SDRPlay on Mac OSX

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Alrescha
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by Alrescha » Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:26 pm

mdlewis wrote:Am I correct in assuming that this is all I need in order to get the SDRplay device to work, and that the more elaborate instructions above are for using GNUradio and other software?
Yes. I am having good results with the current drivers (1.95.2) and the CubicSDR v0.20 rc4 downloaded from the CubicSDR git repository. With an SDRPlay attached, running CubicSDR should show you the SDR Devices dialog box where SDRPlay RSP should appear in the Local section. Click Start and you are off and running.

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Toontje
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by Toontje » Tue Jul 26, 2016 1:06 pm

That is correct.
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by mdlewis » Wed Aug 03, 2016 1:48 am

I bought an SDRplay and was able to run it with CubicSDR. So far so good; it works fine with CubicSDR. The only problem I have so far is that I can't receive commercial AM broadcasts, which in the U.S. are around 500 - 1600 KHz, more or less. For all I know this could be due to a bad antenna-- for the time being I'm just using a long wire for MF and HF that I've cobbled together, and a two-meter ham antenna for VHF/UHF.

I became ambitious and installed Mac Ports then GNURadio. Gqrx will display but it crashes. I didn't patch the source as I thought the patches had been applied already. Maybe this is the problem-- do I still need to patch gr-osmosdr according to darin's post?

thanks,

ML
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Toontje
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by Toontje » Wed Aug 03, 2016 7:47 am

AFAIK yes, you do.
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by mdlewis » Thu Aug 04, 2016 3:13 am

Okay, I was able to patch the gr-osmosdr source then build it and gqrx. Gqrx opens but at this point I'm not getting any audio. Can someone tell me the proper parameters for Gqrx's "Configure I/O Devices" window?

thanks,

ML
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rosie
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by rosie » Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:10 am

The users you say you have using the mac, what software are they running GQRX? or something else?
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by Sasan » Thu Aug 04, 2016 8:01 pm

rosie wrote:The users you say you have using the mac, what software are they running GQRX? or something else?
I am using CubicSDR on OS X.
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by rosie » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:04 am

TonyHoyle wrote:I'd be interested to know if anyone got it going.. gqrx just hangs when I try to run it & has to be force terminated.
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Toontje
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by Toontje » Fri Aug 05, 2016 3:17 pm

I had it working. Not using it anymore since CubicSDR matured.
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mary
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Re: SDRPlay on Mac OSX

Post by mary » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:45 am

The users you say you have using the mac, what software are they running GQRX? or something else?
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