User mode driver for Airspy HF+

This repository contains host software (Linux/Windows) for Airspy HF+, a high performance software defined radio for the HF and VHF bands.

http://www.airspy.com/airspy-hf-plus

How to build host software on Windows:

For VisualStudio 2013 or later:

• git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf.git host
• Download https://github.com/libusb/libusb/releases/download/v1.0.20/libusb-1.0.20.7z
• Extract libusb-1.0.20.7z to host directory
  • You should have host\libusb-1.0.20
• Download ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip
• Extract pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release.zip to host directory
  • You should have host\libpthread-2-9-1-win
• Navigate to src and Launch airspyhf.sln with VisualStudio 2013 or later
• In Visual Studio, choose Release, x86 or x64 then Build Solution

For MinGW:

git clone https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf.git host

cd host

mkdir build

cd build

Normal version:

cmake ../ -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

Debug version:

cmake ../ -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DLIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0/

make

make install

How to build the host software on Linux:

Prerequisites for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian):

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev pkg-config

Build host software on Linux:

wget https://github.com/airspy/airspyhf/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

cd airspyhf-master

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON

make

sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

Users of non-Debian-based distrbutions (Fedora, etc), or distributions that don't use the plugdev group may need to modify the udev rules file to use the uaccess paradigm. This can be performed by editing the udev rules file:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/52-airspyhf.rules

... and replacing the contents with: ATTR{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTR{idProduct}=="800c", SYMLINK+="airspyhf-%k", TAG+="uaccess" Device access should then work for users logging in locally, but may not work for ssh logins, or systemd services.

Clean CMake temporary files/dirs:

cd airspyhf-master/build

rm -rf *

Principal authors:

Ian Gilmour [email protected] and Youssef Touil [email protected]

http://www.airspy.com

This file is part of Airspy HF (with user mode driver based on Airspy R2, itself based on HackRF project see http://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/).