In an effort to better proportion the heating system in his house, Mike Stirling decided to use Conrad FHT8V wireless thermostatic radiator valves (TRVs) to control heat distribution in zones. He decided to analyze the valve’s 868 MHz control signals using his RTL-SDR dongle and GNU Radio. After discovering that the protocol uses simple on-off […]
Tag Archives: GNU radio
Live DVD includes Ubuntu + GNU Radio
Per our friends at RTL-SDR.com, there is now a live DVD downloadable which includes Ubuntu Linux 12.04 along with GNU Radio and other pre-installed SDR related programs. The necessary libraries for OsmoSDR, RTL-SDR and HackRF hardware are also included. The Live DVD is only available for 64-bit CPUs. Check out the release notes for more […]
Announcing PyBOMBS GNU Radio installation tool
The GNU Radio development team announces their new Python Build Overlay Managed Bundle System (PyBOMBS). If you’ve ever tried to install GNU Radio for use with the RTL-SDR or other software defined radio, you know it can be a hit or miss proposition. Depending on your OS and distro, it an be either flawless or […]
Tutorial: Kali Linux with GNU Radio, GQRX and RTL-SDR dongle
If you’ve tried to install GNU Radio from binaries without success, this video from NeedSec is for you. He demonstrates how to intall GNU Radio on Kali Linux from source, and confirms operation of the RTL-SDR dongle using GQRX radio receiver software.
GNU Radio and GSoC
The GNU Radio project has announced their participation in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 as an independent organization. GNU Radio is a free library for developing Software Defined Radio applications and is written mainly in C++ and Python. Its used by various SDR hardware including the USRP family, Funcube and RTL-SDR dongles. For […]
Authoritative GNU Radio training videos
Want free, in depth training on GNU Radio from an authoritative source? Then you’ll want to spend four hours viewing this series of videos by Tom Rondeau, KB3UKZ, the GNU Radio project manager since 2009. Tom provides a detailed, in-depth study of this Software Defined Radio experimental and development system. These videos are taken from […]
GNU Radio internals – how to use the framework
The availability of inexpensive SDR hardware such as the RTL-SDR and Funcube Dongle help to focus interest on the GNU Radio open source signal processing software. In this video from CCC Camp 2011 Marius Ciepluch delivers a case-study on how to analyze 802.15.4 (alias Zigbee) with USRPs on a real-time protocol (for send time verification, […]
GNU Radio conference 2011
The GNU Radio project has announced plans for their first conference, to be held September 14-16, 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania. What is GNU Radio? GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides the signal processing runtime and processing blocks to implement software radios using readily-available, low-cost external RF hardware and commodity […]