pySDR

An open source python library designed for RTL-SDR.

Objectives

• This library is developed to provide easy access to RTL-SDR by wrapping the C based librtlsdr driver for python using ctypes.

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NOTE

This library is designed to work with RTL SDR which uses Realtek RTL2832U and Rafael Micro R820T tuner only.

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Installation

We recommend you to create a virtual or conda environment. Download the minimal version of conda(Miniconda) form here.

# Create a conda environment named pySDR.
conda create -n pysdr python=3.8
conda activate pysdr

# Begin installation.
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Tests

To run tests, navigate to the root of the directory and run the following command.

conda activate pysdr
pytest -v -s

Credits

• Most of the base code is adapted from https://github.com/roger-/pyrtlsdr.