For those features, GQRX for Mac is highly recommended. GQRX is a good way to discover radio frequencies that can be used with LocalRadio. LocalRadio is intended for use as in-home entertainment, using a local area network with a private IP address. It has not been tested with a public IP address, particularly for security testing, therefore it. Installing GQRX on Mac OSX - rtl-sdr.com March 6, 2015 at 2:28 am mode receiver GUI that is similar to the Windows software SDR#. Over on smittix’s blog, the author has created a post showing how to install the latest version of GQRX on OSX. Gqrx is an open source software defined radio receiver (SDR) powered by the GNU Radio and the Qt graphical toolkit. Gqrx supports many of the SDR hardware available, including Airspy, Funcube Dongles, rtl-sdr, HackRF and USRP devices. See supported devices for a complete list.
Gqrx is distributed as source code as well as binary packages. The supported platform is Linux and to some extent Mac OS X.
A recent version of gqrx is probably already available through the official software channels of various Linux distributions and it is recommended to investigate that first. If those packages are too old or lack hardware support you can try some of these alternate options:
- Gqrx source code (SourceForge)
- Generic Gqrx binary package for 64 bit linux (SourceForge)
- Experimental AppImage for 64 bit linux (SourceForge)
- Gqrx binary package for Mac OS X, experimental build and known to have problems. Built on Mac OS X 10.11 but might work up to 10.15 (SourceForge)
On Mac you can also install the latest version through Macports and probably also other package managers like Homebrew. I can only provide very limited support for Mac OS X.
macbook-jturk> gqrx -r
Mac OS; Clang version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53); Boost_105800; UHD_003.008.005-MacPorts-Release
gr-osmosdr v0.1.x-xxx-xunknown (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.7.1
built-in source types: file fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd sdrplay hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy
Using Volk machine: avx_64_mmx_orc
gr::log :INFO: audio source - Audio sink arch: osx
gr::log :INFO: audio_osx_sink0 -
Using output audio device 'Built-in Output'.
... which is the current default output audio device.
Changing the default output audio device in the System Preferences will
result in changing it here, too (with an internal reconfiguration).
BookmarksFile is /Users/jturk/.config/gqrx/bookmarks.csv
Number of audio input devices: 1
Number of audio output devices: 2
get_devices started
mir_sdr_Init: starting hardware initialization
mir_sdr_Init: gR=60dB fs=2.048MHz rf=200.000MHz bw=1.536MHz if=0.000MHz
mir_sdr_2500_Init(2)
mir_sdr_usb_Init()
mir_sdr_usb_USB DLL: Revision 0.1.1
Opened device with idVendor = 0x1df7 idProduct = 0x2500 fwVersion = 0x0206
Msg: libusb_get_configuration() = 1
mir_sdr_2500 attachFn(hnd, 0x0206, 1, 0)
mir_sdr_usb_SetInterface(2)
mir_sdr_2500_GetFnAddr()
mir_sdr_2500_GetFnAddr()
mir_sdr_2500_Init: fnaddr = 4
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x05, 0x00000c)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x00000e)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x00, 0x000200)
mir_sdr_2500_Init: adjusting squelch trim 0x1, rx gating enable 1, tx_trim 0, reg2 = 0x4801
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x02, 0x004801)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x28bb85)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x08, 0x00fa80)
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mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x07, 0x000005)
initHw: Register7 = 0x000005
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x04f440)
initHw: Tuner Register0 = 0x04f440
mir_sdr_2500_StreamInit(0, 393216)
mir_sdr_usb_StreamInit(0, 393216)
mir_sdr_2500_StartRx()
mir_sdr_usb_FlushLocalBuffer()
mir_sdr_SetFs: Sample Freq requested 2047999.978065
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x04, 0x0624dd)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x03, 0x01181f)
mir_sdr_SetFs: Fs->FsNomHz+dFsHz=2048000.0+0.0Hz=2048000.0Hz FsToggle->1
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x000003)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x213e82)
mir_sdr_SetRf: f->200000000.000Hz (int=21 frac=3e8 afc=0) fSynth:3200000000.000
mir_sdr_SetRf: Rf->RfNomHz+dRfHz+LifHz+Lif1Hz=200000000.0+0.0+0.0Hz+0.0Hz=200000000.0Hz RfToggle->1
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x032241)
mir_sdr_SetGr: GR->60[36,24,0,0] gRset->0x224 DCCALmode=4 DCCALspd=1 GrToggle->1
setToggleStates: initialising sampNum=0x000201fa, gainSetting=0x224, FsToggle=0, RfToggle=1, GrToggle=1
setToggleStates: initialising Fs=2047999.978, Rf=200000000.000, Gr=60
mir_sdr_Init: already initialised
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Device count: 1
mir_sdr_2500_StopRx()
mir_sdr_2500_StreamUninit()
mir_sdr_usb_StreamUninit(1)
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mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x08, 0x006280)
mir_sdr_2500_Uninit()
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x063000)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x09, 0x00800e)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x03, 0x091300)
mir_sdr_2500_SetRegister(0x05, 0x000004)
mir_sdr_usb_Uninit()
Releasing interface in mir_sdr_usb_Uninit()
Closing driver handle in mir_sdr_usb_Uninit()
Closed driver handle in mir_sdr_usb_Uninit()
Closed eventThread in mir_sdr_usb_Uninit()
Exited libusb in mir_sdr_usb_Uninit()
mir_sdr_usb_Uninit() completed
sdrplay=0,label='SDRplay RSP'
get_devices end