rtl-sdr

Software defined radio driver for Realtek RTL2832U

DVB-T dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U can be used as a cheap software defined radio, since the chip allows transferring the raw I/Q samples to the host. rtl-sdr provides drivers for this purpose.

The default Linux driver managing DVB-T dongles as TV devices doesn't work for SDR purposes and clashes with this package. Therefore you must prevent the kernel from loading it automatically by adding the following line to your system configuration:

(kernel-arguments '("modprobe.blacklist=dvb_usb_rtl28xxu"))

To install the rtl-sdr udev rules, you must extend 'udev-service-type' with this package. E.g.: (udev-rules-service 'rtl-sdr rtl-sdr)

Versions: 2.0.1
Website: https://osmocom.org/projects/sdr/wiki/rtl-sdr
Licenses: GPL 2+
Package source: gnu/packages/radio.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install the latest version of rtl-sdr as follows:

guix install rtl-sdr

Or install a particular version:

guix install rtl-sdr@2.0.1

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.