[Hackrf-dev] Why Hackrf only one time run and stop

Dominic Spill dominicgs at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 17:06:40 EST 2017


On 13 February 2017 at 14:50, Alexandru Csete <oz9aec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On 13 February 2017 at 14:38, Alexandru Csete <oz9aec at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The gqrx website uses PPAs to provide packages that are newer than the
> >> ones that come with Ubuntu. The hackrf library has not been upgraded
> >> to this latest release and is therefore incompatible with your device
> >> if it has firmware 2017.02.1.
> >>
> >> Not sure how handle this upgrade properly... Would have been nice if
> >> libhackrf could handle both old and new firmwares :-(
> >
> > Libhackrf can handle both old and new firmware.  I've tested this
> > hackrf_transfer with every combination of 2015.07.2 and 2017.02.1
libhackrf
> > and firmware.
> >
> > The only requirement for upgrading firmware with newer versions of
libhackrf
> > is to use newer features.
>
> Ah ok, that's cool. I must have misread it. I am going to upgrade
> hackrf in our PPA and it should then work fine.

That would be great, thank you.

Rustu, once hackrf has been updated in the gqrx repository, please try
updating and try the hackrf_transfer command again.

Thanks,
  Dominic
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