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I know a few are into radio so thought I would post this here.
During lockdown I rekindled my interest in scanning and bought a couple of SDR dongles. I had some fun and even built a Raspberry Pi based desktop receiver, complete with a touch screen and nice headphone amp, the limitation of course was the coax, which I had run into my office.
Then I got a job and had to join the real world, and I actually used the office as an office, so didn't want to spend my free time in there.
I have setup a raspberry pi 4 with a very basic operating system and what is needed to run the SDR dongles, I have also installed spyserver, which is a slightly more user friendly version of rtl_tcp, it also does some of the processing, meaning I can use my mini laptop as it only has a basic cpu
Sdr# has also had a recent update, and is a lot more user friendly, plus the scanner plugin now actually works
All I do is tell SDR# to look for my pi and it works, means I can sit anywhere with a laptop or tablet and do some scanning
Still to do is move the pi closer to the antenna, probably powered with power over ethernet, and work out how to use 2 dongles and switch between them
During lockdown I rekindled my interest in scanning and bought a couple of SDR dongles. I had some fun and even built a Raspberry Pi based desktop receiver, complete with a touch screen and nice headphone amp, the limitation of course was the coax, which I had run into my office.
Then I got a job and had to join the real world, and I actually used the office as an office, so didn't want to spend my free time in there.
I have setup a raspberry pi 4 with a very basic operating system and what is needed to run the SDR dongles, I have also installed spyserver, which is a slightly more user friendly version of rtl_tcp, it also does some of the processing, meaning I can use my mini laptop as it only has a basic cpu
Sdr# has also had a recent update, and is a lot more user friendly, plus the scanner plugin now actually works
All I do is tell SDR# to look for my pi and it works, means I can sit anywhere with a laptop or tablet and do some scanning
Still to do is move the pi closer to the antenna, probably powered with power over ethernet, and work out how to use 2 dongles and switch between them