SoapySDR doesn't find my sdrplay RSP1 device on linux

[Herve Coulisse]

Hello,

I have a trouble with my sdrplay RSP1 device. It works very well on windows platform but I would like to use it on linux.

lsusb returns :

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1df7:2500 SDRplay RSP1

so, OS recognize the device

SoapySDRUtil --info
######################################################
##     Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library     ##
######################################################

Lib Version: v0.8.0-g351896d3
API Version: v0.8.0
ABI Version: v0.8
Install root: /usr/local
Search path:  /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8
Module found: /usr/local/lib/SoapySDR/modules0.8/libsdrPlaySupport.so (0.3.0-208f95d)
Available factories... sdrplay
Available converters...
 -  CF32 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
 -  CS16 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
 -  CS32 -> [CS32]
 -   CS8 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8, CU16, CU8]
 -  CU16 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8]
 -   CU8 -> [CF32, CS16, CS8]
 -   F32 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
 -   S16 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
 -   S32 -> [S32]
 -    S8 -> [F32, S16, S8, U16, U8]
 -   U16 -> [F32, S16, S8]
 -    U8 -> [F32, S16, S8]

SoapySDRUtil --probe="driver=sdrplay"
######################################################
##     Soapy SDR -- the SDR abstraction library     ##
######################################################

Probe device driver=sdrplay
[WARNING] Can't find label in args - use 'lsusb' to make sure the OS can see the RSP
Error probing device: Can't find label in args - use 'lsusb' to make sure the OS can see the RSP

Following troubleshooting in sdrplay API, this type of error appears when OS doesn't recognize the device, but it is not the case regarding lsusb response.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards.

[righthal...@gmail.com]

My RSP1 works on Windows 7, Windows 10, MacOS, and the raspberry Pi.

It does not work on ubuntu 18.04 and ubuntu 20.40. They have broken it on uBuntu - it use to work on 18.04.

[Herve Coulisse]

Hello,

I have linux mint 19.1 with kernel 4.15.0-135-generic

It is based on 18.04 ubuntu. I don't know why it failed as lsusb do recognize the device.

[Richard Bown]

Hi 

if it helps on my website is a .deb for gqrx for the RSP1

https://g8jvm.com/Projects/Projects.html

I' used it on linux mint 20, ubuntu 20 libs

just open it with Gdebi, it should load all the dependencies, which I think are the same for SoapySDR

see if it helps

Richard

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[Herve Coulisse]

Hello Richard,

Thanks for your site.

I have now another issues related to gqrx librairies but unfortunately it doesn't solve my SoapySDR RSP1 problem.

The linux mint 20 is based  on ubuntu 20 not 18.04.

73's

Herve

[Richard Bown]

OK Herve

you did mention 

"it does not work on ubuntu 18.04 and ubuntu 20.40." 

Richard

On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 14:36 -0800, Herve Co

[Herve Coulisse]

Hello Richard,

For now I have just tested on mint 19.1 based on ubuntu 18.04.

I did not tested on ubuntu 20 yet.

73's,