AirSpy

A tiny and efficient software defined radio.

This repository contains host software (Linux/Windows) for AirSpy, a project to produce a low cost, open source software radio platform.

AirSpy: http://www.airspy.com

How to build host software on Windows:

Prerequisites for mingw:

• cmake-2.8.12.1 or more see http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
• libusb-1.0.20 or more see https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z
• For Windows OS less than Vista Install Windows driver for AirSpy hardware or use Zadig see http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwdi/files/zadig
  • If you want to use Zadig select AirSpy USB device and just install/replace it with WinUSB driver.

Note for Windows build: You shall always execute airspy_tools from Windows command shell and not from Cygwin or Mingw shell because on Cygwin/Mingw Ctrl C is not managed correctly and especially for airspy_rx the Ctrl C(abort) will not stop correctly and will corrupt the file.

For VisualStudio 2013 or later:

• git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyone_host.git host
• Download https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z
• Extract libusb-1.0.20.7z to host directory
  • You should have host\libusb-1.0.20
    • Inside this directory there is README.txt, libusb-1.0.def and some directories
• Download ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip
• Extract pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip to host directory
  • You should have host\libpthread-2-9-1-win
    • Inside this directory there is lot of README files and some directories (dll, include, lib)
• Launch host\libairspy\vc\airspy_2013.sln with VisualStudio 2013, choose Release and Build Solution

For MinGW:

git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyone_host.git host

cd host

mkdir build

cd build

Normal version:

cmake ../ -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

Debug version:

cmake ../ -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

make

make install

How to build the host software on Linux:

Prerequisites for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian):

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev pkg-config

Build host software on Linux:

wget https://github.com/airspy/airspyone_host/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

cd airspyone_host-master

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON

make

sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

Clean CMake temporary files/dirs:

cd airspyone_host-master/build

rm -rf *

How to build host software on FreeBSD.

Get the prerequisites (from root)

pkg install git cmake

Build

git clone https:\\github.com\airspy\airspyone_host.git

cd airspyone_host

mkdir build

cd build

cmake .. -DLIBUSB_LIBRARIES=/usr/lib/libusb.so

make

(from root) make install

Add users to group plugdev

(from root) useradd -a -G plugdev <user>

Principal authors:

Benjamin Vernoux bvernoux@airspy.com and Youssef Touil youssef@airspy.com

http://www.airspy.com

This file is part of AirSpy (based on HackRF project see http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/).