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Soapy SDR plugin for Airspy

The Soapy Airspy project provides a plugin module to use the Airspy device within the SoapySDR API and software that supports SoapySDR.

SoapyAirspy table of contents

• Installers
• Dependencies
• Building Soapy Airspy
• Probing Soapy Airspy

Installers

Pre-built installers for various systems are available through the Pothos SDR environment.

• https://github.com/pothosware/PothosCore/wiki/Downloads

Dependencies

• Install libairspy - https://github.com/airspy/host/wiki
• Install SoapySDR: https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki

Or install airspy packages on Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install airspy libairspy-dev

Building Soapy Airspy

The CMake build system will locate SoapySDR development files on your system. The plugin module will be built and installed into the SoapySDR modules directories.

git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyAirspy.git
cd SoapyAirspy
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Probing Soapy Airspy

SoapySDRUtil --probe="driver=airspy"