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HackRF Beta Program
Welcome to the HackRF beta program! This page is intended as a starting point for people participating in the beta. If you have received a beta unit, please read this page.
For background information about the beta program, see Giving Away HackRF.
The purpose of the beta program is to find bugs. There will be bugs. There may be hardware design bugs. There may be firmware bugs. There may be software bugs. There may be manufacturing bugs. With your help, we should be able to find the most important bugs, enabling better HackRF platforms in the future.
The primary goal of the HackRF project is to produce an open source hardware design for general purpose SDR. With your help, we can ensure the quality of the design.
The HackRF beta hardware platform is Jawbreaker. For an introduction to the device and information about how to prepare it for external antenna connection see the Jawbreaker page.
Jawbreaker is a development tool. It has not been tested for compliance with regulations governing transmission and reception of radio signals. You are responsible for operating Jawbreaker in a manner permitted by the laws of your country.
The primary software library required to work with Jawbreaker is libhackrf. To use any software that supports HackRF, you must first install libhackrf.
Software known to support HackRF:
- hackrf-tools: command-line utilities for HackRF
- GNU Radio: THE open source SDR software framework, with HackRF support provided by gr-osmosdr
- SDR#: A graphical SDR receiver application
Linux distributions known to include libhackrf:
- none yet, but Pentoo will likely be the first!
The best way to help test HackRF is to use it for a radio application that interests you. If you aren't sure where to start, try getting familiar with GNU Radio, especially GNU Radio Companion. Search the web for interesting SDR implementations and see if you can reproduce them with HackRF.
Please subscribe to the HackRF-dev mailing list. This is the preferred way to share test results or ask questions. Additionally, you may want to join the #hackrf IRC channel on freenode. Specific bugs and feature requests may be added to the Issues List though they should probably be discussed on the mailing list or IRC first.