out-of-the-box. I believe the download uses an old usb drivers that not hosted anymore so ill have to wait for an update from the person that put the plugins together.As you may have noted in our previous posts, there exists an excellent piece of software written for use with the RTL-SDR dongle known as SDR#. NOTE: lutris is still kinda buggy might have to press cancel a few times and such.Įverything seems to work except for the freq scannerĮdit: I had to post a link for the community package with plugins as its what I used. If anyone knows how to get radio dongle to connect to sdr# sharp without having the do the rtl_tcp trick pls respond below. Start sdrsharp from desktop and select Source dropdown box to RTL-SDR(TCP)

Go to Winetricks on bottom right side of lutrisĪfter everything is complete you should find sdrsharp on your desktop Scroll down to where it says wine, click on wrench and screwdriver in a box icon, click checkbox on lutris 4.15(might already be installed, just skip if not shown)ĮXECUTABLE click on browse and select SDRSharp-installer.exe I downloaded the community package with plugins from This is what i did in order to get SDR# to work on manjaro linux.

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