Packages Soapysdr Module Osmosdr

soapysdr-module-osmosdr

SoapySDR driver module for OsmoSDR and MiriSDR hardware

• Version recorded: 0.2.5
• Categories: sdr-hardware
• Upstream: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyOsmo/wiki

What it does

Makes the devices supported by the OsmoSDR driver library usable through SoapySDR, so SoapySDR software sees them without needing OsmoSDR-specific code.

Why you would want it

Only if you have the hardware. Do not confuse it with gr-osmosdr, which is the GNU Radio block that reaches many different devices -- the names are close and the two do quite different jobs. This is a device driver shim; that is a framework block.

Before it will work

OsmoSDR hardware and its driver library, which apt pulls in.

How it installs

• apt: soapysdr-module-osmosdr

Known problems

The hardware was never widely produced and the software around it is maintained rather than developed. Debian built this and soapysdr-module-rfspace from the same soapyosmo source package until 0.2.5-9 (2025-10-21) disabled the RFSpace module; from then on this one ships everywhere and the RFSpace one only where the older source remains.

Keeping it current

• probe: apt policy
• strategy: apt_upgrade

Where to get help with the software itself

The Pothosware project.

Source: catalog/packages/soapysdr-module-osmosdr.yaml