RTLSDR Scanner

Copyright 2012 - 2015 Al Brown

al [at] eartoearoak.com

A cross platform Python frequency scanning GUI for the OsmoSDR rtl-sdr library.

More details can be found here.

A basic user manual is also available.

Tested on:

• Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
• Windows 8.1 (x64)
• Ubuntu 12.04 (x86)
• Ubuntu 12.10 (x64)
• Ubuntu 13.04 (x64)
• Ubuntu 14.04 (x64)
• OS X Snow Leopard
• OS X Mountain Lion

Installation

Installation instructions are found here.

Windows executables for x86 and amd64 platforms are available on GitHub.

Requirements

• Python 2.7.x
• wxPython
• matplotlib
• numpy
• Pillow
• rtlsdr
• pyrtlsdr
• pyserial

To test for missing libraries run rtlsdr_scan_diag.py

Windows 64 bit modules can be found here

Usage

python -m rtlsdr_scanner [file]

file - optional saved scan file to load

Main Window

• Start - Scan start frequency
• Stop - Scan stop frequency
• Mode - Single or continuous scanning
• Dwell - Sampling time spent on each step
• FFT Size - FFT size, greater values result in higher analysis precision (with higher sizes dwell should be increased)
• Live update - Update the display on each step (caution only use with small scans and low dwell times)
• Grid - Show a grid on the scan

File Menu

• Open... - Open a saved scan
• Save As... - Save a scan
• Export... - Export a scan to a CSV file
• Properties.. - Scan information

Edit Menu

• Preferences - Set dongle gain, calibration, Local Oscillator and the sample bands to use

Scan Menu

• Start - Start a scan
• Stop - Stop a scan

Tools Menu

• Compare - Compare two previously saved scans
• Auto Calibration - Perform a crude calibration of the dongle to a known signal (this should be a continuous, steady signal)

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 3.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.