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DaveNF2G

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Jul 31, 2022, 6:56:41 AM7/31/22
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rtl_433-version-21.12-108-g5c17e4e3-Winx64

Program would not start at all until I copied SoapySDR.dll and rtlsdr.dll into directory.

double-click rtl_433.exe in File Explorer
    yellow Unknown Publisher box
    unable to start correctly

rtl_433.exe in CMD terminal
    yellow Unknown Publisher box
    unable to start correctly

rtl_433.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M in CMD terminal
    yellow Unknown Publisher box
    unable to start correctly

rtl_433.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M -H 2 in CMD terminal
    yellow Unknown Publisher box
    unable to start correctly

All tests have the same results using Elevated CMD terminal.

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rtl_433_64bit_static

Current released version.  rtlsdr.dll not included in download or added to directory.

double-click rtl_433_64bit_static.exe in File Explorer
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe in CMD terminal
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M in CMD terminal
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz
    on exit (CTRL-C):
    Signal caught, exiting!

    LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND: Entity not found!
    Check your RTL-SDR dongle, USB cables, and power supply.

    WARNING: async read failed (-5).

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M -H 2 in CMD terminal
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz, then

LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND: Entity not found!
Check your RTL-SDR dongle, USB cables, and power supply.

Tuned to 315.000MHz.

center_frequency: 315000000                        frequencies: 433920000, 315000000, 345000000, 868000000, 915000000
hop_times : 2
WARNING: async read failed (-5).

Library error -5, exiting...


All tests have the same results using an elevated CMD prompt, except that
rtl_433_64bit_static.exe in Elevated CMD terminal
also gives device permissions error

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rtl_433_64bit_static

Current released version. Added rtlsdr.dll to directory.

double-click rtl_433_64bit_static.exe in File Explorer
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz
    on exit (CTRL-C):
    possible async read error, terminal closes too fast to read

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe in CMD terminal
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz
    on exit (CTRL-C):
    Signal caught, exiting!

    LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND: Entity not found!
    Check your RTL-SDR dongle, USB cables, and power supply.

    WARNING: async read failed (-5).

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M in CMD terminal
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz
    on exit (CTRL-C):
    Signal caught, exiting!

    LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND: Entity not found!
    Check your RTL-SDR dongle, USB cables, and power supply.

    WARNING: async read failed (-5).

rtl_433_64bit_static.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M -H 2 in CMD terminal
    PLL not locked warning
    starts and decodes on 433.920 MHz
    on first hop attempt (does not indicate retuning):

    LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND: Entity not found!
    Check your RTL-SDR dongle, USB cables, and power supply.

All tests have the same results using an elevated CMD prompt, except that
rtl_433_64bit_static.exe -f 433.92M -f 315M -f 345M -f 868M -f 915M -H 2 in Elevated CMD terminal
exits after first hop attempt with
LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND: Entity not found!
Check your RTL-SDR dongle, USB cables, and power supply.

Tuned to 315.000MHz.
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center_frequency: 315000000                        frequencies: 433920000, 315000000, 345000000, 868000000, 915000000
hop_times : 2
WARNING: async read failed (-5).

Library error -5, exiting...

Philip Knowles

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Jul 31, 2022, 10:53:27 AM7/31/22
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Have you followed this?

Windows

Visual Studio 2017

You need PothosSDR installed to get RTL-SDR and SoapySDR libraries. Any recent version should work, e.g. 2021.07.25-vc16.

When installing PothosSDR choose "Add PothosSDR to the system PATH for the current user".

For TLS support (mqtts and influxs) you need OpenSSL installed. E.g. install Chocolatey then open a Command Prompt and

choco install openssl

Clone the project, e.g. open Visual Studio, change to "Team Explorer" > "Projects" > "Manage Connections" > "Clone" and enter https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433.git

If you want to change options, in the menu select "CMake" > "Change CMake Settings" > "rtl433", select e.g. "x64-Release", change e.g.

"buildRoot": "${workspaceRoot}\\build",
"installRoot": "${workspaceRoot}\\install",

To start a build use in the menu e.g. "CMake" > "Build all"

Or build at the Command Prompt without opening Visual Studio. Clone rtl_433 sources, then

cd rtl_433
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" ..
cmake --build .

 

 

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DaveNF2G

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Aug 1, 2022, 6:49:58 AM8/1/22
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I did not realize that the Windows .exe posted on GitHub was not completely built.

Philip Knowles

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Aug 1, 2022, 7:09:31 AM8/1/22
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It’s not that it’s not completely built. It’s a bit like Bluetooth – Windows knows about Bluetooth and will read from a Bluetooth device but if you don’t have a driver for the Bluetooth dongle it can’t read from it – rtl-433 reads and decodes raw data from rtl-sdr or SoapySDR so you need to install one of those as an interface (driver) to the SDR. The USB driver just sets itself up as a TV/radio receiver not as a data device.

 

SDR>USB driver>RTL-SDR  or SoapySDR>rtl-433

 

Bear in mind that most git-hub stuff is Linux based too.

 

In your case I would seriously recommend a Raspberry Pi running Mosquitto and rtl-433 as the interface and then an MQTT front end to display the data. If you are running stuff intermittently and don’t need MQTT you could run RealVNC on Windows to log into the Pi and run in the rtl-433 in the Linux terminal.

 

BTW, the answer to you .conf question a while back is that you don’t need a conf file but you have to enter the parameters every time you run rtl-433 if you don’t

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