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- #HACKRF ONE PICTURE SOFTWARE#
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- #HACKRF ONE PICTURE MAC#
Install Homebrew, and run `brew install gnuradio`. Easier said than done, but it is possible. GNU Radio on Linux works well with the HackRF, but running Linux on this iMac is an awkward experience, for various reasons. With the Audio Sink, you can hear these transmissions
#HACKRF ONE PICTURE SOFTWARE#
Booted with ‘nomodeset’ kernel option to fix missing video on the iMac Retina, installed gnuradio and gr-osmosdr packages, then executed gnuradio-companion from the command-line.įollow the steps in lesson #1 to create a software FM radio.
#HACKRF ONE PICTURE MAC#
To keep it separated from OS X in the internal SSD of the iMac, I installed on a USB external drive using Mac Linux USB Loader (not UNetbootin). This was not successful - I could not get anything out of the HackRF over the VM, likely due to bandwidth limitations in virtualizing USB. Add an OsmoCom source and WX GUI FFT Sink, as described in the course. Plug in the HackRF, then attach it to the guest OS by selecting it under Devices > USB > Great Scott Gadgets HackRF One. There is a GNU Radio Live DVD with everything needed preinstalled. I highly recommend Michael Ossmann’s online course Software Defined Radio with HackRF for an introduction to SDR with the GNU Radio toolkit.įor expediency I first tried to run GNU Radio under Linux in a virtual machine via VirtualBox on OS X.
Here the solution with Node.js is non-obvious, so I’ll take a break from Node.js and turn to another, well-developed SDR platform instead: GNU Radio. Now the next step would be to tune and demodulate a signal, my goal is receiving FM broadcast radio (the so-called “hello world” of SDR). My unofficial hackrf-spectrograph repository: The only current dependent of hackrf-stream published on NPM is hackrf-spectrograph, which shows a nifty ASCII art (using babar) FFT (using stft): Hackrf-stream provides a convenient Node stream API interface.
Now that we are receiving data, what can we do with it? Node-hackrf $ npm install node-hackrf $ node bin.js -rxgraphįound 1 HackRF devices HackRF version is 2014.08.1 With these changes, the Node.js module can connect to the HackRF device and receive transmissions: Fortunately it is easy to fix, submitted pull request #4 to node-hackrf.
#HACKRF ONE PICTURE DOWNLOAD#
> install /private/tmp/node_modules/hackrf > prebuild - download prebuild WARN install Prebuilt binaries for node version 0.12.7,1.0.4,1.8.4,2.4.0,3.0.0 are not available prebuild ERR! configure error prebuild ERR! stack Error: Invalid version number: 0.12.7,1.0.4,1.8.4,2.4.0,3.0.0ģ.1.0 is actually io.js, a fork of Node.js since merged back into what is now Node v4 and laterĭowngrading to 3.1.0 works, but using the latest version of Node.js - 6.2.1 at the time of this writing - would be preferable. There is a hackrf module on NPM, developed by and Install:īut it fails trying to download prebuilt native code: node-hackrfįirst tested with Node.js as I had it already installed on my system and am comfortable with the JavaScript development environment. Even though there are technically better devices at higher cost, there is plenty one can do with the mid-range HackRF. The HackRF is a good compromise (at least until the upcoming LimeSDR): only $300 for a 20 MHz bandwidth and frequency range of 10 MHz to 6 GHz (advertised range, but may be able to actually tune slightly lower and higher). Ettus B200 USRP has a much greater bandwidth of 61.44 MHz and wider frequency range of 70 MHz to 6 GHz, but is quite expensive for someone just getting started. The cheapest devices generally have a low frequency range and low RF bandwidth: the RTL-SDR can pickup only 3.2 MHz from 22 MHz to 2.2 GHz. Picture from HackRF? There are many software-defined radio device s to choose from, from the $20 RTL-SDR to ~$1000+ USRP.