Description

rtl-sdr turns your Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver

For more information see:

https://osmocom.org/projects/rtl-sdr/wiki

Setup for SDR only use - without DVB compatibility:

• a special USB vendor/product id got reserved at http://pid.codes/ : 0x1209/0x2832
• for such devices the linux kernel's DVB modules are not loaded automatically, thus can be used without blacklisting dvb_usb_rtl28xxu below /etc/modprobe.d/
• this allows to use a second RTL dongle for use with DVB in parallel
• the IDs can be programmed with 'rtl_eeprom -n' or 'rtl_eeprom -g realtek_sdr'

Contributing

Pull requests are always welcome but please make changes to, and pull request from, the development branch.

Initial setup:

• fork the main librtlsdr repo via github
• clone your fork locally and cd to the cloned repo's folder
• add the upstream development repo:
  • git remote add upstream git@github.com:librtlsdr/librtlsdr.git
• track the development branch:
  • git branch --track development origin/development

Normal workflow:

• checkout the development branch and make your changes
• commit your changes
• sync your local development branch with the upstream development branch:
  • git fetch upstream
  • git merge upstream/development
• push your commit/s to your forked repo
• do a pull request via github