V1.25 No Device shown

[Mark]

Hi

I had to re-install v1.25 on my Raspberry Pi4 and now I can't see any device to be clicked to run Sdrglut :-(

I followed all the indicated steps but it looks like the Soapy module is not loading the SDRPlay module.

ButI haven' t touched the SoapySDR stuff since the previous installation.

Any suggestion ?

73s

Marco

[Dale Ranta]

You do not have the SdrPlay routines. They come install on the PI4 systems that you get from SDRplay. Otherwise, you need to install them -

If you did the install, you should have SDRplay_RSP_API-Linux-2.13.1.run on your system. 

If not download - SDRplay_RSP_API-Linux-2.13.1.run from

 https://www.sdrplay.com/downloads/

and run it.

chmod +x SDRplay_RSP_API-Linux-2.13.1.run

./SDRplay_RSP_API-Linux-2.13.1.run

You may need to add these line to the blacklist file (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf)-

        blacklist sdr_msi3101

        blacklist msi001

        blacklist msi2500

If cannot find SDRplay_RSP_API-Linux-2.13.1.run.You will need to do a full install of - API 3.07 

[Mark]

Well, since I already run v1.24 and have SDR++ and CubicSDR working fine with my RSP1 I supposed it is OK.

Anyway I re-run the installation of API3.07 with 

SDRplay_RSP_API-ARM32-3.07.2.run

and it looks OK, apart a Warning message

This is what I get:

***************************

API Version: 3.07

If not installing as root, you will be prompted for your password

for sudo access to the /usr/local area...

The rest of the installation will continue with root permission...

Udev rules directory found, adding rules...Done

Installing files into /usr/local (/lib, /bin, /include)...

Installing /usr/local/lib/libsdrplay_api.so.3.07...Done

Installing header files in /usr/local/include...Done

Installing API Service in /usr/local/bin...Done

Installing Service scripts and starting daemon...Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of sdrplay.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.

Done

 

Service has been installed and started. This device should be rebooted

before the service is used. After the installation script finishes,

reboot this device.

 

To start and stop the API service, use the following commands...

 

sudo systemctl start sdrplay

sudo systemctl stop sdrplay

 

SDRplay API 3.07 Installation Finished

 

Would you like to add SDRplay USB IDs to the local database for easier

identification in applications such as lsusb? [y/n] y

This script will add the SDRplay IDs to the local USB database

and will require sudo permissions. Enter your password if prompted

 

Database already contains SDRplay devices

SDRplay IDs added. Try typing lsusb with an SDRplay device connected.

If the USB IDs get updated from the central reprository, just type

the following command to add the SDRplay devices again...

 

sdrplay_usbids.sh

 

Installation Finished

pi@raspberrypi:~/SDRPlay-API $ 

*********************************

When I give: lsusb I can see the RSP1 connected.

Unfortunately I do still have the same problem.with SdrGlut

[Dale Ranta]

I think that we are back to the problem of two version of SoapySDR being installed- try -

sudo find / -name "libSoapySDR*"

and see if it shows up twice.

[Mark]

Oh Boy

Yes I think this is the case.

In fact I do see;

pi@raspberrypi:/ $ sudo find /usr  -iname libsoapysdr*

/usr/share/doc/libsoapysdr0.6

/usr/share/doc/libsoapysdr-dev

/usr/local/lib/libSoapySDR.so

/usr/local/lib/libSoapySDR.so.0.8.0

/usr/local/lib/libSoapySDR.so.0.8

/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSoapySDR.so.0.6

/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSoapySDR.so

/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSoapySDR.so.0.6.1

As you can see there is v0.8  in /usr/local/lib that, I guess, is used by the other SDR software (SDR++ and CubicSDR).

[Mark]

Good news

i should have dug into the Closed Issues like this:

SdrGlut doesn't see SDRPlay #20

So far I uninstalled v0.6 and re-built SdrGlut according to your past suggestions and now I have SdrGlut V1.25 running happily :-)

The problem is that I'm using a pre-built image of SDRPlay on my Raspi4 so the conflict between the pre-existent libsoapysdr v0.8 and the v0.6 I installed as per the SdrGlut instructions.

Hope this can be useful to someone else here :-)

73s